Tag: biographies

  • My Guilty Pleasure Reading List

    21 Nov 2022 » 1 min read about lists, Reading & Books

    It is getting close to December which means close to our end-of-year holiday which means time I spend reading for guilty pleasure after a year of serious, hardcore reading. I’ve started to prepare a list of what to read and few days ago, on Twitter, I asked for some recommendations: For me, guilty-pleasure reading1 usually…

  • Some Notes on The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro

    18 Feb 2022 » 3 min read

    I am fascinated by presidential biographies. Part of the fascination stems from a love of history, and part from an interest in the mechanics of a job that no one is ever qualified for, until they’ve held it. I’m particularly fond of in-depth, multivolume biographies. I thoroughly enjoyed Edmund Morris’s 3-volumes on Theodore Roosevelt. And…