Aren't there other great biographies and biographers as interesting as well including the following:

-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.