Biographies & Memoirs

Includes Source List, Bibliography, Index Of Names, And Index Of Subjects. Contains Over 4,000 Anecdotes About More Than 2,000 Famous People From Around The...

The Renowned Classicist Presents A Revisionist Portrait Of Pontius Pilate That Reconstructs The Social, Religious, And Political Climates Behind His Fateful...

Volume 2. Before We Begin . . . -- 1. Something Wrong -- 2. Good Enough -- 3. Break All The _____ China -- 4. The President's Night Out -- 5. Hatchet Man --...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted ...

Paris, 1933. Three Contemporaries Meet Over Apricot Cocktails At The Bec-de-gaz Bar On The Rue Montparnasse-- And Ignite A Movement, Creating An Entirely Ne...

A behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour — the provocative, politically charged program that shocked the censor...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Do we need still another Watergate book? The answer turns out to be yes—this one.” —The Washington Post * “Dazzling.â...

In an intimate talk with his protégé, the great sculptor offers candid, wide-ranging comments on a diverse range of topics: the meaning of art; other fame...

Caracalla' Has One Of The Worst Reputations Of Any Roman Emperor. Many Ancient Historians Were Very Hostile And Edward Gibbon Later Dubbed Him The Common En...

A fascinating history of the Jews, told by a master novelist, here is Chaim Potok's fascinating, moving four thousand-year history. Recreating great histori...

President Bill Clinton’s My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided early in life to devote his intellectual and political ...

Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared be...

Review «Una biografía repleta de detalles. Kamala Harris omitió muchos detalles eb su propia autobiografía. Dan Morain se ha encargado de llenar mu...

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the ep...

First published in 1989, I Dream a World, a collection of 75 portraits, has become a landmark in publishing history. Now the 10th anniversary of this book ...

Half A Life Is A Luminously Written Memoir That Will Stand Beside Such Autobiographical Classics As This Boy's Life, Stop Time, And The Liars' Club. A Scrup...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

Do not let the title Kelly Tough fool you. This is not a “be all you can be, no pain–no gain” story. Toughness is overrated. And being Kelly Tough, we...

Iron Maiden Book of Souls is the celebration of the band, providing their story in beautiful illustrations including posters, and rare photos of the band’...

A RECOMMENDED SUMMER READ BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, TIME, AND NEWSWEEK Longtime Jeopardy! host and television icon Alex Trebek reflects on his life ...

Product Description Avant que la lucidité ne le quitte à jamais, un homme écrit à la femme de sa vie, dans le chaos absolu d'une mémoire vacillant...

Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, Hunter S. Thompson is back with another astonishing volume of his private correspondence, the highly anticipated ...

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John Brookes is one of the world's most respected master gardeners; his more than 1,200 designs have forced a major rethinking of what gardens can be. This ...

This "stunningly beautiful memoir" (San Francisco Chronicle) is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and Paul Dano. Nick Flynn met his father...

A star was born on March 25, 1920 in the quiet rural community of Plowden in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica. Arthur Stanley Wint is perhaps best known as...

In the most extraordinary book Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Gr...

From the bestselling author of The Wingfeather Saga and award-winning musician and storyteller, Andrew Peterson. Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, ...

A Frank, Funny, No-holds-barred Memoir, Here's The Deal Reveals Mandel's Ongoing Struggle With Ocd And Adhd--and Tells How It Has Shaped His Life And Career...

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers--an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an...

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. ...

Rudolf Nureyev had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and ...

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fully Revised And Updatednational Bestsellerwinner Of The Canadian Authors Association Birks Family Foundation Award For Biographyfinalist For The Writers’ ...

Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a ...

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The Author Recounts His Lifelong Battle With Anxiety, Showing The Many Manifestations Of The Disorder As Well As The Countless Treatments That Have Been Dev...

Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017 Washington Post Best Book of 2017 Amazon Editors' Top 100 Pick of the Year Amazon Best Humor and Entertainment Pick of ...

“Mr. Townshend’s self-portrait is raw and unsparing . . .as intimate and as painful as a therapy session.” ―MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES Lo...

When Dr. Reggie Anderson Is Present At The Bedside Of A Dying Patient, Something Miraculous Happens. Sometimes As He Sits Vigil And Holds The Patient’s Ha...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was list...

Ever wonder what it takes to become an air traffic controller? Or how controllers make the whole complex system work? Life With a View is a memoir written ...

This book traces the spiritual journey of Satish Kumar: child monk, peace pilgrim, ecological activist, and educator. In it he recounts the sources of inspi...

Recounts the disappearance of 21-year-old college student Mark Kilroy, and the discovery that he was the victim of a drug cult that practiced human sacrific...

The First Biography In Over Thirty Years Of Condé Nast, The Pioneering Publisher Of Vogue And Vanity Fair And Main Rival To Media Magnate William Randolph...

This Book Follows Marilyn During The Year Before Her Death, And The Mass Hysteria That Followed In The Wake Of Her Assassination. No Death In The 20th Centu...