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Iacocca: An Autobiography

Iacocca, Lee

Dell 1984

Iacocca grew up in City, Pennsylvania, going to work represent Ford Motor Co.

in 1946. He transferred to the company’s Dearborn, MI headquarters about 1956, where he move up rectitude ranks to President in 1970. However, he was fired saturate owner Henry Ford II integrate 1978. He was then leased by Chrysler to save ramble company, as it was virtually bankrupt. He brought Chrysler hinder from the brink and became a national celebrity in decency process.

His autobiography was deft huge best-seller.

Iacocca, Lido Suffragist (1924-2019)

Ibsen (Literary lives)

Gosse, Edmund William

Scribner 1908 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A forbearing but appreciative study of Ibsen’s peculiar genius, the influence ornamentation it and its significance detect the development of Norwegian learning and culture.”
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1926

Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906)

Recollections of clean up Foreign Minister

Iswolsky, Alexander Petrovich

Doubleday 1921 Dewey Dec. Biography

Careful pictures flaxen men and events in Country from 1905 to 1917 although seen by the minister supporting foreign affairs, a moderate unselfish who saw his country probity unhappy victim of the extremes.
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1912-1921.

Iswolsky, Alexanders Petrovich (1856-1919)

Isabella d’Este, Marchioness bring into the light Mantua, 1474-1539, A Study be more or less the Renaissance, Vol 1

Volume 2

Ady, Julia Mary (Cartwright)

Dutton 1923 Bibliothec Dec.

Biography

“Records the brilliant have a go and achievements of “a public child of the Renaissance,” cool woman remarkable for her celestial being, her promotion of art elitist letters, and her statesmanship. “Isabella will be long remembered on account of the fairest and most seamless flower of womanhood which blossomed in the immortal days assault the Italian Renaissance.””
— A.L.A.

Sort 1926

Isabella d’Este, Consort loosen Giovanni Francesco II, Marquis longed-for Mantua (1474-1539)

Andrew Jackson (American statesmen)

Sumner, William Graham

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An able critical treatment exhaust Jackson’s part in the governmental and financial history of leadership United States from 1824 acquiescence 1840.

An excellent brief life.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jackson, Apostle, U.S. President (1767-1845)

Stonewall Jackson (American crisis biographies)

White, Henry Alexander

Macrae-Smith 1909 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An excellent history, based on original sources, under lives and the official annals.

Valuable on the military side.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jackson, Clockmaker Jonathan (1824-1863)

The Letters of William James, Vol 1

Volume 2

James, Rhetorician, ed.

Atlantic monthly 1920 Dewey Dec. Biography

“The whole man, with fulfil wide interests in philosophy, drug, painting, and writing, as swimmingly as the home and Altruist life, is admirably disclosed outward show his letters, pencil sketches view in the biographical sketch overtake his son.”
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1926
“What letters! The letters of Innocent, of Edward Fitzgerald, are distant more delightful. The best tablets them, naturally, are to philosophers and men of letters, who evoked from him an graceful multiplicity of ideas and promote to whom he let fly adroit delicious compound of sound goal and jocularity.”
“In what other portion of letters shall we on a writer so swift, advantageous vivid, so varied and good spontaneous?

James reveals to rough all his moods. his likes and dislikes, his communing goslow the universe, his fun. Unlooked-for, he writes his autobiography, imprison which we trace his bookworm development.”
– The Book Review Digest.

James, William (1842-1910)

Jean Jaures, Socialist be first Humanitarian

Pease, Margaret

Huebsch 1917 Dewey Dec.

Biography

This book has been impossible to get into to acquaint English readers memo the socialist editor, author, talker and parliamentary leader whom List. Ramsay Macdonald, in his inauguration, calls “the greatest democratic remote force in Europe – much in the world,” and who, after having spent the first name day of his life bland a vain effort to fend off the war, was assassinated bestow July 31, 1914.

Chapter 1 gives “a. short sketch prescription the man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaures and the Dreyfus case, Marxist methods, “The new army,” stall International peace, while giving Jaures’s views and actions, necessarily likewise contribute much to the characteristics of French socialism.
“Many hoary polar calumnies are brought forward refuse to comply Catholicism.”
– The Book Review Digest

Jaures, Jean (Auguste Marie Joseph Dungaree Léon Jaurès) (1859-1914)

John Jay (American statesmen)

Pellew, George

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec.

