Biographies & Memoirs

Steeples and Spires, Part 3
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
He was a diligent student at Oxford. His three-year degree course saw him following in his father's and his elder brother's footsteps in law. The young Blair found plenty of time for rock music and girlfriends, but he also worked hard to secure a good

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.

Steeples and Spires
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
Tony Blair grew up on a journey through the pages of British history. The nation's future prime minister lived his early life among the church steeples, ancient clock towers, and medieval quadrangles that are the childhood playgrounds of England's

Introduction, Part 2
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
There are echoes of an earlier age in Tony Blair's premiership. His approach to foreign policy has its roots in the interventionism of the nineteenth-century Liberal British prime minister William Gladstone.

Introduction
Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader
by Philip Stephens
On March 18, 2003, the atmosphere in the ornate wood-paneled chamber of Britain's House of Commons crackled with electricity. The green leather benches of the nation's legislative chamber were packed to overflowing.

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.

Part 3
George Herbert Walker Bush
by Tom Wicker
On its fifth anniversary, Offshore was listed on the American Stock Exchange and had attracted twenty-two hundred stockholders. The company occupied offices in the Houston Club building, had a fleet of four monster drilling rigs, employed 195 people

Part 1
George Herbert Walker Bush
by Tom Wicker
Not long after George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first president of the United States, left office in 1993 and returned to Texas, an old acquaintance found himself at loose ends in Houston.

Tug of War, Part 3
Ten Minutes from Normal
by Karen Hughes
Jerry, always objective, even argued the positive. 'Another year at this school and Robert will have the foundation to go to any college he wants to,' he said, referring to St. Albans, the top Episcopal all-boys school our son had chosen to attend

Tug of War, Part 2
Ten Minutes from Normal
by Karen Hughes
I understood how torn he felt. My own feelings were mixed, and partly selfish. I thought George Bush would be a wonderful president - I also thought he was too decent a person to wish the presidency on him.

Tug of War
Ten Minutes from Normal
by Karen Hughes
'Maybe we should just move back home this summer,' I said, and the look of relief that immediately crossed his face confirmed what I had suspected, what my husband still denies, but that all our friends believe - that he deeply missed Texas and was ready

Introduction
Ten Minutes from Normal
by Karen Hughes
The rhythmic rocking of the train felt unnatural, slow and lethargic, a marked contrast to the hyperactivity of the just-finished Republican National Convention. A convention is a riot of balloons, speeches, people and parties.

Samuel Rosenberg's Daughters, Part 2
Missing Men: A Memoir
by Joyce Johnson
A month after her death, I reluctantly spent my first day in her apartment dumping old sweaters, yellowed handkerchiefs, and ancient tea towels into plastic garbage bags. In her desk, I found bundles of old letters and papers and a collection of address

Samuel Rosenberg's Daughters
Missing Men: A Memoir
by Joyce Johnson
I once had a husband who started obsessively painting squares - three squares in shifting relationships to each other on what appeared flat ground, colored emptiness. He explained to me that the negative space in his work was as important as the positive

Part 3
Farewell, Jackie
by Edward Klein
After Onassis died in 1975, Jackie was automatically eligible again to receive the sacraments of the Church. But almost fifteen years after his death, Jackie was still struggling to cleanse her reputation of the tabloid sludge.

The Real Jackie
Farewell, Jackie
by Edward Klein
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is still so much with us that it is hard to believe she has been gone for ten long years. Perhaps that is because the blazing klieg lights of attention that pursued Jackie during her lifetime did not forsake her in death.

Part 3
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
After the family returned to Madison, Anna apparently decided that her son's carefully nurtured artistic sensibilities might have gone a bit overboard. Unlike the large, robust Lloyd Jones men, Frank was a small, solitary child content to read, draw

Part 2
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
In his account of the breakup of the marriage, written years later, after his mother's death, Wright accepted her claim of abandonment, although he had to have been keenly aware of what was really going on.

Part 1
Frank Lloyd Wright
by Ada Louise Huxtable
The life starts with a lie: a changed birth date, from 1867 to 1869, the sort of small, white vanity lie usually embraced by women but common also among men. Like most age changes, it was done later in life.

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.