Yet More Biographies…..
Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA by Randall Woods
The first, was one of the works cited by Paul Cartledge in his own biography of Alexander the Great. Fox is an eminent historian at Oxford, now emeritus and his biography was a an important work in the field.
The next two were gifts from my own students. Now that I have Colonel Roosevelt, I will have to read the prize-winning trilogy as I have copies of the first two volumes (somewhere). The impression Morris made with his Reagan biography, Dutch, was very strange, but this will probably redeem him.
Not very familiar with Woods, but William Colby was a fascinating, controversial and contradictory DCI whose intelligence career spanned the OSS and much of the Cold War, dying in retirement under mysterious circumstances.
Added to the pile…..
June 18th, 2013 at 4:01 pm
I picked up a biography of James Burnham recently. Not sure when I will get to it. The former communists who were the founders of modern conservatism are a fascinating group. http://www.amazon.com/James-Burnham-Struggle-World-Life/dp/1882926765
June 20th, 2013 at 12:07 am
I read the Trilogy by Edmund Morris, could not put it down, very readable history, my favorite was the volume titled T.Rex, just brillant.