But non-auto-biographies!! So many history books are the high level "this happened in that year caused by whatever-just-trust-me" while biographies dig into how the world actually worked. Especially if they're set in the last few hundred years and not the last 30, there's a tremendous amount of primary sources to base the writing without over politicizing the topic. What kind of history won't have a survivor bias? Is this an excuse to ignore history entirely?
> I also try to read as many anti-biographies, i.e. people who don’t like the subject
That's introducing it's own bias. But you might as well read The Power Broker if you're going that direction. Fascinating story.