Who Should I Do My Autobiography/Biography Essay On?

[AlFrankenFan]

I'm stuck...I can't figure out who's bio/autobio to do my essay on! It has to be a 350+ page bio/autobio on any historical or current person. Suggestions please!!!

[ClassWarrior]

1. You.

[JohnKleeb]

2. Kerry

get the boston globe or brinkley book if you do him. RFK is pretty interesting too.

[AlFrankenFan]

11. I just might

Why didn't it ever occur to me? :shrug:

This is why I post things like this :D

[JohnKleeb]

13. Be sure to read the Globe version if you want his senate career too

Tour of Duty is mostly about Vietnam.

[AlFrankenFan]

14. Yeah I actually read Tour of Duty

a while back when I read of it in the LA Times. Very good book and I enjoyed it a lot, and this is coming from someone who was not very interested in war.

[JohnKleeb]

16. I am not a fan of war myself but I enjoy war novels

[AlFrankenFan]

21. I've learned to love them...my favorites

are the Jeff and Michael Shaara books on the Civil War. I love that period of time in our history :-)

[JohnKleeb]

22. You know I read more WWII but the Shaara family books became

good movies, I really enjoyed Gettysburg and to a lesser extent Gods and Generals. Jeff Sharra wrote a book on the revolution I believe called the Glorious Cause.

[pagerbear]

3. John Kerry

Paul Wellstone
Bill Clinton
Hubert Humphrey
FDR

[AlFrankenFan]

17. Is there a bio on Wellstone? Could "Conscience of a Liberal" count?

Hmmm...where's my hardcover...
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...ah ok. Hardcover and paperback 216 pages. Dang. Not even close to 350 :-(

Edit: I even checked "Professor Wellstone Goes to Washington"...barely 300. Damn requirements!! *shakes fist*

[flamingyouth]

4. Eleanor Roosevelt, by Blanche Wiesen Cook

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140094601/qid=1093902925/sr=8-2/ref=pd_ka_2/104-4578895-8489566?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

[seventhson]

9. great writer

she actually interviewed me once for an article she wrote related to Eleanor.

Fascinating stuff.

Good recommendation

[2Design]

5. eleanor rosevelt or maria shriver father

[JohnKleeb]

6. Sargent Shriver is the name if youre interested

[nini]

7. Malcolm X

I had to do a paper on him in college and he was very interesting... I learned a lot.

[Dudley_DUright]

8. Do it on your screen namesake, Al Franken!

[AlFrankenFan]

10. I would but I don't think there's a Franken bio out there

let alone one that is 350+ pages.

[seventhson]

12. Che Guevara or

Varian Fry

Both incredible stories.

I also recommend "Light One Candle" by Solly Ganor (incredible story of survival in the Holocaust)

[vetwife]

15. Robert Byrd or Michael Moore...better yet Paul Wellstone !

[TrogL]

18. McCarthy

[never cry wolf]

19. Bunnypants

From being here you already know the subject and have a wonderful resource for more.

Of course you'd have to be truthful and that may force you to avoid solo walks in the woods and small aircraft.

[thestatusquo]

20. Golda Mier

Her Bio is called 'My Life'