Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds the book of their words and the book of their art.
I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville Florida. The show called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin ' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.