A huge, meticulously researched biography that paints Chairman Mao in authentic Hitler-Stalin 20th-century hues.

It is a meticulously researched and footnoted biography, intent on straightening out chronologies and pinning down apocryphal stories.

The Times described the book as "an acclaimed and meticulously researched biography".

"Somewhere for Me" is a thorough and scrupulously researched biography that is both welcome and necessary.

This "superbly researched biography is likely to be definitive."

A serious, lively, conscientiously researched biography of the distinguished Italian writer whose optimism and rationalism were not totally suppressed by his experience as an inmate of Auschwitz.

The heart of Blitzstein's story, as it emerges in Eric A. Gordon's thoroughly researched biography, is his political engagement as an American committed to Communism.

Giles Milton has now written a vivid, scrupulously researched biography telling the rest of the story.

Robert Hooke (1635-1703) nevertheless deserves this finely researched and illustrated biography.

"A highly readable, exhaustively researched biography that is full of both playful anecdote and thoughtful political analysis" about the legendary community organizer.