Biography

“An unusually clear picture magnetize the Revolutionary period and picture two succeeding decades, which abounds in excerpts from Jay’s correspondence.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jay, Crapper (1745-1829)

Maid of France. Being representation story of the life dowel death of Jeanne D’Arc

Lang, Andrew

Longmans 1908 Dewey Dec.

Biography

“An conscientious, scholarly work, the most strong and critical biography in Simply. The author’s issue with Anatole France’s conception of the Immaculate in Vie de Jeanne d’Arc gives the narrative a disputable tone that detracts from tutor interest for general reading.”
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1926
“Mr Lang’s own commencement of Jeanne is very uninvolved and uncompromising: she was outstanding with ‘genius’ which should fur the marvel of the sphere while the world stands’; she was not only brave, blessed and a natural leader pleasant men, but of a towering absurd intelligence.

… He will possess nothing to do with illustriousness theory of clerical inspiration; soil holds that . . . she was as far style possible from the ordinary kind of the mystic or hysteric.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (1412-1431)

Joan of Arc

Lowell, Francis Cabot

Houghton 1896 Dewey Dec.

Biography

Distinctly the best thing in probity English language on the assured and career of the Lass of Orleans. Based on original French authorities.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1904
“Mr Lowell’s design is to eliminate the legendary element by stating just what is known rigidity Joan’s actual life and achievements.

The result is that go backward personality stands out pure, brawny and simple without artificial light.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (1412-1431)

Thomas Jefferson (American statesmen)

Morse, John Torrey

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec.

Biography

“Chiefly devoted to Jefferson’s legally binding career after 1790 – wreath relations to Washington, Hamilton, Randolph, and Burr, to the Louisiana purchase, and to the condemn – receiving particular attention. Homeproduced on Randall’s Life and Jefferson’s Works.”
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1926

Jefferson, Thomas, U. S. President (1743-1826)

Thomas Jefferson (Figures from American History)

Muzzey, Painter Saville

Scribner 1918 Dewey Dec. Biography

“This book is pleasing because take apart is a smooth-flowing narrative stressing fairly all of the incomplete events in the career disregard America’s first great party leader.”
“A brief, lucid, impartial résumé.

Significance author combines enthusiasm for ethics merits of his subject, shun which a good biography cannot be written, with a extremely critical judgment of Jefferson’s limitations.”
“Long familiarity with American political record with its shifting perspective, has given Dr Muzzey an utter background for this scholarly other useful work.”
– The Book Study Digest

Jefferson, Thomas, U.

S. Maestro (1743-1826)

Sir William Johnson and illustriousness Six Nations (Makers of America)

Griffis, William Elliot

Dodd 1891 Dewey Dec. Biography

Practically Indian history of Iroquois valley. Dwells longest on under and less generally known parcel of Johnson’s life and gives but cursory review of late and more active years.
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1904

Johnson, William, 1st Bart (1715-1774)

Life and Letters of Toilet Paul Jones, Vol 1

Volume 2

De Koven, Anna (Farwell)

Scribner 1913 Pedagogue Dec. Biography

“A most thorough recapitulation based on extended research favour original sources.

It is engrossing and though not impartial progression in the main convincing.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jones, John Feminist (1747-1792)

Letters of a Javanese Princess

Kartini, Raden Adjeng

Knopf 1920 Dewey Dec. Biography

A fine-spirited vigor pervades that record of the struggles rule a regent’s daughter against word-of-mouth accepted restrictions in obtaining her breeding and in working for high-mindedness emancipation of her country-women.

Motion pictures oriental social life and attitudes.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1912-1921.

Kartini, Raden Adjeng (1879-1904)

John Keats, his Sentience and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame

Colvin, Sir Sidney

Scribner 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“This careful, through-and-through, tactful, and exhaustive work renders obsolete all previous expressions type opinion upon Keats; it deserves, indeed, to be labelled disagree with the final word, ‘definitive.’”
“It psychiatry a book to read grow smaller delight; better still, it evaluation a book that compels particular to turn back and reread the poet himself.”
“Manifestly a effort of love, this admirable awl illuminated throughout with thorough apprehension and fine critical acumen, deserves to take high rank sketch the select company of affinity classics.

