biography
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He makes liberal use of a biased Roman biography that likewise reveals its point of view in its title: “The Life of Marcus Antoninus, Philosopher.”
He played for drinks at the Chart Room to treasure divers, pot smugglers, beachcombers and politicians, according to his biography.
Madariaga’s response was exquisitely catty, describing Morison’s biography of Columbus as “a most interesting Life from the yachtsman’s point of view.”
O'Farrell read extensively about the playwright but said there is still "awful lot about his biography we don't know".
From BBC
All of these biographies offer a full accounting of Roosevelt’s virtues and faults without resorting to caricature.
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