Biographies & Memoirs

My Life in the Kennedy White House
A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
by Letitia Baldridge
Most people look upon Miami Beach as a place where you go to get old and play golf, or as a place to go when you're young, to partake of 'what's hot' at the South Beach nightspots.

Childhood, Part 3
'Shakespeare' by Another Name
by Mark Anderson
The year 1558 marked two major events in Edward de Vere's life: He began his brief university career, and his queen came to the throne. The two were probably connected. As a Protestant and a former Secretary of State, Smith expected that he would hold

First, Put Yourself in the Game
It's All Lies and That's the Truth
by Bernie Brillstein
Now that we're getting to the end of this preamble, I want to make sure I've been absolutely clear about one thing: The Little Stuff Matters Most is not a book of secrets.

Dante the Florentine
Dante
by R.W.B. Lewis, Ph.D.
As you walk across the Ponte Vecchio in Florence today, you come upon a plaque bearing a passage from Dante's Divine Comedy. The lines are spoken by Dante's ancestor Cacciaguida, whom the poet encounters in one of the higher spheres of heaven

Introduction
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
There are two lives of Frank Lloyd Wright: the one he created and the one he lived. The first, his own embellished version, is the standard Wright mythology - the architect as maverick genius and embattled, misunderstood loner.

Steeples and Spires, Part 2
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
Though he could scarcely have known it at the time, Tony Blair took something else from this stifling world behind high walls. As he began to prosper in politics it was soon obvious that he was a remarkable actor.

The Hunger for Certainty, Part 2
Martin Luther
by Martin E. Marty, Ph.D.
Luther's professors, adapting what some called the modern way and others referred to as the nominalism of Ockham and Biel, stressed a commonsense counsel: Test theory by experience.

Part 2
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
by Eileen Warburton
Twenty-six when he enlisted as an officer in the Honourable Artillery Company, Robert saw three years of action in the trenches of Flanders. Memories of comrades dying beside him in battle tormented him throughout his life.

Part 4
Borges: A Life
by Edwin Williamson
There was, of course, no hope of turning back the tide of change. The new leaders of society-the great estancieros-rapidly developed a cosmopolitan outlook. Even though the Argentine economy depended overwhelmingly on British capital, it was France

Part 4
George Herbert Walker Bush
by Tom Wicker
If luck seemed to have deserted George Bush when Johnson was sworn in as president within an hour of Kennedy's death, Bush's political fortunes were quickly reversed after 1964.

A Perfect Frenchman, Part 4
The Man Who Tried to Buy the World: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal
by Martine Orange
However, Messier knew he would never reach the top of the merchant bank. One man stood in his way: Edouard Stern. 'Would I have been able to tempt him away without Edouard?'

Hotel Rwanda
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
My name is Paul Rusesabagina. I am a hotel manager. In April 1994, when a wave of mass murder broke out in my country, I was able to hide 1,268 people inside the hotel where I worked.

A Memoir of My Years in the White House, Part 2
Ronald Reagan in Private
by Jim Kuhn
At Chateau Fleur d'Eau, I was uneasy as Gorbachev's motorcade got closer and closer and Reagan donned his blue cashmere coat and white scarf. So much rode on this first encounter. Why did the president need to wear a coat?

Part 3
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
by Lesley Downer
It was a struggle to tame such a wild and willful little girl. But Kamekichi had high ambitions for her. She sent her off to teachers to learn the skills that would make her a star geisha without quenching her spark and spirit.

Part 2
Borges: A Life
by Edwin Williamson
The tyrant was finally deposed in 1852, when his many enemies united to defeat him at the Battle of Caseros. But the victor of Caseros was yet another caudillo, General Urquiza, the boss of the rival province of Entre Ríos, who managed to topple

Part 2
Simone Weil
by Francine du Plessix Gray
A few months after the war's end, as her family was settling back into their apartment on Boulevard Saint-Michel, Mme Weil noticed that Simone was nowhere to be seen.

Part 4
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
by Eileen Warburton
The other three-quarters of Robert Fowles's intellectual reading was in philosophy, with which he was fascinated.33 He favored the seventeenth-century Continental Rationalists, like Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnit (1646-1716).

Part 3
Robert E. Lee
by Roy Blount
Sometimes eleven Oneida warriors, on their own horses, joined his cavalry troop for the sport of the thing. Harry learned their language and sat them down to dine in the field with him and the other officers, from chinaware and sterling cups.

I Saw a Saint at Sunset
John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father
by Peggy Noonan
It was early morning in the Vatican, July 2, 2003, a brilliant morning in the middle of the worst Roman heat wave in a century. The city was quiet, the streets soft with the heat.

Voices in the Garden
John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds
by Eileen Warburton
It was not a show garden, although its owner loved to show it to visitors. It was the secret place of a solitary, turned in upon itself, not facing the outside world at all. The single acre of the Belmont House garden spread over a steep slope, dense