The final thing a good biography must provide is judgment.

Using eyewitness accounts from contemporary letters, this biography provides needed insight into why Eddy made certain professional decisions in the 1940s and 1950s.

But the new biography provides more than sheer volume.

Coolidge's biography also provides lessons for today's leaders.

Their biographies provide us with access to the professional and class alliances which fed into the politics of mid-Victorian social reform.

The biographies, according to their creators, provide food for thought.

The biography provided a detailed portrait of Roosevelt's political career and also his personality.

The biography also provided fresh information about Anne's life before and after the period covered by her diary.

This biography of the Kennedy family by an author with a "strong and canny" voice "provides genuine surprises."

This biography provides a detailed overview of the influences that made him the man and the writer he was.