Kotkin's first two magisterial volumes on Stalin. Ben Pimlett's Harold Wilson.
― calzino, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
It's probably 20 years since I read it but I thoroughly enjoyed Dotson Rader's Tennessee Wiliams biog Cry of The Heart. It was very funny and gossipy and sad which seemed quite fitting.
― calzino, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
more of a memoir tbf - as in the title!
― calzino, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
Taylor Branch's three-volume MLK bio, highest possible recommendation
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 April 2021 23:43 (three years ago) link
d mac I did read a book by O'Toole once decades ago and can't remember wtf it was called, it was in rambling luvvie speak and I remember a passage about his dad working as a bet settler in a pre-legal bookies or something like that and it was quite good.
― calzino, Friday, 9 April 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link