The Superlatives
A weekly review of exceptional biographies and the sensational lives they document.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
THE SCIENTIST MOST LIKELY TO HOLD A MICROSCOPE IN ONE HAND, AND HIS HEART IN THE OTHER
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The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf - Vintage Books (2016) The difficult thing about being a scientist is that once your theori...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
THE FOUNDING FATHER MOST LIKELY TO IDENTIFY WITH MODERN AMERICANS
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Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life by Jeff Wilser - Three Rivers Press (2016) Nearly all of the biographies I’ve reviewed have...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
THE MAN MOST LIKELY TO EXPLOIT VICTORIAN SOCIAL ANXIETITES
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Something in the Blood: the untold story of Bram Stoker, the man who wrote Dracula by David J. Skal - W.W. Norton & Co. (2016) ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
THE PAINTER MOST LIKELY TO IMMORTALIZE THE PANTHEON OF AMERICAN HEROES
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A Revolution in Color by Jane Kamensky - W.W. Norton & Co. (2016) This was a difficult post to write. Most of my neurons are b...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
THE PRINCE MOST LIKELY TO CAST ASIDE HIS ILLEGITIMACY
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The Black Prince of Florence by Catherine Fletcher - Oxford University Press (2016) My favorite period in European history ended b...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
THE WOMAN MOST LIKELY TO REDRAW THE MAP OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Desert Queen by Janet Wallach - Anchor Books (2005) There have been few historical periods more repressive to female liberty than ...
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