Here is the fourth section of The Economist’s best of 2008.
Biography
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. By Rick Pearlstein. Scribner; 896 pages; $37.50 and ₤25.
The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of V. S. Naipaul. By Patrick French. Knopf; 576 pages; $30. Picador; ₤20.
Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. By Jonathan Bite. Random House; 496 pages; $35. Viking; ₤25.
White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson. By Brenda Wineapple. Knopf; 432 pages; $27.95 and ₤27.95.
Chagall: A Biography. By Jackie Wullschlager. Knopf; 608 pages; $40. Allen Lane; ₤30.
Glenn A Knight
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