As described by John McCabe in his old-fashioned and sometimes overly affectionate new biography, the street milieu that Cagney brought to the screen seems contemporary, too.

This warm, captivating, affectionate biography may be the culmination of the 20-year campaign to turn this President from an ordinary little man into a big folk hero.

She "has written a frank, affectionate and judicious biography," Peter Parker said here in 1996.

An affectionate but unsentimental dual biography of the founder of Time magazine and of one of its legendary correspondents, written by a former editor at Time.

It is this Boswell whom Peter Martin brings out in a lively and affectionate biography.

Its culmination may be "Truman," David McCullough's warm, affectionate and thoroughly captivating biography.

While Vesely continues to market the affectionate biography, the couple broke up in 2008.

Although unstartling, this affectionate biography should enhance the reputation that Mrs. Roosevelt won over the decades and that has survived in the years since her death in 1962.

Ms. Goldstein provides an affectionate biography of Frankel and a history of the Washington alleys.

"Mary Shelley," Miranda Seymour's affectionate and well-written biography, concisely sketches the background of scientific inquiry that influenced Shelley's early intellectual development.