The most famous biographies

From Edward Snowden to Haruki Murakami: the most inspiring biographies from the editorial office from Edward Snowden to Haruki Murakami: the most inspiring biographies of 59 books, we tell us what inspirational stories almost half a price can be replenished with the collection sometimes to read the biography of the famous person - as if to invite him to tea and get to know each other.

This is how a simple guy who has become the highest paid actor Hollywood can do this, ”Will Smith and Mark Manson about the book, it seems, Will Smith achieved, if not everything he wanted in life, then a lot: a popular actor with millionth fees, a hip-hop artist, whose albums became platinum and received numerous awards, husband-and-loving father but a loving father, but a loving father.

This is only part of his life history, albeit a true, glossy facade, behind which there are many difficulties and dubious events, from betrayal to dependence. Perhaps the second most important hero of this autobiography is Will Smith- the eldest, the actor’s father, a difficult relationship with which influenced a lot. My father gave me my name - he called me in his honor, and this endowed me with the most important quality: the ability to withstand adversity.

He gave me the will that is how Will translates from English - approx. My years in Top Gear ”by Jeremy Clarkson about the book in the preface of Jeremy Clarkson, one of the leading British British television show about cars, says: this book is not an autobiography. But what is she then? A collection of ironic, capacious, witty, sometimes even caustic and completely inappropriate notes about cars, automobile companies, races, car owners, residents of Great Britain and about everything that could have come to mind, a good quarter century devoted himself to a car show.

True fans of the trinity of the leading Top Gear will enjoy the generous note of nostalgia for the past, but the book may not come in sensitive and empathic readers. Cars are irresponsible, harmful to the environment, noisy and dangerous. This is the same stupidity as unprotected sex, but who is hunting to pull the elastic band? The former first lady of the United States, a philanthropist, an influential woman-American, supporting wife and mother.

Her biography is a story about which she had to face a good and bad on the way to the White House, what America appeared before her all these years, to whom and how she could help and whose life to improve. During her life, Michelle Obama managed to work as a lawyer, vice president of the hospital and the director of a non-profit organization who helps young people build a meaningful career.

She was a black student from the working class at a prestigious college mainly for white, as well as the only woman and the only African American in various companies. Her book is largely devoted to what a modern woman has to deal with on the way to success, and that the high -speed elevator to the top will most likely not happen, be you even the spouse of the most influential person in America.

Personal business ”Edward Snowden about the book of this book Edward Snowden, a former spy who worked on the CIA and the NSA, considers an attempt to protect ordinary citizens from the same as he: those who consistently violate the right to private life in the interests of the state. For seven years that Snowden worked in American intelligence, he managed to participate in the most important process for the history of American espionage - in the transition from targeted observation of individual individuals to mass surveillance of the population as a whole.

In his work, he contributed to the fact that one government could collect in its hands all the information about digital communication around the world, could store it for an arbitrarily long time and, at its desire, could carry out the search in it. After September 11, the American intelligence community was tormented by guilt for not being able to cope with the protection of its own security, and decided to create a system that would never be taken by surprise under no circumstances.

This opened the way such as Snowden, GIMs, technological specialists who dream of changing the world for the better. However, everything went wrong, and from the book we will find out why and how it happened. Optimism and belief that it deserves the best. Perhaps this is the most touching and at the same time fascinating part of the book: the story of how May Musk was able to get out of the relationship with the father of Ilon, finally flush out of the golden cage and start life from scratch.

May moved to the States, continued to work as a fashion model and fashion model in parallel with the upbringing of two sons and obtaining a dietary education. Think only about what will bring happiness to you. Continue to open the door outside the door, and you see-there is something for you.The take -off and fall of the Colombian drug lord with the eyes of his son ”Juan Pablo Escobar about the book on what to do if a person who has kept all Columbia and acquired many sworn enemies for decades, at the same time your father, whom you unconditionally love?

In his memoirs, Juan Pablo Escobar Enao explores the inner world of the most famous drug lord, tries to re -open it as a person with all the advantages and disadvantages. But besides, this is an attempt to figure out how modern Colombia and its politics are arranged and why the country cultivates people like escobar. Ultimately, in one father was right: only through his corpse, his mother was able to meet with his enemies and survived to tell about it.

But in the “Memoirs” he appears before us not only as a scientist, the creator of logotherapy, the winner who has survived in a deadly concentration camp, but also as just a person, not devoid of, must admit, some exemption. We learn about the childhood and youth of Francla, about the first achievements as a psychiatrist, about his dispute with the followers of Freud and Adler.

And, if we know about the experience of survival in Terezienstadt from other works, this is more given to the usual life in all its fullness and the arguments of Frankl about faith, love, meaning and much more. Reading an autobiography, as if you are communicating with a hero. Nikulin brightly, figuratively and with unchanging good irony, tells about the children's years and service in the army, the Great Patriotic War and life immediately after it.

How long and unsuccessfully he tried to enter the Theater School and the Institute of Cinema, but in the end he ended up in the circus and did not regret it a day. He writes about the everyday life of the clown and the people with whom he worked and from whom he studied. It is shared by the details of the filming in the cult Gaidaev comedies and the tragic "Andrei Rublev" Tarkovsky.

Autobiography of an amazing person, in a word. One of the girls came in a pack and danced. And I - the clown and realized that I should mix everyone. Remembering that when the clowns in the circus fell, it caused laughter of the audience, I, as soon as I entered the room, immediately crashed to the floor. But no one laughed. I got up and fell again. Pretly painfully hit I did not know then that it was also necessary to fall skillfully, but, having overcome the pain, he rose again and again crashed to the floor.

