For a country obsessed with people's life stories, Indians don't write absorbing autobiographies or biographies.
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In terms of football autobiographies, Fallen Idle has a brutal honesty reminiscent of Tony Adams' Addicted.
Brazil did not produce the kind of autobiographies written by former slaves in America.
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He is a deft public speaker, and he has written two autobiographies.
More reliable money came from modelling, from a number of autobiographies ghost-written, endorsing consumer products and commenting on the game on television.
In one study, researchers examined the autobiographies of 180 Catholic nuns.
There is scant evidence, however, that autobiographies change the public's views.
Random House, which is owned by the privately-held Bertelsmann Group , has won the battle to publish one of the most hotly anticipated autobiographies of the political world.
And both of us later wrote in our respective autobiographies, after that very first meeting, we could report back to our constituencies, I think I can do business with this man.
Without question Welch and Dunlap get the worst of it, with Byron turning passages in their respective autobiographies against them, in addition to focusing on awkward revisions between the hardcover and paperback editions.
Reviewing dozens of autobiographies of great entrepreneurs, including Steve Jobs, Henry Ford, and Andrew Carnegie, it seems that all had an unshakable belief in their ability to control their lives, with no excuses.
By reading through thousands of diaries and autobiographies, the kind of archival foot-slogging which some cultural theorists are apt to avoid, Mr Rose has found persuasive evidence that, far from being passive consumers of material handed down by their masters, working-class audiences were sharp and active critics.
Written from the perspective of a young woman at the dawn of her adult life, her words are a stunning bookend to something David Brooks wrote about in October in the New York Times: a collection of short autobiographies that members of the Yale class of 1942 wrote for their 50th reunion.
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