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Ask HN: What biographies/memoirs to read in 2018?
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#2'Shoe Dog' added in my list
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#3Two works lauded by many that lived up to the hype for me by changing my understanding of science and the modern world are
David Wootton's biography of Galileo: http://www.watcheroftheskies.org/
Janet Browne's biography of Darwin: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/10/biography.high...
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#4Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson is a gem.
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#5Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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#6Shrill by Lindy West and Hunger by Roxane Gay. They are both memoirs by excellent women writers talking about being a woman and about being fat in American society.
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#7For one of interest to entrepreneurs that is not immediately obvious is the autobiography of Henry Bessemer [1]. The problems he faced (and solved) getting his inventions used still has value today [2].
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#8“Skunk Works” by Ben Rich.
It’s showing its age a little bit in places, but seems as pertinent as ever.
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#9Biographies I enjoyed in 2017:
"The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism"
"Worldly Philosopher The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman"
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#10This one:
"A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market" by Edward O. Thorp