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**Julia S.** @booktweeting@zirk.us · Mar 27

ENTERTAINING BIOGRAPHY OF PIONEERING stunt performer and silent film action star Helen Gibson combines solid research on the early days of Hollywood with a breezy, chatty tone. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/daughter-of-daring-mallory-omeara/1144495393?ean=9781335007933

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Barnes & NobleDaughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood's First Stuntwoman|HardcoverFrom LA Times bestselling author Mallory O'Meara, the story of America’s first professional stuntwoman, Helen Gibson, who rose to fame during a time when women ruled Hollywood.Helen Gibson was a woman willing to do anything to give audiences a...

#book #Books #bookstodon

**BillMessai** @BillMessai@mastodon.world · Mar 24

Mar 24

BillMessai @BillMessai@mastodon.world

Limited-time deal: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. https://amzn.to/4kS7B1r
#Books #Scientist #Biographies #Politics #SocialSciences #Industries #Power #Greed #Idealism #Careless

**Paria sans portefeuille** @PariaSansPortefeuille@jasette.facil.services · Mar 22

Mar 22

Paria sans portefeuille @PariaSansPortefeuille@jasette.facil.services

#LaBaladoDeFredSavard reçoit #JonathanLivernois pour parler de sa biographie de #GéraldGodin

« En parcourant la vie du poète, journaliste et politicien, on se rend compte que c'est tout le #Québec de la deuxième moitié du XX siècle qui tournoie à travers sa vie. »

https://baladofredsavard.transistor.fm/s7/27

#Godin #polQC #histQC #artsQC #biographies #livres @quebec @bookstodon @histodons

La balado de Fred SavardLa balado de Fred Savard | S07-EP25- Gérald Godin par Jonathan LivernoisCet épisode aurait dû être fait il y a longtemps mais il n'est jamais trop tard pour bien faire ! J'ai donc l'immense plaisir de recevoir le professeur et essayiste Jonathan Livernois qui nous prés...

**Isabel Richards** @1sabelR@mastodon.social · Mar 4

Mar 4

Isabel Richards @1sabelR@mastodon.social

Writing #wikipedia pages about women from #history - especially #Australian women! - has become one of my favourite things to do recently

Wikipedia has almost 2 million #biographies, but less than 20% are about #women and #nonbinary people

They’re running a campaign for #womenshistorymonth to help change this and it’s super easy to participate!

#celebratewomen

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women

meta.m.wikimedia.orgCelebrate Women - Meta

**Paria sans portefeuille** @PariaSansPortefeuille@jasette.facil.services · Feb 18

Feb 18

Paria sans portefeuille @PariaSansPortefeuille@jasette.facil.services

#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #DavidWBlight, author of #FrederickDouglassProphetOfFreedom

https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-february-17-2025/

#FrederickDouglass #abolition #abolitionism #abolitionists #BlackHistory #UShistory #books #biographies @bookstodon @histodons

KPFAThe Intellectual Life of Frederick Douglas | KPFAGuest: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

**The Christian Science Monitor** @csmonitor@flipboard.com · Feb 13

Feb 13

The Christian Science Monitor @csmonitor@flipboard.com

Can learning about other people’s lives inform how we live our own? This question arose as I read, or rather inhaled, Megan Marshall’s memoir “After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart.” #Books #reviews #biographies

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2025/0211/megan-marshall-after-lives-memoir?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Culture @culture-csmonitor

The Christian Science Monitor · Feb 11Curiosity, love, loss: A biographer puts herself in the frameMegan Marshall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, looks inward at how her life has been shaped by asking questions and digging deeply.