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Dual Biographies

Rank Title Author Added

1

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens

1,319 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

2

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

by Charlotte Gordon

843 members

18 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

3

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

by Thomas E. Ricks

661 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

4

Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers

by Deborah Heiligman

621 members

22 reviews

4

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

5

Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

by Gordon S. Wood

577 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

6

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

by Arthur Herman

486 members

6 reviews

4.1

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

7

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

443 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

8

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

by Adrian Goldsworthy

320 members

3 reviews

3.9

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9

Lee and Grant: A Dual Biography

285 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

10

Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

by Sean B. Carroll

271 members

19 reviews

4.1

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

11

The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome

by Jake Morrissey

230 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

12

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

226 members

6 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

13

A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg

218 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

14

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

by Peniel E. Joseph

212 members

2 reviews

4

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

15

Crucible of Command: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee--The War They Fought, the Peace They Forged

by William C. Davis

202 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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16

Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership

by Edward J. Larson

202 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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17

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

by Andrew Morton

193 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

18

Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton

by Gail Crowther

144 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

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19

War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein and Miss Elizabeth Arden, Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry

by Lindy Woodhead

122 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

20

Dangerous Ambition: Rebecca West and Dorothy Thompson: New Women in Search of Love and Power

by Susan Hertog

110 members

15 reviews

3.2

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

21

Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

by Karin Wieland

100 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

22

The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby

by Richard D. Mahoney

99 members

1 review

3.9

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23

In Byron's Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron's Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace

by Miranda Seymour

91 members

3 reviews

3.8

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24

The Queen & Di: The Untold Story

by Ingrid Seward

83 members

1 review

3.8

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

25

The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War

by James McGrath Morris

64 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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26

Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862-1872

by David Montgomery

56 members

4

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

27

Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light

by Liz Heinecke

56 members

½ 3.5

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

28

Brandeis and Frankfurter: A Dual Biography

by Leonard Baker

56 members

½ 3.5

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29

Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility:The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth

by Marian Veevers

50 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

30

The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis

by Bruce Chadwick

33 members

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31

Gilbert and Sullivan: A Dual Biography

by Michael Ainger

30 members

1 review

3.8

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32

Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Dual Biography (English and Dutch Edition)

28 members

2 reviews

4.8

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

33

Nearer the Heart's Desire: Poets of the Rubaiyat: A Dual Biography of Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald

by Robert D. Richardson

19 members

4

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

34

by Millicent Dillon

17 members

1 review

½ 3.3

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

35

Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant : a dual biography

by Renee Winegarten

15 members

½ 3.5

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

36

Seesaw, a dual biography of Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks

by William Holtzman

13 members

1

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

37

The Rivals: Montrose and Argyll and the Struggle for Scotland

by Murdo Fraser

10 members

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

38

Nixon and Rockefeller: A Double Portrait

by Stewart Alsop

8 members

Member: Diabolical_DrZ

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Started: Diabolical_DrZ
May 2024
Type: Unnumbered

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