Biographies – Page 5

January 3, 2019

Review: What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard P. Feynman

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am particularly happy I chose to take up this book as the first one to read this year…

December 14, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 I really enjoyed this, mostly due to Mr Weatherford’s perspective in putting himself in the shoes of the people…

December 2, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 Hamilton, the arch-Federalist, is a typically maligned fellow in the history of these United States as it probably would…

December 1, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 I have been a fan of the writings of Mr Shiba for nearly a decade now — and I…

November 25, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 I had barely no impression of Mr Attlee before I started this book — neither did I know much…

November 22, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 Most of us probably have some idea of various Greek gods and also their heroes — after all, who…

November 18, 2018

Rating: 5 out of 5 I am biased — I am absolutely biased — in favour of this kind of personal histories, especially when…

November 4, 2018

Rating: 2 out of 5 Oh Peter, Oh Peter Pond, what a figure you are… Mr Gough’s work makes you sound like a misunderstood…

October 20, 2018

Rating: 3 out of 5 This is a brief glance at the Rothschild family bringing them up to date, or at least as up…

October 9, 2018

Rating: 4 out of 5 Another one of the Bill Rowe personal histories, this was an enchanting piece describing the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s…