I'm trying to go through at least one for every U.S. president
>>25128172I can give a few James Thomas Flexner - George Washington Hw Brands - Andrew Jackson Conrad Black - Richard Nixon
American Lion (on Andrew Jackson) by Meacham won the Pulitzer. David McCullough's Truman and John Adams won on it too. For Theodore Roosevelt, I'd recommend Edmund Morris' trilogy.
>>25128172There are no biographies of Americlaps worth the paper they are printed on.
>>25128375Americans clap because that is European, it became less common in Europe after America started. John Chrysostom in one of his homilies even requests that there be no clapping during his sermon this time because he wants it clearly heard. Ballet and opera and symphonies reflect how Europe used to treat theatre, with clapping after a well-received scene. Encore isn't an American term, it originally involved repeating a particular scene or aria or movement of an opera in the middle of a performance in response to the volume of the applause
>>25128172brapalso how accurate is Vidal's Lincoln when it comes to being a biography? fictionalized truth or mostly made-up?
>>25128718Vidal had too much ego to be anything close to objective.
>>25128382Based silly goose
>>25128718Wasn't there a Lincoln Vampire fanfiction?
