Sentences with phrase «excellent biography of»

I was able to combine public law with literature by reading John Buchan's The 39 Steps and then William J. Galbraith's excellent biography of our literary GG, John Buchan: Model Governor General.

It is very well researched by Scott Eyman who also wrote an excellent biography of director Ernst Lubitsch, «Laughter in Paradise».

I have mentioned Glenn Lovell's excellent biography of director John Sturges, Escape Artist, before.

I'm sure I'm not the only MP to have been influenced by the life of John F Kennedy and Robert Dallek's excellent biography of one of the most iconic figures in American politics, if not of the 20th century.

This quote came from Alister McGrath's excellent biography of C.S. Lewis.

There is an excellent biography of Bob by Mark Frost called «The Grand Slam» that I recommend to one and all golfer and non golfer alike.

Likewise three excellent biographies of Auden have recently been published, each capturing his warmth: Charles Osborne's W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979); Edward Mendelson's fine Early Auden (Viking, 1981); and Humphrey Carpenter's acclaimed W. H. Auden: A Biography (Houghton Muffin, 1981).

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Both Bethge's work, and the excellent biography by Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, give a clear vision of the man, his style of life, his activity, his hopes, fears, aspirations, faith, and loyalty to Jesus Christ.

* There is now a superb biography of Charles S. Peirce, with an excellent concluding essay on his thought by the historian, who is also a capable philosopher, Professor Joseph Brent, who has become a close friend, although I had not heard of him until a year or so ago.

In his excellent religious biography of the President, The Faith of Barack Obama, author Stephen Mansfield spends several pages exploring whether Obama has been «born again.»

The Old Rail Splitter was, in many ways, a man of natural grace whose words and actions show ¯ as Lord Charnwood noted in his excellent 1916 biography ¯ a «most unusual sense of the possible dignity of common men and common things.»

Cannadine has produced an excellent concise and incisive biography which sets in a wider context «the dominant British public figure of her generation».

Margot Robbie and Allison Janney are excellent in this atypical biography that reaches moments of such absurdity (with characters who are stupid beyond belief) that it becomes surreal and hilarious sometimes, benefiting from the way it plays with the contradictions seen in the interviews.

Without the necessary time for a full biography, and without the focus on shoring up the film's most potent thematic material, Long Walk to Freedom feels disappointing, despite a good cast of actors and excellent production values.

Biography / Event Resources Following are a handful of excellent resources for developing a list of famous Black Americans that students can select from:

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

Joanne Freeman offered an excellent review of a biography of a former first lady, unusual talent, and remarkable character, Louisa Adams, and Joseph Ellis did the same for a biography of her easy - to - admire, hard - to - like husband, our sixth president, John Quincy Adams.

Here, you will find an excellent historical summary and biographies of many figures who helped break the racial barrier in baseball.

He is also an excellent writer and a voracious reader of global politics, biographies, and fiction anchored in history and travel adventures.

Several excellent new biographies will hit shelves this fall, including Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life (Oct. 5); Jane Leavy's The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood (Oct. 12); Michael Korda's Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia (Nov. 16); and the Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol.

A lively biography that does an excellent job of bringing Tarbell and her times crisply into focus.

This excellent photo - biography portrays Wells as an outspoken journalist who never compromised and who attacked blacks and whites with equal fervor at any sign of accommodation to racial inequity.

A cruel instinct she was paying for hours later, for she was now plagued with a hefty boredom and the melancholy of finishing an excellent book — a biography of John Wesley Powell — and had nothing new to read.

This excellent, richly illustrated biography tells the story of Madame C. J. Walker, a turn - of - the - century African American entrepreneur.

This year served up a bumper crop of excellent biographies for youth, and these 10 titles, reviewed in Booklist from June 2015 to May 15, 2016, are the best of the best.

An excellent example of picture - book biography.»

In 1550, Michelangelo's younger friend and colleague Giorgio Vasari published the first edition of his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (usually shortened to Lives of the Artists), a magisterial collective biography of the greatest Italian masters of the last three centuries.

The biography writing service of writingabio.com is not that excellent although they have made it on time.

This is a continuation of our «Ben Graham Value Screens» series, where we look at investment opportunities based on the criteria that Ben Graham used and that is outlined in his (excellent) biography, The Einstein of Money.

An all - new feature to the PS4 release is the character gallery which includes the character's name, a detailed biography of the character and a picture of the character with a total of 33 characters which are unlocked as the player progresses through the story, although it is an excellent feature it would have been even better if instead of a still picture; there would have been a fully 3D character model with a camera which could rotate around the character and zoom in or out, alongside some of each character's most humorous dialogue.

There are no multiplayer features or online leaderboards, but what is there in the story will certainly have you coming back for a second playthrough as it is such an entertaining and fun experience, while the character gallery feature provides a reward factor by unlocking character biographies by progressing through the story, alongside a printed comic book included in the retail release which provides a prologue chapter to the story of the game and while it is not playable content; it is excellent fan service which is a classy effort to show appreciation towards Broken Sword fans.

In Phoebe Hoban's excellent biography, Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty, she details how, as early as art school, Neel declared herself to be the «anti-Mary Cassatt,» meaning she was not interesting in producing the fawning, fuzzy odes to domestic life that were expected of women painters of the era.

The curators have chosen not to focus on the somewhat troubling details of the artist's personal life — she spent much of the 1960s hospitalized because of paranoid schizophrenia — but fortunately there is also an excellent biography, Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art by Nancy Princenthal, available for those interested in Martin's fascinating life.

However, if you want to follow the story of the science in more detail, and with more focus on the science and less on the biography, then I'd recommend physicist Spencer Weart's excellent hyperlinked account online:

One of the saddest chapters of Bill Kaplan's excellent biography Canadian Maverick — the Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand, is his account of Justice Rand's post SCC appointment as the founding Dean of the University of Western Ontario's Law School.

There are three excellent biographies that should be of real assistance — those of Laskin, Dickson, and Wilson — but they are not.

Biographies and autobiographies of people who have successfully overcome similar hurdles to ones you are going through serve as an excellent way to delve into the inner thoughts of those who are willing to share you you have arrived at where you wish to be.