He fell and was waiting for laughter. But no one laughed. Only one woman asked her mother: - Is it for you, fit? The next day, my back, neck, hands were sick, and the first time I realized from my own experience - it is not easy to be a clown. As if courtyard dogs ran in the work, plywood scenery fell, and grandfather hobbled with a stick on prostheses; To completely fall out of the shocks of the Tashkent earthquake of the wall of the uncle, cast from the Saman dough; so that the midday shadow from the apple tree slowly flows from the porch and the dragonfly hung above the puddered milk; To play, screamed and fought yard children.

And in the midst of all this thick-to-man-to-do-proud life, the author himself would stand and calmly answered the camera directly to questions about the style, about literary heroes, about the plan and final of books, about the accidents and patterns in the craft, about childhood and fate, about dreams, about love and the inescapable longing of the artist.

The novel "" Churchill, according to contemporaries, read twice. Winston's main character is named after the British politician. And, although in nature Orwell and Churchill were different significantly, in the main it were kindred souls. They both looked for answers to the most important questions of the era: Hitler and fascism, Stalin and Communism, America and its superiority before Britain.

They approached them fully armed with intellect, conviction of their judgments, even if they were rejected by most contemporaries, and an outstanding skill of handling a word. Both believed in the key principles of liberal democracy: freedom of thought, words and meetings. The main thing that both, each in their manner and with their inherent capabilities, worked - how to preserve personality freedom in an era, when the state invades private life with all power.

The historian Simon Shama called them architects of his time and "the most incredible allies." They had a common goal - to prevent the further rise of a murderous state machine that began in ’and reached a peak in E GG. Thomas Rix's book concentrates just on this period of time, the most fruitful for both. Indeed, often the stories of the contemporaries of the emperor depended on the position of these people during the life of Napoleon and after his death.

Historian Andrew Roberts, working on the book, relied mainly not on the interpretation of his predecessors, but addressed the words of Napoleon himself from his many letters - the Parisian Fund of Napoleon published 33 preserved messages! After reading the book of Roberts, you can decide for yourself who the French emperor was: the destroyer or creator, liberator or tyrant, statesman or adventurer.

Napoleon is the Marquis de Kolenkur “to go through the walls.Autobiography ”Marina Abramovich about the book is possible, the most famous contemporary artist,“ grandmother of the performance ”, as she is called, Marina Abramovich looks back in her autobiography, which began in childhood. The most useful habit, she is convinced by her strict mother, director of the Museum of Revolution and Art, was the pedantic documentation of everything related to creativity.

This, of course, makes Abramovich’s autobiography as detailed as possible, from the first clash with contemporary art in the educational class of her father’s friend to the most risky performances. With another “inheritance” left by Danitsa Abramovich, it is increasingly complicated: her mother treated Marina with incredible cruelty and attempts to control all aspects of her life for many years.

In the book, the artist rethinks her own children's experience, tells how she came to this direction of contemporary art, shares a long history of relations with the artist Ulai. Like in the old fairy tale ”Alexander Balunov about the book of the book of one of the founders of the King and Jester group is a kind of collection“ Best of ”, compiled from the two previous books and previously unpublished chapters.

Alexander Balunov, familiar to the fans of the group named Bala, tried to tell the most fully and truthfully as possible about his life, the life of the group, the history of the creation of songs and funny, and sometimes sad, adventures that happened to him and friends. Balu and pot, aka Mikhail Gorshenev, were friends from high school. A curious fact: Mikhail called himself a pot much later, but classmates called him Gavrila.

In school years, the ball tried to write fantasy-riman. Once the pot took him to read, immediately imbued with a friend’s imagination, and the opportunity not only to read literary works, but also to create something like that. From this later the bright and figurative texts of the King and the Jester group were born. The book of Alexander Balunov will be primarily interesting to the group fans, but readers, only a little familiar with the work of musicians, will find curious stories for themselves.

This club did not belong to our area, but there was some kind of equipment in it, there was a musical director, and we oh, yes! There were drums, an electric guitar, bass and microphones! First of all, the muscle leader, such a young and cool guy, asked: “Who knows how to play the guitar? And he became a guitarist to his house, a guitar teacher had already come to his house.

And I picked up a bass gitar. The sensational story of the murder, madness, glamor and greed ”Sarah Guy Forden about the book a story about love, hostility, luxury and truly Italian passions formed the basis of the film of the same name, published in the year. The drama, which ended in the murder of Maurizio Gucci, ordered by his ex -wife Patricia Redzhani, did not start with them. For decades, the Gucci generation was at enmity with each other, trying to share the business that they got from the founder of the future fashionable empire Guccio Gucci.

The book of Forden is read as an exciting detective in which there was a place for both family saga and business faces. Who will decide on the company's entry into the international market? Who will get a control package of shares? Was it worth it to leave the heavy suite? Who will be imprisoned in the end? Although in this book we know in advance who the killer, this does not prevent us from enthusiastically monitor the plot turns.

His sons inherited the empire he created, and he did not find heavy family quarrels, which torn the Gucci dynasty for years later. But Guccio himself launched them a beginning: he often pulled his sons with each other, as he believed that the spirit of competition would spur them. He was not going to become a writer, he did not make any notes, he did not conduct notebooks, he just once took and for no reason wrote the debut novel “Listen to the Wind Song” and received the Gundzo magazine for novice writers.

And then somehow invisibly turned into a professional writer.