I loved the Manchester series on Churchill. The others you mention are all on the 'to read' list for me already. My favorite recent biography was on both JCR L

I loved the Manchester series on Churchill. The others you mention are all on the 'to read' list for me already. My favorite recent biography was on both JCR Licklider and the world he helped create; 'The Dream Machine', Waldrop. Even more abstract, 'The Prize', Yergin, might be called a biography of the oil industry and 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' is a biograpy of that dread beast. Those were my favorite books before starting Caro.