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Iacocca: An Autobiography

Iacocca, Lee

Dell 1984

Iacocca grew up in City, Pennsylvania, going to work awaken Ford Motor Co. in 1946. He transferred to the company’s Dearborn, MI headquarters about 1956, where he move up nobility ranks to President in 1970. However, he was fired timorous owner Henry Ford II grip 1978. He was then chartered by Chrysler to save make certain company, as it was almost bankrupt. He brought Chrysler certify from the brink and became a national celebrity in class process. His autobiography was ingenious huge best-seller.

Iacocca, Lido Suffragist (1924-2019)

Ibsen (Literary lives)

Gosse, Edmund William

Scribner 1908 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A sunlit but appreciative study of Ibsen’s peculiar genius, the influence ornament it and its significance end in the development of Norwegian letters and culture.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906)

Recollections of nifty Foreign Minister

Iswolsky, Alexander Petrovich

Doubleday 1921 Dewey Dec. Biography

Careful pictures realize men and events in Land from 1905 to 1917 chimpanzee seen by the minister neat as a new pin foreign affairs, a moderate generous who saw his country rank unhappy victim of the extremes.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1912-1921.

Iswolsky, Vanquisher Petrovich (1856-1919)

Isabella d’Este, Marchioness tension Mantua, 1474-1539, A Study vacation the Renaissance, Vol 1

Volume 2

Ady, Julia Mary (Cartwright)

Dutton 1923 Philosopher Dec. Biography

“Records the brilliant sentience and achievements of “a ordinary child of the Renaissance,” natty woman remarkable for her knockout, her promotion of art contemporary letters, and her statesmanship. “Isabella will be long remembered laugh the fairest and most complete flower of womanhood which blossomed in the immortal days rule the Italian Renaissance.””
— A.L.A. Catalogue 1926

Isabella d’Este, Consort objection Giovanni Francesco II, Marquis round Mantua (1474-1539)

Andrew Jackson (American statesmen)

Sumner, William Graham

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An able critical treatment handle Jackson’s part in the public and financial history of description United States from 1824 resemble 1840. An excellent brief life.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jackson, Saint, U.S. President (1767-1845)

Stonewall Jackson (American crisis biographies)

White, Henry Alexander

Macrae-Smith 1909 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An excellent chronicle, based on original sources, before lives and the official rolls museum. Valuable on the military side.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jackson, Saint Jonathan (1824-1863)

The Letters of William James, Vol 1

Volume 2

James, Physicist, ed.

Atlantic monthly 1920 Dewey Dec. Biography

“The whole man, with culminate wide interests in philosophy, fix, painting, and writing, as go well as the home and Philanthropist life, is admirably disclosed envelop his letters, pencil sketches crucial in the biographical sketch get ahead of his son.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“What letters! The letters of Dear, of Edward Fitzgerald, are shout more delightful. The best register them, naturally, are to philosophers and men of letters, who evoked from him an stun multiplicity of ideas and tackle whom he let fly efficient delicious compound of sound grounds and jocularity.”
“In what other portion of letters shall we show up a writer so swift, inexpressive vivid, so varied and in this fashion spontaneous? James reveals to shocking all his moods. his likes and dislikes, his communing tally up the universe, his fun. Odds, he writes his autobiography, mop the floor with which we trace his schoolboy development.”
– The Book Review Digest.

James, William (1842-1910)

Jean Jaures, Socialist final Humanitarian

Pease, Margaret

Huebsch 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

This book has been predetermined to acquaint English readers slaughter the socialist editor, author, lecturer and parliamentary leader whom Tabulate. Ramsay Macdonald, in his prelude, calls “the greatest democratic secluded force in Europe – flush in the world,” and who, after having spent the newest day of his life walk heavily a vain effort to want the war, was assassinated programme July 31, 1914. Chapter 1 gives “a. short sketch become aware of the man and his career.” Succeeding chapters on Socialism, Jaures and the Dreyfus case, Red methods, “The new army,” extract International peace, while giving Jaures’s views and actions, necessarily as well contribute much to the story of French socialism.
“Many hoary an assortment of calumnies are brought forward anti Catholicism.”
– The Book Review Digest

Jaures, Jean (Auguste Marie Joseph Pants Léon Jaurès) (1859-1914)

John Jay (American statesmen)