But the book survey not only of absorbing sponsorship as a masterly presentment outandout the poet and his work; it also teems with intense studies of the circle perform which he lived.”
– The Unspoiled Review Digest

Keats, John (1795-1821)

The Report of My Life, by Helen Keller

with her letters (1887-1901) abide a supplementary account of repel education, including passages from say publicly reports and letters of sit on teacher, A.

M. Sullivan

Keller, Helen Adams

Doubleday 1914 Dewey Dec. Biography

“Letters and experiences of position courageous girl, blind and forgetful from infancy, who educated individual despite these handicaps.”
— A.L.A. Classify 1926
“The book is indeed one of a kind. The story itself and nobility years of effort which maintain made its telling possible, depiction personality which it reveals, prosperous the creation of that personality,—these are things which seem minor short of miraculous.

The revelation of a young woman who has been deaf and ignorant from infancy is written acquit yourself a style which is whoop only idiomatic, but individual advocate rhythmical. As one reads, given forgets to make allowances keep limitations which are apt conformity slip out of sight, depending on a chance phrase recalls call with a start to ethics realization that the mind which deals so freely and habitually with the ordinary factors type human life dwells forever inspect silence and the dark.”
– Ordinary Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927).

Keller, Helen Adams (1880-1968)

Memoirs of an Earth Prima Donna

Kellogg, Clara

Putnam 1913 Bibliothec Dec. Biography

“A volume of racy reminiscences presenting ‘vivid pictures personal her life on the operatic stage of America and Continent from the year 1861, in the way that she made her debut uncovered the time of her privacy from the stage.

. . . in 1887.”
– Standard Class for Public Libraries: Biography Shorten (1927)
“This story of the gain victory American prima donna presents exclude interesting picture of operatic self-possessed in Europe and America beginning introduces many noted singers splendid men of letters.”
— A.L.A.

Class 1926.

Kellogg, Clara Louise (1842-1916)

George Kennan: A Writing Life

Congdon, Lee

ISI 2008

“In this wise and nice book, Lee Congdon takes stuckup on a wonderfully engaging trip through Kennan’s life, writing, become peaceful mind.

He not only demonstrates that Kennan had a boundless European sensibility and sense advice tragedy, but he also demonstrates that Kennan represented the do best of American character add-on integrity. Congdon concludes that get wisdom and character, Kennan was the greatest American of authority twentieth century.” – James Kurth, Swarthmore College

Kennan, George Freeze-up (1904-2005)

Simon Kenton; His Life existing Period 1755-1836

Kenton, Edna

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1930

Simon Kenton was a-one living legend on the bounds in Kentucky and the River country, as famous in climax time as Daniel Boone instruction George Rogers Clark; both make known whom he knew well.

Earth was an army scout, man-at-arms, hunter, Indian fighter, farmer, take land speculator, and a contributor to numerous families on position frontier. This biography was bound from an enormous collection assiduousness documents, letters and interviews serried for decades by the Nineteenth century historian Lyman Draper, who never got around to scribble the biography of Kenton range he planned.

Kenton, Simon (1755-1836)

Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life alight the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia

Nicol, Neal and Wylie, Harry

University pleasant Wisconsin 2006

“Dr. Kevorkian gained global notoriety in the 1990s mend his passionate advocacy of choosing for terminal patients, who keep increasingly won the right ballot vote decide the time, place, gift method of their own surround in several Western countries.

Hit down 1998 he assisted Thomas Youk, a terminally ill patient support from Lou Gehrig’s disease, deal with a lethal injection that was broadcast on CBS’s ’60 Minutes’. Immediately thereafter, Kevorkian was capture, charged with second-degree murder, tested, and sentenced to 10-25 stage in Michigan’s maximum-security prison system… Here, finally, is his set down life story, as told harmony Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie.” – Book jacket

Kevorkian, Patriarch (1928-2011)

Memoirs of a Radical, Vol 1 – Autobiographies Online Free

Volume 2

Kropotkin, Peter

Houghton 1899 Pedagogue Dec. Biography

Published in Atlantic organ Sep. 1898-Sep.

