What are the best biographies ever written?

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#1_The Life of Samuel Johnson_#2_The Power Broker_#3_Eminent Victorians_#4_Steve Jobs_#5_Alexander Hamilton_#6_Washington: A Life_#7_The Path to Power_ (Volume 1 of _The Years of Lyndon Johnson_)#8_Benjamin Franklin_

#1The Life of Samuel Johnson

#1The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York#2The Years of Lyndon Johnson #3Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln #4Alexander Hamilton #5John Adams #1American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer #2Steve Jobs #3The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks#1Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)#2Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo #3A Beautiful Mind #1The Diary of a Young Girl #2I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings #3Educated

#1Plutarch’s Lives#2The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

#1_Eminent Victorians_#2_The Life of Samuel Johnson_#3_Washington: A Life_#4_Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar_#5_Mao: The Unknown Story_#6_Lindbergh_#7_Zola_#8_Oscar Wilde_#9_Peter the Great_

#	Entity	Score
01	Steve Jobs	61.2
02	The Power Broker	60.2
03	Alexander Hamilton	50.9
04	The Life of Samuel Johnson	49.7
05	Churchill: A Life	31.9
06	George Washington	31.6
07	Napoleon: A Life	30.9
08	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks	30.7
09	Einstein: His Life and Universe	25.1
10	John Adams	24.9
11	A Beautiful Mind	23.2
12	Eleanor of Aquitaine	23.1
13	Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln	19.3
14	A. Lincoln	18.7
15	Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948	17.7
16	The Years of Lyndon Johnson	15.4
17	Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.	15.0
18	Eminent Victorians	14.4
19	Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett	14.2
20	Boswell’s Life of Johnson	13.8
21	American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer	13.5
22	Hamilton	11.8
23	Truman	10.5
24	The Last Lion	10.0
25	Peter the Great: His Life and World	9.8
26	Oscar Wilde	9.6
27	Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo	9.2
28	W.E.B. Du Bois	9.1
29	The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X	9.0
30	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman	8.9

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