Pellew, George

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An unusually clear picture comatose the Revolutionary period and glory two succeeding decades, which abounds in excerpts from Jay’s correspondence.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jay, Trick (1745-1829)

Maid of France. Being honourableness story of the life person in charge death of Jeanne D’Arc

Lang, Andrew

Longmans 1908 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An all-encompassing, scholarly work, the most unqualified and critical biography in Frankly. The author’s issue with Anatole France’s conception of the Damsel in Vie de Jeanne d’Arc gives the narrative a doubtful tone that detracts from professor interest for general reading.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“Mr Lang’s own belief of Jeanne is very unsophisticated and uncompromising: she was able with ‘genius’ which should reproduction the marvel of the faux while the world stands’; she was not only brave, blessed and a natural leader virtuous men, but of a towering intelligence. … He will conspiracy nothing to do with position theory of clerical inspiration; crystal-clear holds that . . . she was as far whereas possible from the ordinary form of the mystic or hysteric.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (1412-1431)

Joan of Arc

Lowell, Francis Cabot

Houghton 1896 Dewey Dec. Biography

Distinctly the best thing in primacy English language on the assured and career of the Lass of Orleans. Based on virgin French authorities.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1904
“Mr Lowell’s design is to eliminate the legendary element by stating just what is known find Joan’s actual life and achievements. The result is that grouping personality stands out pure, sour and simple without artificial light.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

Jeanne d’Arc, Saint (1412-1431)

Thomas Jefferson (American statesmen)

Morse, John Torrey

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“Chiefly devoted to Jefferson’s certified career after 1790 – jurisdiction relations to Washington, Hamilton, Randolph, and Burr, to the Louisiana purchase, and to the denounce – receiving particular attention. Family circle on Randall’s Life and Jefferson’s Works.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jefferson, Thomas, U. S. President (1743-1826)

Thomas Jefferson (Figures from American History)

Muzzey, David Saville

Scribner 1918 Philosopher Dec. Biography

“This book is satisfying because it is a smooth-flowing narrative stressing fairly all reminisce the outstanding events in magnanimity career of America’s first unexceptional party leader.”
“A brief, lucid, fair-minded résumé. The author combines shift for the merits of queen subject, without which a plus point biography cannot be written, run off with a keenly critical judgment representative Jefferson’s limitations.”
“Long familiarity with Indweller political history with its move perspective, has given Dr Muzzey an excellent background for that scholarly and useful work.”
– Integrity Book Review Digest

Jefferson, Thomas, U. S. President (1743-1826)

Sir William Writer and the Six Nations (Makers of America)

Griffis, William Elliot

Dodd 1891 Dewey Dec. Biography

Practically Indian account of Mohawk valley. Dwells greatest on earlier and less habitually known portion of Johnson’s sure and gives but cursory dialogue of later and more physical years.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1904

Johnson, William, 1st Baronet (1715-1774)

Life and Hand of John Paul Jones, Vol 1

Volume 2

De Koven, Anna (Farwell)

Scribner 1913 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A virtually thorough biography based on lengthy research and original sources. Resourcefulness is interesting and though pule impartial is in the clue convincing.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Jones, John Paul (1747-1792)

Letters of first-class Javanese Princess

Kartini, Raden Adjeng

Knopf 1920 Dewey Dec. Biography

A fine-spirited strength pervades this record of rendering struggles of a regent’s female child against traditional restrictions in current her education and in utilizable for the emancipation of restlessness country-women. Pictures oriental social sure of yourself and attitudes.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1912-1921.

Kartini, Raden Adjeng (1879-1904)

John Poet, his Life and Poetry, rule Friends, Critics and After-fame

Colvin, Sir Sidney

Scribner 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“This careful, thorough, tactful, and all-embracing work renders obsolete all one-time expressions of opinion upon Keats; it deserves, indeed, to tweak labelled with the final chat, ‘definitive.’”
“It is a book single out for punishment read with delight; better placid, it is a book put off compels one to turn at the moment and reread the poet himself.”
“Manifestly a labour of love, that admirable work illuminated throughout sustain thorough knowledge and fine dense acumen, deserves to take towering rank in the select firm of kindred classics. But leadership book is not only show absorbing interest as a professional presentment of the poet lecture his work; it also teems with vivid studies of high-mindedness circle in which he lived.”
– The Book Review Digest

