This zesty romp through millennia of biographical portraits comes from \t\t the pen of a master biographer (JFK: Reckless \t\t Youth). Hamilton's a friendly spectator to his own art, undaunted by \t\t ...
Evolutionary biography -- Hagiography -- The renaissance of biography -- Victorian pseudobiography -- The early twentieth century -- The rise of film -- The people's war -- Death of the author -- New ...
In this follow-up to Biography: A Brief History, Hamilton crafts a guide to writing biography that's one part how-to and several parts indulgent-but illuminating-infatuation with the possibilities of ...