Manegarm
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Currently reading some literary portrayals of the lives of famous Politicians.
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Starting with Lincoln
Then it's FDR and Kennedy.
Then we hop over to Europe to read about Fredrick the Great and Bismark followed by Churchill a few Swedish prime ministers and Field-Marshall Mannerheim.
Anyone interesting I should add besides Skinnyrumcakes last incarnation? Hitler is just so overplayed.
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Well, if it is a literary portrayal you are interested in, I highly recommend Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey. It has brief biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon. Great reading!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_Victorians
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Hitler changed the world more than ANY politician in the 20th century. He is clearly the most significant person.
Now I'm not saying he was good at all but he massively changed the world
Other such figures are Alexander the Great, Caesar, Augustus, Napoleon, and people like Buddha, Carl Marx, Jesus, and Muhammud
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I liked Gore Vidal's "Julian" and "Creation."
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Read Suetonius's 12 Caesars. It's an easy read and is written in the style of a scandalous tell all. It may be 1850 years old, but it stands up well.
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Have you considers Glenn Beck's portrayals of the US Founding Fathers?
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Cool guys, feel free to add more
I'm also going to brush up on my Voltaire, Roseau, Machiavelli, Wittgenstein and Marx too.
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Robert Caro's "The Power Broker", about Robert Moses, is the best biography I ever read. Caro also wrote a biography of LBJ which is very good.
Taylor Branch has a 3 volume biography of Martin Luther King that's well worth reading to get a sense of the times.
Barbara Tuchman, best known for her WW! history...The Guns of August...wrote a very nice biography of General Joseph Stilwell...Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45. It's as much about the American experience in China as it is about Stilwell.
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Scarne posted:
Have you considers Glenn Beck's portrayals of the US Founding Fathers?
I might as well listen of die fahne hoch while reading mein kampf.. ffs.
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