HEmploying both history and myth in a steady yet open style, Strong has very admirably achieved his goal of producing a "middle way" biography of the Buddha for interested generalists and students ...

This zesty romp through millennia of biographical portraits comes from \t\t the pen of a master biographer (JFK: Reckless \t\t Youth). Hamilton's a friendly spectator to his own art, undaunted by \t\t ...

‘In 1978, a young doctor at Soweto’s Baragwanath hospital began using his spare time to help the African Food and Canning Workers’ Union set up a Johannesburg branch. On the morning of 5 February, ...

Every statesman and every near statesman nowadays has his biographers. But it is not often nowadays that a bishop turns biographer to a politician. Yet recently appeared a brief biography* of the late ...