Large-Print Biography
Find an intriguing and easy-to-read bio or memoir with this list of large-print books.

 

1.		Greatest Generation Speaks [LARGE PRINT] by Tom Brokaw
		Random House Large Print Hardcover - 288 pages largeprint edition (November 1999)	Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com The popularity and credibility of charismatic news anchor Tom Brokaw ensured bestseller status for The Greatest Generation, Brokaw's homage to the Americans who survived and overcame the depression and World War II. The Greatest Generation Speaks expands his thesis that we owe a huge debt of... Read more
2.		Tis : A Memoir [LARGE PRINT] by Frank McCourt
		Scribner Paperback - 352 pages largeprint edition (September 1999)	$20.80 $5.20 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though he was born in New York, the family had returned to Ireland due to poor prospects in the United States. Now back on American soil, this awkward... Read more
3.		The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Cloth)) [LARGE PRINT] by Simon Winchester
		G K Hall & Co Hardcover - 297 pages largeprint edition (April 1999)	$28.95 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary put out a call during the late 19th century pleading for "men of letters" to provide help with their mammoth undertaking, hundreds of responses came forth. Some helpers, like Dr. W.C. Minor, provided literally thousands of entries to the... Read more
4.		Faith of My Fathers (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] by John McCain, Mark Slater
		Random House Large Print Hardcover - 560 pages largeprint edition (September 1999)	Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Books by politicians are not often worth reading, but John McCain's Faith of My Fathers is an astonishing exception to the rule. The Republican senator from Arizona has a remarkable story to tell--better than just about any of his peers--and he tells it well, with crisp prose and an unexpected sense... Read more
5.		Desire of the Everlasting Hills : The World Before and After Jesus (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] by Thomas Cahill
		Random House Large Print Hardcover - 480 pages largeprint edition (November 1999)	Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Desire of the Everlasting Hills is another present from the pen of Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization and The Gifts of the Jews. In this third volume of the bestselling Hinges of History series, he knits together history, politics, sociology, and faith with contemporary... Read more
6.		All Too Human : A Political Education (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series) [LARGE PRINT] by George Stephanopoulos
		Thorndike Pr (Largeprint) Hardcover - 743 pages largeprint edition (July 1999)	Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com A Rhodes scholar with a healthy ego, the young idealist George Stephanopoulos thought he was ready for the obscure governor of Arkansas. But soon after he signed on as his presidential-campaign manager, the odds of Clinton's triumph soared, and so did the chance for calamity via Gennifer Flowers and... Read more
7.		Hillary's Choice (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] by Gail Sheehy
		-- On Order Random House Large Print Hardcover - 352 pages largeprint edition (December 1999)	$15.37 $6.58 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Book Description In a real sense, Hillary's Choice is a love story -- one whose rocky moments, rather than remaining provate, have been publicized beyond any imagination. What is the real story? of the marriage of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton? Gail Sheehy began to discover it seven years ago, when she wrote the... Read more
8.	See picture	A Coach's Life : My Forty Years in College Basketball [LARGE PRINT] by Dean Smith, John Kilgo (Contributor)
		Random House Large Print Hardcover - 592 pages largeprint edition (November 1999)	Click here for more info	No customer rating available (Be the first to review it)
Book Description For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men?s basketball program with unsurpassed success?on the court and in shaping young men?s lives. In his long-awaited memoir, he reflects on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries that defined his career,... Read more
9.	See picture	John Glenn : A Memoir (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] by John Glenn, Nick Taylor (Contributor)
		Random House Large Print Hardcover - 512 pages largeprint edition (November 1999)	$27.00 $18.90 $8.10 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com At a time when overwritten biographies arguably provide too much information about their subjects, astronaut-turned-politician-turned-astronaut John Glenn's breezy memoir is welcome. His life story is simply told, not terribly reflective but enormously compelling: an Ohio boy grows up to become the... Read more
10.	See picture	The Greatest Generation (Random House Large Print) [LARGE PRINT] by Tom Brokaw
		Random House Large Print Paperback - 511 pages Large Print edition (December 1998)	$19.96 Click here for more info	Avg. Customer Review:
Amazon.com Tom Brokaw was born in 1940, but it wasn't until he was a famous newscaster that he began to contemplate what his parents' generation--those born between 1910 and the mid-1920s--had accomplished. Narrating his own book, he discusses the sacrifices those men and women made: the bodily harm they... Read more

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