Adam Kirsch, in his biography of Disraeli, states that his Jewishness was " both the greatest obstacle to his ambition and its greatest engine.

A biography of Leigh states that the alleged relationship caused her to have a breakdown.

This last possibility seems to be supported by the 2007 oral biography of Thompson, which states that the term is taken from a song by Booker ; though, it does not explain why Thompson or Cardoso would have chosen the term to describe Thompson's journalism.

Although it was an accepted part of Hadrian's personal history that he was born in Spain, his biography in Augustan History states that he was born in Rome on 24 January AD 76, of a family originally Italian, but which had lived in Spain for many generations.

In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Francis Beckett states: " the government ... wanted what would become known as a mixed economy ".

While not explicitly stated in the series, Chakotay's official biography on the official Star Trek website also states that he was Ro Laren's instructor at Advanced Tactical Training.

A recent biography of Vera Atkins, the intelligence officer for the French section of SOE, notes that that there was a great deal of confusion about what happened to Szabo-the story was revised four times-and states that the Sten gun incident " was probably a fabrication ".

In his biography of St. Epiphanius, bishop of Pavia, Ennodius states Glycerius made " many measures for the public good ", but mentions only that he pardoned " the injury done to his mother by certain of his subjects at the petition of bishop Epiphanius.

Ferber and another member of the Round Table, Alexander Woollcott, were long-time enemies, their antipathy lasting until Woollcott's death in 1943, although Howard Teichmann states in his biography of Woollcott that their feud was due to a misunderstanding.

Zhou's " official " Chinese biography states that he was a leader of the Tianjin student protests in the May Fourth movement, but many modern scholars believe that it is highly unlikely that Zhou participated at all, based on the total lack of direct evidence among the surviving records from the period.

In Arthur Marx's biography Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth ( 1976 ), Marx states that Samuel Goldwyn offered Schulberg money to not have it published, because Goldwyn felt that the author was " doublecrossing the Jews " and perpetuating an anti-Semitic stereotype by making Sammy Glick so venal.

" A different side of Monk is revealed in Lewis Porter's biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music ; Coltrane states: " Monk is exactly the opposite of Miles: he talks about music all the time, and he wants so much for you to understand that if, by chance, you ask him something, he'll spend hours if necessary to explain it to you.

His biography states that as a young man, he was employed for a while as a lumberjack.

However, Kim Jong-il's official biography states he was born in a secret military camp on Baekdu Mountain ( Korean: 백두산밀영고향집 ) in Japanese-occupied Korea on 16 February 1942.

The only major biography that exists in English is " Tancred: a study of his career and work in their relation to the First Crusade and the establishment of the Latin states in Syria and Palestine " by Robert Lawrence Nicholson.

In his Nobel biography, Kahneman states that his collaboration with Tversky began after Kahneman had invited Tversky to give a guest lecture to one of Kahneman's seminars at Hebrew University in 1968 or 1969.

" Jay Fultz, author of her biography, states that soldiers " often wrote to her as if to a sister or the girl next door, confiding moments of homesickness, loneliness, privation and anxiety.

Although his official biography states that his parents were Tày peasants, it has long been rumoured that Mạnh is the son of former North Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh.

In his biography of James II, John Callow states that Anne " made the greatest single impact upon his thinking.

" In his biography, Clinton Heylin gives the date for the second session as 1 October and states that " Only ' As Young Lovers Do ' from this session would make the album " contending that this is the reason for the different " lounge-jazz sound " on this track.

Slayer's official biography states that " some critics praised the album as demonstrating Slayer's desire to grow musically and avoid repeating themselves.

Slayer's official biography states: " The new sounds disappointed some of the band's fans who were more accustomed to the style of earlier releases.

Anton Felix Schindler's biography of Beethoven " Beethoven as I Knew Him " states that his close connection with the composer was begun in 1815 when the latter requested an account of Schindler's involvement with a riot of Napoleon's supporters in Vienna, who were agitating against the Carbonari uprisings.

The short biography of Christie which is included in the present UK printings of all of her books states that this novel is her masterpiece.

It has been argued that, by turning the issue into a vote on Collins ' popularity, Brugha swung the majority against his own side ; Frank O ' Connor, in his biography of Collins, states that 2 delegates who had intended to vote against the Treaty changed sides in sympathy with Collins.

When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.

The rest of Aeneas's biography is gleaned from Livy: Aeneas was victorious but Latinus died in the war.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

According to the author of his biography in the Eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica: " Ambrose is interesting as typical of the new humanism which was growing up within the church.

In Elizabeth Gaskell's biography, Anne's father remembered her as precocious, reporting that once, when she was four years old, in reply to his question about what a child most wanted, she answered: " age and experience ".

His version of Columbus ' life, published in 1829, was more a romance than a biography.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

His biography was written by Saint Athanasius and titled Life of Saint Anthony the Great.

Translated to English by John Bester, the book was a biography of one of the last traditional Yakuza bosses in Japan.

Luther's complaints against the book carried past the point of scholarly critique and may reflect Luther's antisemitism, which is disputed, such as in the biography of Luther by Derek Wilson, which points out that Luther's anger at the Jews was not at their race but at their theology.

In his biography of rock legend Elton John, Philip Norman recounted that by his early teens, John ( then known as Reg Dwight ) was wearing glasses " not because he needed them, but in homage to Buddy Holly.

Nothing is known of the biography of the author of the book of Malachi although it has been suggested that he may have been Levitical ( which is curious, considering that Ezra was a priest.

* A German-language biography was published soon after Haley's death, written by Peter Cornelsen and Harald D. Kain.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

Scramuzza, in his biography, suggests that Silius may have convinced Messalina that Claudius was doomed, and the union was her only hope of retaining rank and protecting her children.

Near the end of his life, DeMille began pre-production work on a film biography of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement and had asked David Niven to star in the film, which was never made.

It is the church's de facto " official biography " of Eddy, though it was not published by the church.

Charlotte's friendship with fellow writer Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

In other words, by the simple fact that he was regarded as a hero, de Gozon was identified with a category, an archetype, which equipped him with a mythical biography from which it was impossible to omit combat with a reptilian monster.