2010-12-28, 11:13 PM
I am not a big autobiography fan but i did enjoy Don Zimmers book. (Baseball legend and full of great baseball stories)
My boss loves The making of a radical: a political autobiography by Scott Nearing
Having never read the Grant book you mention you are planning on getting I cannot talk about the story however i like the story about the making of the book. Grant was essentially BROKE. The didn't give ex-presidents pensions at that time in history. His good friend Samuel Clemens (MARK TWAIN) convinces him to come to NYC after many tries so he can be buried for free (when the time comes) in what is now know as grants tomb. While he was in NY he collaborated with Clemens and wrote his autobiography to raise money. Before it is released he dies and the book becomes the best selling book ever in America at the time (excluding the bible) and his widow lives on in extreme wealth.
Good luck hunting ... i love a good book
My boss loves The making of a radical: a political autobiography by Scott Nearing
Having never read the Grant book you mention you are planning on getting I cannot talk about the story however i like the story about the making of the book. Grant was essentially BROKE. The didn't give ex-presidents pensions at that time in history. His good friend Samuel Clemens (MARK TWAIN) convinces him to come to NYC after many tries so he can be buried for free (when the time comes) in what is now know as grants tomb. While he was in NY he collaborated with Clemens and wrote his autobiography to raise money. Before it is released he dies and the book becomes the best selling book ever in America at the time (excluding the bible) and his widow lives on in extreme wealth.
Good luck hunting ... i love a good book