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First Kill: A Fighter Pilot's Autobiography: 1981 William R. Dunn: Fighter Pilot: The First American Ace of World War II: 1982 Robert Mason: Chickenhawk [g] 1983 Charles R. Bond Jr. A Flying Tiger's Diary: 1984 Duke Cunningham: Fox Two: The Story of America's First Ace in Vietnam: 1984 Gerhard Neumann: Herman the German: Enemy Alien U.S. Army ...
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by the American white nationalist author Michael H. Hart. Published by his father's publishing house, it was his first book and was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
Many presidents of the United States have written autobiographies about their presidencies and/or (some periods of) their life before their time in office. Some 19th-century U.S. presidents who wrote autobiographies are James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant, though Grant's autobiography is about his time as general during the U.S. Civil War and ...
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. Joseph Conrad, regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he ...
Last Words (book) Laughing in the Jungle; Lawyering (book) Let Me Finish; Lettin' It All Hang Out; Liar's Poker; The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; Life Could Be Verse; A Little Bit Wicked; Little Britches (book) Little White Duck: A Childhood in China; The Long Hard Road Out of Hell; The Long Haul (autobiography) The Lost Boy (memoir ...
Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote Confessions, the first Western autobiography ever written, around 400.Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.. An autobiography, [a] sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life, providing a personal narrative that reflects on the author's experiences, memories, and insights.
Jens Jacob Eschels (Ge, 1757–1842) – first seafarer's autobiography in German; Benjamin Franklin (US, 1706–1790) – The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Mahatma Gandhi (In, 1869–1948) – The Story of My Experiments with Truth; Lee Iacocca (US, 1924–2019) – Iacocca: An Autobiography; Nelson Mandela (SA, 1918–2013) – Long ...