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therealdrag0
01-20-2010, 10:39 PM
This is probably a queer request. I'm looking for a very good biography--preferablely an auto--by someone who is an INTJ (as I am) on the Myers-Briggs personality scale:
Here' is a list of notable INTJ's from wikipedia:

Dan Aykroyd
Jane Austen
Augustus Caesar
Chevy Chase
Calvin Coolidge
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rudy Giuliani
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
C.S. Lewis
Isaac Newton
Plato
General Colin Powell
Ayn Rand
Donald Rumsfeld
Albert Speer

I've already read C.S. Lewis' Autobiography and enjoyed it immensely. There is also another list of INTJ's [here (http://typelogic.com/intj.html)]

Thank you very much for your suggestions. I know I could just Amazon these names and try out books but I want books that are tried and tested and recognized to be good. Thanks.

dfloyd
01-20-2010, 11:45 PM
The Autobiogrphy of Benvenuto Cellini and the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

neilgee
01-21-2010, 03:54 AM
There is a biography of Augustus Caesar but it wasn't very good.

Isn't the James Joyce biography an JNT? That's supposed to be the best biography around, tho I still havn't read it myself.

bazarov
01-21-2010, 05:06 AM
Whenever I see a question like this, I remember Dostoevsky's quote:''No men can be so honest to tell the truth about himself.'' (pointing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions). And also, what kind of men believes his life is so interesting and important for whole mankind so they should find it out? In my opinion, one of the greatest levels of narcissism.

Sorry, maybe a bit OT :D

dfloyd
01-21-2010, 12:10 PM
try the Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius. Translated into English in the 17th or 18th century (I forget which), it makes for fascinating reading. It includes the sex lives of the Caesars. This is unusual since the translation was by a Protgestant minister.