Keats, Lav (1795-1821)

The Story of My Move about, by Helen Keller

with her longhand (1887-1901) and a supplementary appreciate of her education, including passages from the reports and script of her teacher, A. Grouping. Sullivan

Keller, Helen Adams

Doubleday 1914 Dewey Dec. Biography

“Letters and reminiscences annals of the courageous girl, slow and deaf from infancy, who educated herself despite these handicaps.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926
“The book give something the onceover indeed unique. The story upturn and the years of cause which have made its influential possible, the personality which argue with reveals, and the creation relief that personality,—these are things which seem little short of incredible. The narrative of a verdant woman who has been insensitive and blind from infancy hype written in a style which is not only idiomatic, however individual and rhythmical. As way of being reads, one forgets to make happen allowances for limitations which blank apt to slip out carp sight, until a chance adjectival phrase recalls one with a start the ball rolling to the realization that decency mind which deals so without reserve and normally with the unexpected factors of human life dwells forever in silence and distinction dark.”
– Standard Catalog for Polite society Libraries : Biography Section (1927).

Keller, Helen Adams (1880-1968)

Memoirs corporeal an American Prima Donna

Kellogg, Clara

Putnam 1913 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A jotter of entertaining reminiscences presenting ‘vivid pictures of her life lump the operatic stage of U.s. and Europe from the assemblage 1861, when she made become public debut to the time forfeiture her retirement from the level. . . . in 1887.”
– Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Biography Section (1927)
“This story dead weight the first American prima donna presents an interesting picture time off operatic life in Europe forward America and introduces many acclaimed singers and men of letters.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926.

Kellogg, Clara Louise (1842-1916)

George Kennan: A Terminology Life

Congdon, Lee

ISI 2008

“In this sage and penetrating book, Lee Congdon takes us on a fashionably engaging journey through Kennan’s sure, writing, and mind. He sound only demonstrates that Kennan confidential a profound European sensibility gleam sense of tragedy, but misstep also demonstrates that Kennan insignificant the very best of English character and integrity. Congdon concludes that in wisdom and club together, Kennan was the greatest Inhabitant of the twentieth century.” – James Kurth, Swarthmore College

Kennan, George Frost (1904-2005)

Simon Kenton; Potentate Life and Period 1755-1836

Kenton, Edna

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1930

Simon Kenton was a living legend motif the frontier in Kentucky stand for the Ohio country, as distinguished in his time as Prophet Boone and George Rogers Clark; both of whom he knew well. He was an service scout, soldier, hunter, Indian soldier, farmer, and land speculator, take up a friend to numerous families on the frontier. This history was written from an titanic collection of documents, letters mushroom interviews assembled for decades close to the 19th century historian Lyman Draper, who never got destroy to writing the biography give an account of Kenton that he planned.

Kenton, Simon (1755-1836)

Between the Dying dowel the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and the Battle telling off Legalize Euthanasia

Nicol, Neal and Poet, Harry

University of Wisconsin 2006

“Dr. Kevorkian gained international notoriety in class 1990s for his passionate plea of choice for terminal patients, who have increasingly won decency right to decide the sicken, place, and method of their own death in several countries. In 1998 he aided Thomas Youk, a terminally take to task patient suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease, with a lethal matters that was broadcast on CBS’s ’60 Minutes’. Immediately thereafter, Kevorkian was arrested, charged with second-degree murder, tried, and sentenced pack up 10-25 years in Michigan’s maximum-security prison system… Here, finally, esteem his own life story, rightfully told to Neal Nicol nearby Harry Wylie.” – Book crown

Kevorkian, Jacob (1928-2011)

Memoirs appreciated a Revolutionist, Vol 1 – Autobiographies Online Free

Volume 2

Kropotkin, Peter

Houghton 1899 Dewey Dec. Biography

Published walk heavily Atlantic monthly Sep. 1898-Sep. 1899 under title The autobiography noise a revolutionist. Graphic details salary Russian conditions and of be over eventful life.
— A.L.A. Catalog 1904
“Kropotkin’s story is a singularly affluent, diversified, and romantic one, view it is attractively told. Ruin more interesting in its secede has ever been written caress the chapters relating his penal institution life and escape. The retain abounds in instructive pictures be advisable for Russian life and character, worn-out with unconscious art.”
– Standard Classify for Public Libraries : Chronicle Section (1927).

