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He Crossed a River and Ended a Republic. Six Years Later His Own Senate Stabbed Him 23 Times.
Classical Era · 100 BC – 44 BC. A cinematic first-person biography — history told in the voice of the figure themselves.
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Live on Kindle Julius Caesar
He Crossed a River and Ended a Republic. Six Years Later His Own Senate Stabbed Him 23 Times.
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A Greek by Blood. A Pharaoh by Choice. Dead by Her Own Hand at 39.
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He Won the Current War. He Died Broke at 86. The FBI Took His Papers the Same Day.
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Live on Kindle Alexander the Great
Heir at 20. Pharaoh at 24. Master of Asia at 30. Dead at 32.
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A Slave at 15. Khan at 40. Buried Where No One Will Ever Find Him.
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He Filled 13,000 Pages With the Future. Then the World Lost Them for 300 Years.
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Live on Kindle Marie Curie
Rejected From University Because She Was a Woman. Won Two Nobel Prizes. Her Notebooks Are Still Radioactive.
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A Corsican Nobody. Emperor at 35. Exiled Twice. Buried in Paris.
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He Remade Reality in 1905. Israel Offered Him the Presidency. The Pathologist Stole His Brain.
Read on Kindle — $2.99Buddha
The Awakened One
Otto von Bismarck
The Iron Chancellor
Pablo Picasso
The Man Who Broke the Mirror
King David
The Shepherd Who Built a Kingdom
Al-Khwarizmi
The Man Who Invented Algebra
Al-Razi
The Physician Who Doubted Galen
Al-Ghazali
The Proof of Islam
Confucius
The Teacher of Ten Thousand Generations
Laozi
The Old Master Who Vanished
Chandragupta Maurya
The Exile Who Built an Empire
King Solomon
The Wisest King
Moses
The Lawgiver Who Freed a Nation
Nefertiti
The Beautiful One Has Come
Sargon of Akkad
The First Emperor
Jesus Christ
The Man Who Changed Everything
Aristotle
The Man Who Catalogued the World
Augustus Caesar
The First Emperor
Cicero
The Voice of the Republic
Joshua ben Perachiah
The Teacher Who Judged All Men Charitably
Pericles
The First Citizen of Athens
Plato
The Philosopher Who Invented the West
Marcus Aurelius
The Philosopher on the Throne
Yochanan ben Zakkai
The Sage Who Saved a Civilisation
Yose ben Yoezer
The Last of the Grape Clusters
Nāgārjuna
The Philosopher of Emptiness
Socrates
The Man Who Knew Nothing
Christine de Pizan
The Woman Who Invented the Author
Dante Alighieri
The Poet Who Mapped the Afterlife
Rabban Gamliel
The Man Who Rebuilt Judaism from the Ashes
Charlemagne
The King Who United Europe
Ibn Battuta
The Man Who Walked the World
Ibn Khaldun
The Man Who Discovered History
Hai Gaon
The Last Light of Babylon
Hildegard of Bingen
The Sibyl of the Rhine
Ibn Rushd
The Commentator
Joan of Arc
The Maid of Orléans
Ibn Sina
The Prince of Physicians
Muhammad
The Prophet Who United Arabia
Thomas Aquinas
The Angelic Doctor
Saadia Gaon
The Father of Jewish Philosophy
Sundiata Keita
The Lion Who Founded an Empire
Mansa Musa
The King Who Broke the World's Gold Market
Pachacuti
The Earth-Shaker Who Built an Empire
Shankara
The Man Who Reclaimed the Infinite
Zheng He
The Admiral Who Reached the Ends of the Earth
William the Conqueror
The Bastard Who Took a Kingdom
Zhu Xi
The Philosopher Who Became a Sage
Henry VIII
The King Who Broke with Rome
Catherine de' Medici
The Black Queen
Elizabeth I
The Virgin Queen
Galileo Galilei
The Man Who Moved the Earth
John Calvin
The Architect of Reform
Christopher Columbus
The Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Man Who Taught Princes to Rule
Michelangelo
The Divine Sculptor
Martin Luther
The Monk Who Shook the World
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Man Who Stopped the Sun
William Shakespeare
The Upstart Crow Who Named the World
Adam Smith
The Father of Modern Economics
Baal Shem Tov
The Master of the Good Name
Alexander Hamilton
The Bastard Son Who Built a Nation
Catherine the Great
The Empress Who Remade Russia
Francis Bacon
The Man Who Invented the Future
Benjamin Franklin
The First American
George Washington
The Indispensable Man
Isaac Newton
The Last Magician
John Adams
The Atlas of Independence
James Cook
The Navigator Who Mapped the World
Immanuel Kant
The Philosopher Who Remade Reason
James Madison
The Father of the Constitution
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Fifth Evangelist
Jane Austen
The Lady Behind the Pen
John Locke
The Father of Liberalism
Moses Mendelssohn
The German Socrates
Louis XVI
The Last King of the Ancien Régime
Louis XIV
The Sun King
Thomas Jefferson
The Pen of the Revolution
The Vilna Gaon
The Genius Who Guarded the Gates
Queen Nzinga
The Warrior Queen of Ndongo and Matamba
René Descartes
The Father of Modern Philosophy
Voltaire
The Patriarch of Ferney
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Divine Prodigy
Oliver Cromwell
The Man Who Killed a King
Peter the Great
The Tsar Who Built a Window to Europe
Abraham Lincoln
The Great Emancipator
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Prophet of Radical Amazement
Franz Kafka
The Man Who Became a Metaphor
Franz Rosenzweig
The Star That Would Not Be Extinguished
Edgar Allan Poe
The Master of the Macabre
Emmanuel Levinas
The Philosopher of the Other
Andrew Jackson
The Will of the People
Carl Jung
The Architect of the Unconscious
Martin Buber
The Philosopher of Encounter
Charles Darwin
The Man Who Changed How We See Life
Charles Dickens
The Man Who Invented Christmas
Henry Ford
The Man Who Put the World on Wheels
Karl Marx
The Spectre That Haunted the World
Oscar Wilde
The Last Gentleman of Letters
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Philosopher Who Killed God
George Orwell
The Conscience of a Century
Richard Wagner
The Architect of Sound
Robert E. Lee
The Marble Man
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Man Who Heard the Universe
Mahatma Gandhi
The Power of Peaceful Resistance
Queen Victoria
The Grandmother of Europe
Rabindranath Tagore
The Bard of Bengal
Wright Brothers
The Men Who Taught the World to Fly
Sigmund Freud
The Architect of the Mind
Sitting Bull
The Last Stand of the Lakota
Vincent van Gogh
The Colours of a Tortured Soul
Woodrow Wilson
The Idealist Who Broke Himself
Thomas Edison
The Wizard of Menlo Park
Ulysses S. Grant
The Quiet Man Who Won the War
Tecumseh
The Shooting Star Who United a Continent
Theodore Roosevelt
The Man in the Arena
Adolf Hitler
The Darkest Shadow
Elvis Presley
The King of Rock and Roll
Ernest Hemingway
The Man Who Wrote Standing Up
Frida Kahlo
The Painter Who Bled Colour
John F. Kennedy
The Thousand Days
Deng Xiaoping
The Architect of Modern China
Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady of the World
John Lennon
The Dreamer Who Changed the World
Joseph Stalin
The Man of Steel
Winston Churchill
His Plan Killed 46,000 at Gallipoli. 25 Years Later He Was the Only Man Britain Trusted to Save Them.
Kofi Annan
The Conscience of the World
Langston Hughes
The Poet of the People
Mother Teresa
The Saint of the Gutters
Nelson Mandela
The Long Walk to Freedom
Ronald Reagan
The Great Communicator
Steve Jobs
The Man Who Thought Different
Walt Disney
The Man Who Built the Kingdom
Wangari Maathai
The Woman Who Planted a Forest
Margaret Thatcher
The Iron Lady
Martin Luther King Jr.
The Dream and the Mountain