Lists of Bests: FrancisFrownsalot's "Biography" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/58468 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:43:56 GMT en-us 0 50 53 50 0 Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3534965 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3534965"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01zynfFQj-L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dale Peterson</div> Dream Lovers: The Magnificent Shattered Lives of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/852665 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/852665"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0446517682.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dodd Darin</div> Shot in the Heart http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10266 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10266"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385478003.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikal Gilmore</div> The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13527 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0449911713.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laurence Leamer</div> Mozart: A Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513551 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1513551"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060883448.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Maynard Solomon</div> Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28562 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28562"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0967673747.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V66861062_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean P. Sasson</div> JFK, reckless youth / Nigel Hamilton http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4442539 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nigel Hamilton</div> Cobb: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2080640 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2080640"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565121449.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Al Stump</div> The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2450966 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2450966"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/081297042X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1114575501_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ruth Brandon</div> Lincoln http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19324 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19324"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/068482535X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V47025583_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Herbert Donald</div> Genie: a Scientific Tragedy http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1224 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1224"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060924659.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056414479_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russ Rymer</div> Anne Sexton: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18859 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18859"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679741828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Diane Middlebrook</div> Into the Wild (MTI) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2768417 <div id="position">13</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jon Krakauer</div> The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323594 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5323594"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MASFTQ5ML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Honor Moore</div> The Life of Emily Dickinson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412825 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/412825"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674530802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Richard B. Sewall</div> God: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18879 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18879"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679743685.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Miles</div> THE UNRULY QUEEN: LIFE OF QUEEN CAROLINE http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5354382 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5354382"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21A0F40N63L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by FLORA FRASER</div> Joan of Arc: In Her Own Words http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1437077 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1437077"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1885983085.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Willard Trask</div> NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE: The Battle of Waterloo--and the Great Commanders Who Fought It http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644589 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2644589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0025178105.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Evangeline Bruce</div> The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and Her Family. http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2944860 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fraser, Rebecca. Bronte</div> The Wives of Henry VIII http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83372 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/83372"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067973001X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192801_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Antonia Fraser</div> Private Demons: The Life of Shirley Jackson http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/167642 <div id="position">22</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Judy Oppenheimer</div> The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18679 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18679"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/067972463X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1057192800_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gertrude Stein</div> All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence (Vintage) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3037035 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fox Butterfield</div> The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/867613 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/867613"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0674953592.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464471_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Burston</div> At His Side; The Last Years of Isaac Babel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1259644 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1259644"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/188364237X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A. N. 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Walzer Leavitt</div> Ancestral Passions: The Leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1428521 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1428521"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684824701.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056465484_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Virginia Morell</div> Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479270 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/479270"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0674485262.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bert Hölldobler</div> Diane Arbus: A Biography http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865989 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a 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12px;"> by Suetonius</div> Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3884360 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3884360"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518oEn%2BeOOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Janet Gleeson</div> The Diana Chronicles http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3730894 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3730894"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11Y3MRKy8nL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tina Brown</div> Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5495877 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a 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