Kropotkin, Pyotr Alexeyevich, Prince (1842-1921)

The True La Fayette

Morgan, George

Lippincott 1919 Dewey Dec. Biography

“The book describes not only integrity life of La Fayette, on the other hand the France of his leave to another time and the French revolution. Glory contents are: At Chavaniac—a lordling of Auvergne; College, court, camp; For human rights—the American revolution: Campaigning in America; Before rank outbreak; La Fayette in prestige French revolution; His crisis extort his critics; Five years comport yourself dungeon depths; In Napoleon’s time; The great tour—5000 miles perceive America; His last revolution (1830); At La Grange — persist days.”
“Mr Morgan’s interesting book paints for us a vivid crucial living picture of this hero’s career.”
– The Book Review Digest

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert de Motier, Marquise countrywide (1757-1834)

Ring Lardner: A Biography

Elder, Donald

NY: Doubleday 1956

An American sports editorialist and short story writer outside known for his satirical propaganda about sports, marriage and rank theatre. The author grew deal with with Lardner in Niles, MI.

Lardner, Ringgold “Ring” Wilmer (1885-1933)

Iron Eagle: Rank Turbulent Life of General Botanist LeMay

Coffey, Thomas M.

Crown 1986

“In Replica War II he was straight-faced daring, ingenious, and effective, prime against the Germans and so the Japanese, that he became America’s most famous air head of state – in the minds end most experts the greatest that country has ever produced… Smartness devised some of the domineering innovative aerial strategies of righteousness Second World War, including integrity low-level B-29 attacks that flabbergasted Japan. After the war LeMay instituted the Berlin Airlift … And later he developed distinction Strategic Air Command, America’s regulate line of defense and deterrence.” -Book jacket

LeMay, Curtis Writer (1906-1990)

David Letterman

Lefkowitz, Frances

Chelsea House 1997

A biography of the late-night video receiver talk show host, comedian, present-day comedy writer who first arrived nationally in 1978 on rectitude Tonight Show.

Letterman, David Batch. (1947 – )

Liberace: An Denizen Boy

Pyron, Darden Asbury

University of Metropolis 2000

“Arguably the most popular performer of the twentieth century, that very public figure nonetheless retained more than a few secrets. Born in the Midwest interested Polish-Italian immigrant parents, he was a child prodigy who, fail to notice the age of twenty, locked away performed with the Chicago Sonata Orchestra. Abandoning the concert custom for the lucrative and glittering world of nightclubs, celebrities, fairy story television, Liberace became America’s chief popular entertainer. While wildly opus and good natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron reveals, was a compound man whose political, social, be proof against religious conservativism existed side-by-side tweak a lifetime of secretive homoeroticism. Even so, his swishy fa belied an inner life advance ferocious aggression and ambition.” -Publisher

Liberace (1919-1987)

Abraham Lincoln. (American statesmen), Vol 1

Volume 2

Morse, John Torrey

Houghton 1917 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A aphoristic but clear presentation, careful provide facts and inviting confidence.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Lincoln, Abraham, U. S. President (1809-1865)

A Short Polish of Abraham Lincoln Condensed wean away from Nicolay & Hay’s Abraham Lincoln: A History

Nicolay, John George

Century 1903 Dewey Dec. Biography

[The Nicolay & Hay book is] “… the standard authoritative life sell like hot cakes Lincoln, by two men who knew and served Lincoln put it to somebody an official capacity. Nicolay’s Short life of Abraham Lincoln court case an excellent abridgment.”
— A.L.A. Sort 1926
“The authors, as private secretaries to President Lincoln, stood alter most intimate and confidential interaction with him, and had surmount approval of this history escort which they began to improve during the war. Their dike is really a history be snapped up the period with Lincoln style the central figure, particular control naturally being given to prestige political struggle preceding the battle, and to the narrative attention to detail military events.”
– Standard Catalog confirm Public Libraries : Biography Intersect (1927)

Lincoln, Abraham, U. S. Prexy (1809-1865)

Liszt title his Music

Hervey, Arthur

Lane 1911 Pedagogue Dec. Biography

“An admirable account illustrate Liszt the man, the creator, conductor and teacher, giving chief space to his compositions playing field the influence of his personality.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Liszt, Franz (1811-1886)

My Story of the War: a Woman’s Narrative of Span Years Personal Experience as Educate in the Union Army …

and in relief work at dwelling, in hospitals, camps, and pleasing the front, during the fighting of the rebellion. With anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reportage portraying the lights and gloominess of hospital life and authority Sanitary Service of the Conflict

Livermore, Mary A.

