EMERGENCY: a procrastinator needs your help with choosing a biography!

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<p>For AP U.S. History. I need to read a scholarly biography (no autobio, no memoirs, must have work cited in the back, etc.) of an influential AMERICAN, living or dead. School is only two weeks away… and I still haven’t decided! Anyway, what biography would you recommend? Here are some <em>conditions</em></p>

<li>no more than 400 pages</li>
<li>the (truly influential) person ties well with post-1850 U.S. History</li>
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<p>THANKS</p>

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<p>someone please help!</p>

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<p>What about a biography of Edward Teller (father of the H-bomb) by Peter Goodchild? It’s 352 pages. Available through Amazon.com</p>

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<p>Wow. My hat’s off to you, Marite. I can’t remember seeing a scholarly biography of anyone influential that came in under 400 pages (or 500, for that matter).</p>

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<p>I was going to suggest Oppenheimer, but that one comes in at over 700+!</p>

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<p>500 should be fine (given it is not too boring). my primary concern is that the person is core to U.S. history (preferably more modern). this can be political, economical, social, cultural, diplomatical, you name it.</p>

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<p>Evelyn Fox Keller’s biography of Barbara McClintock, A Feeling for the Organism <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805074589/sr=1-1/qid=1155577124/ref=sr_1_1/002-6335611-7710440?ie=UTF8&s=books[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805074589/sr=1-1/qid=1155577124/ref=sr_1_1/002-6335611-7710440?ie=UTF8&s=books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Only 229 pages.</p>

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<p>ooh, the lower limit is 250 pages for the biography. lol</p>

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<p>Try this for Trammell Crow. His real estate empire changed the skylines of Dallas, Atlanta, San Francisco.</p>

<p>Search B&N for biographies that interest you. You’d better get going though. You’re going to end up reading something about Oprah if you procrastinate much longer!</p>