{"id":45742,"count":41,"description":"When you want to find out more about a historical or political figure, a biography is a great place to start. We have interviews dedicated to the best five books on historical figures<\/a>\u2014which can include primary sources, or books that focus on specific aspects of their life or legacy, as well as the story of their lives\u2014but in this section, we have also included biographies of historical\/political figures who don't yet have a dedicated interview on our site.\r\n\r\nEurope<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBest Spartacus biography<\/a>\r\nBest Alexander the Great books<\/a>\r\nBest Margaret Thatcher biography<\/a>\r\nBest Joan of Arc biography<\/a>\r\nBest books on Winston Churchill<\/a>\r\nBest books on Elizabeth I<\/a>\r\nBest Karl Marx Biography<\/a>\r\nBest Eleanor of Aquitaine biography<\/a>\r\nBest Isabella de' Medici biography<\/a>\r\nThe best books on Napoleon Bonaparte<\/a>\r\nThe best biography of Otto von Bismarck<\/a>\r\nBest Catherine the Great biography<\/a>\r\nThe best books on Adolf Hitler<\/a>\r\nThe best Franco biography<\/a>\r\nBest Books on Charles de Gaulle<\/a>\r\nBest Florence Nightingale biography<\/a>\r\n\r\nAsia<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBest books on Mahatma Gandhi<\/a>\r\nBest Mao biography<\/a>\r\nBest Indira Gandhi biography<\/a>\r\nBest Aung San Suu Kyi biography<\/a> (from 2011)\r\nBest Dalai Lama biography<\/a>\r\n\r\nAfrica<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBest Cleopatra biography<\/a>\r\nBest Akhenaten biography<\/a>\r\nBest Hatshepsut biography<\/a>\r\nBest Haile Selassie biography<\/a>\r\nBest books on Nelson Mandela<\/a>\r\nBest Steve Biko biography<\/a>\r\n\r\nAmericas<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBest George Washington biography<\/a>\r\nBest Martin Luther King biography<\/a>\r\nBest Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt biography<\/a>\r\nBest Sitting Bull biography<\/a>\r\nBest Rachel Carson biography<\/a>\r\nBest Amelia Earhart biography<\/a>\r\nBest Frederick Douglass biography<\/a>\r\nBest John F Kennedy biography<\/a> (though this only covers the earlier years)\r\nBest Che Guevara biography<\/a>\r\nBest Eva Peron biography<\/a>\r\nBest Lula biography<\/a> (from 2008)","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/biography\/historical-biographies\/","name":"Historical Biographies","slug":"historical-biographies","taxonomy":"category","parent":28577,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/45742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/28577"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=45742"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=45742"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=45742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}