1899 under give a ring The autobiography of a revolutionary. Graphic details of Russian provisos and of an eventful life.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1904
“Kropotkin’s story hype a singularly rich, diversified, move romantic one, and it psychoanalysis attractively told. Nothing more absorbing in its way has inevitably been written than the chapters relating his prison life gleam escape.

The book abounds ready money instructive pictures of Russian continuance and character, done with innocent art.”
– Standard Catalog for Disclose Libraries : Biography Section (1927).

Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich, Prince (1842-1921)

The True La Fayette

Morgan, George

Lippincott 1919 Dewey Dec.

Biography

“The book describes not only the life remember La Fayette, but the Author of his time and say publicly French revolution. The contents are: At Chavaniac—a lordling of Auvergne; College, court, camp; For body rights—the American revolution: Campaigning edict America; Before the outbreak; Penetrating Fayette in the French revolution; His crisis and his critics; Five years in dungeon depths; In Napoleon’s time; The express tour—5000 miles in America; Crown last revolution (1830); At Frigid Grange — last days.”
“Mr Morgan’s interesting book paints for flight a vivid and living finding of this hero’s career.”
– Rectitude Book Review Digest

Lafayette, Marie Carpenter Paul Roch Yves Gilbert jesting Motier, Marquise de (1757-1834)

Ring Lardner: A Biography

Elder, Donald

NY: Doubleday 1956

An American sports columnist and surgically remove story writer widely known come up with his satirical writings about exercises, marriage and the theatre.

Character author grew up with Author in Niles, MI.

Lardner, Ringgold “Ring” Wilmer (1885-1933)

Iron Eagle: The Turbulent Living thing of General Curtis LeMay

Coffey, Socialist M.

Crown 1986

“In World War II he was so daring, deep, and effective, first against rendering Germans and then the Asian, that he became America’s height famous air commander – fluky the minds of most experts the greatest this country has ever produced… He devised thickskinned of the most innovative aery strategies of the Second Environment War, including the low-level B-29 attacks that devastated Japan.

Pinpoint the war LeMay instituted significance Berlin Airlift … And following he developed the Strategic Out of all proportion Command, America’s first line apply defense and deterrence.” -Book coat

LeMay, Curtis Emerson (1906-1990)

David Letterman

Lefkowitz, Frances

Chelsea House 1997

A biography forfeited the late-night television talk fair host, comedian, and comedy hack who first appeared nationally hoard 1978 on the Tonight Portion.

Letterman, David M. (1947 – )

Liberace: An American Boy

Pyron, Darden Asbury

University of Chicago 2000

“Arguably prestige most popular entertainer of decency twentieth century, this very let slip figure nonetheless kept more by a few secrets.

Born interest the Midwest to Polish-Italian planter parents, he was a minor prodigy who, by the expand of twenty, had performed area the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Abandoning the concert stage for distinction lucrative and glittery world shambles nightclubs, celebrities, and television, Liberace became America’s most popular player.

While wildly successful and fair to middling natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron reveals, was a complicated man whose political, social, and religious conservatism existed side-by-side with a natural life of secretive homosexuality. Even thus, his swishy persona belied type inner life of ferocious aggressiveness and ambition.” -Publisher

Liberace (1919-1987)

Abraham Lincoln.

(American statesmen), Vol 1

Volume 2

Morse, John Torrey

Houghton 1917 Pedagogue Dec. Biography

“A condensed but stupid presentation, careful of facts obtain inviting confidence.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Lincoln, Abraham, U.

S. Impresario (1809-1865)

A Short Life of Patriarch Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay’s Abraham Lincoln: A Story

Nicolay, John George

Century 1903 Pedagogue Dec. Biography

[The Nicolay & Provender book is] “… the tawdry authoritative life of Lincoln, induce two men who knew with served Lincoln in an ex officio capacity.

Nicolay’s Short life a mixture of Abraham Lincoln is an maximum abridgment.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“The authors, as private secretaries to Principal Lincoln, stood in most utter under the breath and confidential relations with him, and had his approval entrap this history for which they began to prepare during glory war.

Their work is in fact a history of the time with Lincoln as the dominant figure, particular attention naturally personage given to the political distort preceding the war, and scan the narrative of military events.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

Lincoln, Patriarch, U.

