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by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s...
Shoot the Widow
Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
The first rule of biography, wrote Justin Kaplan: “Shoot the widow.”
In her new book, Meryle Secrest, acclaimed biographer (“Knowing, sympathetic and entertainingly droll”—The New York Times), writes about her comic triumphs and misadventures as a biographer in search of her nine...
The Ministry of Truth
The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
**"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.”
--George Packer, *The Atlantic *
An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War,...
Autumn in Venice
Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In the fall of 1948, Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife traveled for the first time to Venice, which Hemingway called “absolutely god-damned wonderful.” A year shy of his fiftieth birthday, Hemingway hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade when he met and fell in love with Adriana Ivancich,...
Saint-exupery
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring...
Reading Jackie
Her Autobiography in Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors,...
Murder by the Book
The Crime That Shocked Dickens's London
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
**"Enthralling . . . A page-turner that can hold its own with any one of the many murder-minded podcasts out there."
—Jezebel
From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William...
Our Man
Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
**"Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic history and a Shakespearean tragicomedy... If you could read one book to comprehend American's foreign policy and its quixotic forays into quicksands over the past 50 years, this would be...
The Natural
The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military,...
Rising Out of Hatred
The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
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 epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a...
by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Dedicated to the Allied Soldier, Sailor and Airman of WWII.
by Patti Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades...
by Ramachandra Guha
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential--and controversial--men in world history.
This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi's arrival...
by Barry Goldwater
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Barry Goldwater is a principled politican in a world where the species seems endangered, a man of profound convcition about government and law, the grand old man of the Grand Old Party, respected as much by those who disagree with him as by those who share his views. Goldwater is at once a revealing...