Reading Robert Caro was one of the great pleasures of my life, I can't recommend him highly enough.
The only probem is that once you read him, you're spoiled. Nobody else really compares to his force of writing and depth of research.
The only probem is that once you read him, you're spoiled. Nobody else really compares to his force of writing and depth of research.
-James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
-Carl Sandburgs 3 or 4 volume biography of Lincoln.
- Isaac Deutscher's massive biography of Trotsky.(The Prophet).
-Duff Cooper's Talleyrand.
-Tom Cliffs 3 volume biography of Lenin.
- William Taubman biographies of Khrushchev and Gorbachev.
-William Manchester biography of General MacArthur.(American Caesar)
-Barbara Tuchman biography of General Stilwell. (Stillwell and the American Experience in China.)
-Anthony Burgess, Biography of Shakespeare.
The Power Broker is also excellent and absolutely worth reading, but in my view not quite as good as the LBJ series.