Great men, good biographies

mikee

mikee

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Allright, for my english class we have to read any biography thats a novel as a summative. I want to take this oppurtunity to learn about someone interesting that I don't know much about. Any recommendations? Here are a few people I was thinking:

Confucius

Socrates

Ghandi

Freud

Hitler but not really

And yeah I dunno that kind of thing...

Does anyone know who has a very interesting life? Or just of any specificially good biographies? Help me out.

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Churchill definately, but another good one would be Benjamin Franklin

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Karl Marx would be interesting.

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Ghandi, i'm telling you. you'd have so much to write about. the guy opposed british imperial rule in india during the 20th century in a unbelievable, non-violent way.

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because he didn't have any posessions. all he wore was a sheet. it was part of the method of his revolt. he's an amazing man, and should have got the title 'man of the century', but oh no, einstein had to get it. why? he's american! duh! but that's besides the point.

ghandi dude.

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^Thank you, what did you think Einstein was from Jersey or something?

We need a little more information about your interests before giving you suggestions.

 
For example pick one of these categories that most interests you and I'll try and help you out:

-Artists and Entertainers

-Titans of Industry

-Leaders/Revolutionaries

-Scientists/Thinkers

 
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he let an intereting life

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Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller

David Hackworth

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Im interested in like ancient civilisations, philosophy, and thinkers and such. And, I dunno just poepl ewho did great things, ghandi sounds kind of interesting aha,

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im gonna have to stick with

Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller or

David Hackworth

both great military books, youll never wanna put them down

'....a ninja skier probly came by and whacked him with his pole.... thats my guess' -nordas-
 
but I think I know alot about hitler already, I would rather learn about someone I know not much about like Socrates who sounds very interesting.

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yeah im quite sure there was a book on the desert fox :)...i actually think it was called erwin rommel

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iono man, if ur into action and a reallllly good read i strongly suggest pullers or hackworths, puller being the most decorated marine in history and hackworth being the most decorated army guy...some of the stories they tell are absolutely unbelievable

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the marlyn manson is great, so ive herd. i dont really read books.

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read Schindler's List. that's a good one.

but yeah, as for einstein... sure he was born in germany, but that doesn't make him german. he did his schooling in zurich i think and became a swiss citizen. later, he moved back to germany, became a citizen there for like 15 years, then chose to rescind his citizenship and emigrated to america to take the position of professor of theoretial physics at princeton, which is where he became an american citizen from thereon out.

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i think the only real 'americans' are the native indians. sure i live here, but i am a quarter norwegian, a quarter scottish, and half german. there is no american in there.

 
if you can do an autobiography do hunter s. thompson. he is a famous gonzo journalist who commited suicide back in february. he's written several books and there is a lot of info on him. have you ever seen the movie fear and loathing in las vegas?

 
If you are looking for thinker/philosophers/etc from earlier times, DaVinci would probably be interesting (especially since the was a show creating his drawings - the flying machine flew, and with all the hype over the DaVinci code). Galileo would probably be pretty interesting too (especially with his interaction between science and religion which basically ruled life in ealier times).

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^ i definatly agree with da vinci but ive already one about ghandi and it was very very good sorta eye opening id suggest that

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yea but da vinci is kind of played out, everyone does him

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