Biography books 2020
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Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2020
See all of our 2020 Best Books lists
Burks, Ruth Coker with Kevin Carr O’Leary.All the Young Men.Grove. ISBN 9780802157249.
Burks writes a compelling personal perspective of what the AIDS crisis was like in Arkansas, where the stigma was magnified and the complacence infuriating. This is a powerful memoir about personal responsibility, and Burks’s spirited, straightforward voice balances the heartbreak of her story with just enough humor and toughness.
Cho, Catherine.Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness.Holt. ISBN 9781250623713.
Cho’s candid memoir sheds insight into the inequities of maternal care in the United States and the stigma of mental illness, especially among people of color. It takes care to remind readers what is needed to ensure that maternal care and mental illness are divested of stigma.
Crawford, Lacy.Notes on a Silencing.Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316491556.
Crawford’s brave, brill
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It's the last day of the year. So I thought I'd take a quick look back at some of the more notable books I've read this year.
I didn't actually read many investment books this year. As well as being faced with something of a surfeit of news during 2020, I chose lockdown to tackle Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. If you haven't read it, I can thoroughly recommend it (for my money, Bring Up The Bodies, the second book, is the best, but they're all excellent).
However, compelling as the reimagined life of Thomas Cromwell was, it's the life of another historic figure that ended up being the ultimate page-turner for me this year.
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“THE SOUTHERN STATES HAD RIGHTFULLY THE POWER TO WITHDRAW”: JEFFERSON DAVIS’ HISTORY OF THE CONFEDERACY, FIRST EDITION; INSCRIBED BY HIM TO HIS PHYSICIAN
DAVIS, Jefferson.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881.
First edition of Jefferson Davis’ important history of the Confederacy, inscribed by him to his doctor. With 18 maps (14 folding) and 19 plates, including stipple-engraved portraits of Davis, members of the presidential staff, General Lee, and others. Thick octavo, original three-quarter brown morocco, original brown cloth gilt, patterned endpapers, with steel-engraved plates, including frontispiece portraits, wood-engraved plates, maps. Association copy, inscribed by him in volume one, "Maurice Davis M.D. with the respects of the Author." The recipient was his friend and physician, when the Davis' were in London. Dr. Maurice Marcus Davis (1821-1898) acted as physician to the Davis’s whilst…