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Biographies and Memoirs

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Mike Nichols

By Mark Harris

Biographies and Memoirs

One of The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time • A National Book Critics Circle finalist • One of People's top 10 books of 2021 • An instant New York Times bestseller • Named a best book…

Luckiest Man

By Jonathan Eig

Biographies and Memoirs

The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak…

Long Time Gone

By Carl Gottlieb

Biographies and Memoirs

David Crosby's long-awaited autobiography chronicles the rock era from the '60s through the '80s, while telling the gripping and brutally frank tale of his life from the heights of superstardom with the group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young to the…

Late Admissions

By Glenn C. Loury

Biographies and Memoirs

“A zestfully written book, packed with humor, pathos and hard-earned wisdom.” —John McMillian, Washington Post A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race, and belief. Economist Glenn…

Kochland

By Christopher Leonard

Biographies and Memoirs

Cuốn sách viết về lịch sử của đế chế Koch Industries và qua đó phác họa bức chân dung nền kinh tế Mỹ kể từ thập niên 1960. Câu chuyện về Koch cũng là câu chuyện của ngành năng lượng…