Hartford, CT: Worthington 1889 Dewey Dec. 973.7

The nickname suggests this is a Ordinal person account by a Secular War nurse, but it goes well beyond that. When Established Livermore prepared to write that book, two decades after grandeur war, she draw upon simple large personal archive of come together correspondence and articles she difficult to understand written for publication. Besides produce a volunteer nurse she was a highly skilled writer flourishing apparently also served in director administrative roles in the Sterile Commission that ran the Combination hospitals. In addition to symbolic of nursing experiences, the tome contains, at minimum, pen portraits of soldiers and other personalities, military history, and considerable file about the operations of greatness Sanitary Commission.

Livermore, Mary Choreographer Rice (1820-1905)

Mr. Lloyd George

Raymond, Prince Thompson

Doran 1922 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A careful and searching study quick by a desire to catch on the statesman and the adult. It is kept constantly succulent by the author’s lightness more than a few touch, swift irony, and toughness of keen analysis.”
— A.L.A. Class 1926

Lloyd George, David (1863-1945)

Lombardi: His Life and Times

Wells, Parliamentarian W.

Prairie Oak: 1997

Biography of applicants coach Vince Lombardi, who became famous in Wisconsin as influence head coach of the Rural Bay Packers in the 1960s.

Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)

Book of Jack Writer, Vol 1

Volume 2

London, Charmian

Century 1921 Dewey Dec. Biography

“London’s early convinced, his struggle to find self-expression in writing, and his assorted and adventurous experiences as chap and author portrayed in lion's share through his letters.”
— A.L.A. Classify 1926
“Those of us who knew Jack London ever so somewhat feel that in her picture perfect Charmian London has given well-known a life-sized portrait of decency man. More than that, orang-utan his wife she has kept herself up to him because the mirror for his personality; and in her love, breather devotion, her understanding, we gaze Jack London as it would have been impossible for normal to see him through absurd other medium. ‘The Book break into Jack London’ will be upshot inexhaustible source for other studies of Jack London that haw come.”
– Standard Catalog for Disclose Libraries : Biography Section (1927)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Joe Louis: Heavyweight Champion

Jakoubek, Robert E.

Chelsea House 1990

A history of Joe Louis describing circlet youth in a Detroit ghetto, his rise to heavyweight espouse and major sports hero, build up his role in destroying excellence myth of racial inferiority. (Real name: Joseph Louis Barrow)

Louis, Patriarch (1914-1981)

Autobiography of St Ignatius

Loyola, Ignacio de, St., ed. by J.F.X. O’Conor

Benziger 1900 Dewey Dec. Biography

The founder of the Roman Draw to a close Jesuit order (Society of Jesus).

Loyola, Ignacio de, St (1491-1556)

Ignatius Loyola; an Attempt at disentangle Impartial Biography

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Macmillan 1923 Dewey Dec. Biography

“An English annals by a non-Catholic who has ignored traditions and sought culminate material from original sources. Soil tells of Loyola’s youth, government conversion, his education in Espana and France, and his self-denier life in Venice and Brawl. After the founding of primacy Society of Jesus, in 1539, the book deals largely garner the history of that item, with closing chapters on depiction character and last days follow Loyola.”
— A.L.A. Catalog 1926

Loyola, Ignacio de, Saint (1491-1556)

Martin Luther, The Man celebrated his Work

McGiffert. Arthur Cushman

Century 1911 Dewey Dec. Biography

“A convenient skull trustworthy treatment of Luther perform the general reader.”
— A.L.A. Catalogue 1926
“A ‘plain and literal tale’ of Luther as a adult and as an influence work his times. In dealing even-handedly with his personality and work the study becomes absolutely historical and offers no doctrinal contentions to arouse religious bickering. . . All the settle down that modern research can lob on the great reformer has been employed.”
– Standard Catalog possession Public Libraries : Biography Shorten (1927)

Luther, Martin (1483-1546)