Biography category: 101305 books
by Diana Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
Celine Dion is a Canadian singer, actress, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Dion is known for her powerful, technically skilled vocals. As a child Celine Dion dreamed of being a performer, emerging as a teen star in the French-speaking world after Rene Angelil, her manager and future husband, mortgaged...
by David Baker
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Jerry Seinfeld is an American comedian and TV star. Jerry Seinfeld spent almost 15 years grinding out a career as a stand-up comedian before hitting it big in TV.
He was a successful comic, the kind that regularly appeared on the Tonight Show and David Letterman....
by Bloomberg Businessweek
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Originating from the bestselling special-edition tribute Bloomberg Businessweek Steve Jobs 1955-2011, here is Bloomberg Businessweek's biography of a boundary-breaking thinker and endlessly astute businessman. From his birth and adoption by the Jobs family to his days in the California counterculture...
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known...
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
The personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha”—for fans of the HBO documentary Becoming Warren Buffett
Here is the book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha...
by David Nasaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
**A New York Times bestseller!
The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie**
Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful...
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography... until now.
Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family...
by Stewart Rubenstein
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Glenn Beck (born February 10, 1964, Mount Vernon, Washington, U.S.) is an American conservative political commentator and television and radio personality, perhaps best known for hosting the talk show Glenn Beck (2009–11) on the Fox News Channel. He is the current host of a talk-radio show, “The...
Empire of Imagination
Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Amazon Best of the Month pick
Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive biography of geek and gaming culture's mythic icon, Gary Gygax, and the complete story behind his invention of Dungeons and Dragons.
The life story of Gary Gygax, godfather of all fantasy adventure games, has...
by Joseph Taglieri
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK If you picture the life and home of one of the world's richest, most powerful men with fifteen bedrooms and a room devoted to swimming in gold (a la Scrooge McDuck) you’ll be shocked with self-made billionaire Warren Buffett. The 81-year-old man lives a modest life...
A Full Cup
Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
An in-depth biography of Sir Thomas Lipton, the founder of Lipton Tea-a portrait of a remarkable self-made man and intrepid sailor.
Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he became rich beyond his wildest dreams....
Hayek's Challenge
An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history...
by Lanny Ebenstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Born the son of immigrant parents, Milton Friedman went on to become a major figure during the resurgence of American conservatism. As an adviser to the Reagan administration and a widely read columnist, he played a vital role in shaping government policy and public opinion while he made headlines...
Summary of Becoming Steve Jobs
by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Summary of Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli | Includes Analysis Preview: So much has been written about the late Steve Jobs that Brent Schlender and his co-author, Rick Tetzeli, wisely begin their biography with a prologue that explains why they wrote...