# Biography recommendations

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**Created:** [April 11, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biography-recommendations/103046 "2002-04-11T16:15:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biography-recommendations/103046/1 "2002-04-11T16:15:41Z")

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I’m looking for good, general, one-volume biographies of Churchill and Nixon. Something along of the lines of McCullough’s Adams biography (i.e., not focused on one particular area or period of their lives).

Anybody got any favorites?