This whole series is produced by Harper Collins and first began appearing in the mid-2000s. There’s about a dozen or so short biographies from world figures like the three listed here, but also Balanchine, Caravaggio, Machiavelli, Beethoven, de Tocqueville, Freud, Muhammad, and Francis Crick. I previously read and reviewed the book on Machiavelli, and mostly thought it was good. What I began to notice more about the series is that the writers are primarily popular historians (or not historians at all), with a few examples […]
Paul Johnson (1), Christopher Hitchens (1), Michael Korda (1)
George Washington: The Founding Father by Paul Johnson
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
Ulysses S Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda