A review of The Plutarch Award nominees
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Do you like reading about other people's lives? Then here are some titles for you to check out. Last year's winner of The Plutarch, the world’s only literary award given to biographers by biographers, was Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David S. Blight. [ebook]
This year's include:
- All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856–1860 by Sidney Blumenthal
- Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
- Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King [ebook]
- Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer
- A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell [ebook]
Looking for even more possible biographies to read then check out past nominees and winners at The Plutarch.