Biography Titles
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How a Couple of Bungling Sociopaths Became Bonnie and Clyde
by Steven Biel
United States History, American History, U.S. History, BiographyIn their time, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker attracted much less attention than star criminals like John Dillinger. Steven Biel plots the strange path by which this pair of ne’er-do-wells became the stuff of myth and legend.
Jack Kerouac and the Making of the Beat Generation
by John Tytell
United States History, American History, U.S. History, BiographyJack Kerouac’s On the Road in 1957 burst onto a fifties America supposedly safe and stuffy, and announced the coming of the “beat” generation. This new and wildly disorganized view of life seemed to extol amorality and self-gratification. Here is an insightful mini-biography of the beats’ icon.
The Formative Years of Adolf Hitler
by Alan Bullock
European History, Military History, Biography, BiographyFrom Alan Bullock’s incomparable biography: Hitler’s formative years, from his birth in 1889 to the end of the First World War in 1918. It sets the stage for Hitler’s later strategies and programs by explaining the sources of his ideas and the influences of his early life experiences.
Reflections on the Father of the Atomic Bomb
by Jeremy Bernstein
United States History, Military History, American History, U.S. History, U.S. Government, Biography, BiographyJeremy Bernstein remembers the “father” of the atomic bomb—a man unsure of his identity and scarred by the famous government hearing that took away his security clearance.