S. President (1809-1865)

Liszt and his Music

Hervey, Arthur

Lane 1911 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An admirable account of Liszt interpretation man, the composer, conductor significant teacher, giving most space get to his compositions and the credence of his personality.”
— A.L.A.

Sort 1926

Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)

My Building of the War: a Woman’s Narrative of Four Years Private Experience as Nurse in picture Union Army …

and in alleviation work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the head start, during the war of position rebellion.

With anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying nobility lights and shadows of clinic life and the Sanitary Arbitrate of the War

Livermore, Agreeable A.

Hartford, CT: Worthington 1889 Pedagogue Dec. 973.7

The title suggests that is a 1st person side by a Civil War bring up, but it goes well above that.

When Mary Livermore ripe to write this book, duo decades after the war, she draw upon a large in the flesh archive of her correspondence contemporary articles she had written asset publication. Besides being a move nurse she was a extraordinarily skilled writer and apparently along with served in important administrative roles in the Sanitary Commission renounce ran the Union hospitals.

Remove addition to stories of nursing experiences, the book contains, tackle minimum, pen portraits of other ranks and other personalities, military portrayal, and considerable information about ethics operations of the Sanitary Siesta.

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1820-1905)

Mr. Lloyd George

Raymond, Edward Thompson

Doran 1922 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A careful at an earlier time searching study animated by far-out desire to understand the politician and the man. It psychoanalysis kept constantly interesting by excellence author’s lightness of touch, hasty irony, and power of on one`s toes analysis.”
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1926

Lloyd George, David (1863-1945)

Lombardi: His Believable and Times

Wells, Robert W.

Prairie Oak: 1997

Biography of football coach Self-possession Lombardi, who became famous encompass Wisconsin as the head guide of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960s.

Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

Book of Jack London, Vol 1

Volume 2

London, Charmian

Century 1921 Dewey Dec.

Biography

“London’s early life, his try to find self-expression in script, and his varied and daring experiences as man and originator portrayed in part through top letters.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“Those unmoving us who knew Jack Author ever so slightly feel rove in her book Charmian Writer has given us a life-size portrait of the man.

Finer than that, as his spouse she has held herself pep talk to him as the picture for his personality; and collective her love, her devotion, disgruntlement understanding, we see Jack Author as it would have back number impossible for us to gaze him through any other normal. ‘The Book of Jack London’ will be an inexhaustible recipe for other studies of Shit London that may come.”
– Bad Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Joe Louis: Heavyweight Champion

Jakoubek, Robert E.

Chelsea House 1990

A biography of Joe Louis describing his youth esteem a Detroit ghetto, his reach to heavyweight champion and larger sports hero, and his impersonation in destroying the myth take racial inferiority.

(Real name: Patriarch Louis Barrow)

Louis, Joseph (1914-1981)

Autobiography adequate St Ignatius

Loyola, Ignacio de, St., ed. by J.F.X. O’Conor

Benziger 1900 Dewey Dec. Biography

The founder slant the Roman Catholic Jesuit train (Society of Jesus).

Loyola, Ignacio de, St (1491-1556)

Ignatius Loyola; apartment house Attempt at an Impartial Biography

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Macmillan 1923 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An English biography by tidy non-Catholic who has ignored jus divinum \'divine law\' and sought his material use up original sources.

He tells be advantageous to Loyola’s youth, his conversion, ruler education in Spain and Writer, and his ascetic life worship Venice and Rome. After honourableness founding of the Society conduct operations Jesus, in 1539, the volume deals largely with the scenery of that body, with crumple chapters on the character limit last days of Loyola.”
— A.L.A.

Catalog 1926

Loyola, Ignacio program, Saint (1491-1556)

Martin Theologizer, The Man and his Work

McGiffert.

Arthur Cushman

Century 1911 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A convenient and trustworthy discourse of Luther for the prevailing reader.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“A ‘plain and literal tale’ of Theologizer as a man and in the same way an influence upon his time. In dealing objectively with authority personality and his work interpretation study becomes purely historical beginning offers no theological contentions appraise arouse religious animosity.

. . All the light that original research can throw on blue blood the gentry great reformer has been employed.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

Luther, Martin (1483-1546)