Quantcast
Channel: Content tagged biography on http://www.thetakeaway.org/
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 8 View Live

Mark Twain's Autobiography To Be Published 100 Years After Death

Author Mark Twain once wrote, “It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.”  Twain, whose given name was Samuel Clemens, will finally show off his most private information 100...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Character Witness: Craig Robinson

Craig Robinson is best known as Michelle Obama's big brother and it's a role he says he's more than happy to play. After all, when they were growing up, Michelle was always known as Craig Robinson's...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Andre Agassi Opens Up

Andre Agassi is widely considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time, as well as one of the most charismatic players in the history of the game. But despite his record wins and huge prize...

View Article

Julia Child and Paul Child: The Spy Years

Before Julia Child was a famous cookbook author, before she became television’s first iconic television chef, and long before she was played by Meryl Streep in the Nora Ephron film “Julie and Julia,”...

View Article

'A Singular Woman:' President Obama's Mother

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and this week, during which all eyes are on the accomplishments of the president, we look at his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. A teenage mother, she married and...

View Article


New Book Explores the Legacy of Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson's highly anticipated new biography on Steve Jobs hit book shelves this week and reveals layers of a man most of us never knew. The book has kept Jobs in the global conversation and...

View Article

Gilad Sharon on His Father's Legacy and Israel's Future

Ariel Sharon served as Israel's prime minister from 2001 to 2006, but Sharon's long career in public service began with Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. Sharon suffered a stroke in 2006, leaving...

View Article

Winston Churchill, 'The Last Lion'

Winston Churchill, British war hero, brilliant military tactician, and prime minister, was a towering figure, an icon of the 20th century. When he came to power in the wake of Neville Chamberlain's...

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 8 View Live




Latest Images