Biography · Similar reads
Books like Grant
Grant by Ron Chernow is about redemption, civil war, alcoholism. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Alexander Hamilton
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Ron Chernow · Biography
Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton — immigrant, orphan, Revolutionary War aide-de-camp, first Secretary of the Treasury, founder of the American financial system, and victim of Aaron Burr's bullet — is the most comprehensive single-volume account of Hamilton's life and the book that most directly sparked the Hamilton revival in popular culture, including Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.
Read the summary → - Washington: A Life
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Ron Chernow · Biography
Ron Chernow's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George Washington is the most comprehensive single-volume life of the first president, tracing his formation as a Virginia planter, his military career in the French and Indian War and the Revolution, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his eight years as the first executive of an untested republic.
Read the summary → - The Path to Power
- A Beautiful Mind
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Sylvia Nasar · Biography
Sylvia Nasar's biography of the mathematician John Nash — Nobel laureate, game theory pioneer, and paranoid schizophrenic — is one of the finest accounts of genius and mental illness in biographical literature.
Read the summary → - American Kingpin
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Nick Bilton · Biography
American Kingpin is Nick Bilton's account of the rise and fall of Silk Road, the dark-web drug marketplace run by Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." Bilton traces the story from its ideological origins — Ulbricht's libertarian belief that a free market for drugs would reduce violence, cut out cartels, and let individuals make their own choices — through its rapid growth into a billion-dollar operation, and finally to the multi-agency investigation that culminated in Ulbricht's arrest in a San Francisco public library in 2013.
Read the summary → - American Prometheus
