Biographies & Memoirs

Part 5
Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
by Andrea Mitchell
By then a national correspondent in Washington for NBC, I was driving back from an assignment when we got the first word. The office asked me to confirm the loss. It was one of many times in my career when I found myself torn between personal emotion

Part 4
Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
by Andrea Mitchell
In addition to the mayor's offices and city council chambers, City Hall housed the court of common pleas, the local criminal court. The corridors were lined with defendants awaiting trial, bail bondsmen, witnesses, lawyers, and other hustlers.

Part 3
Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
by Andrea Mitchell
Only two months later, on June 5, I was home watching the returns from the Democratic primary election in California when Bobby Kennedy was shot. In what seemed like an instant replay of the shock and horror of the King assassination

Part 2
Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
by Andrea Mitchell
Soon I had my own program, an hour of chamber music airing every Tuesday night at eight. Pretentiously, I called it 'Musica da Camera.' The theme was the third movement of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute.

Copyboy
Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels
by Andrea Mitchell
I'm not sure how I got to be so pushy. In the beginning, and even now, I wanted to emulate Miss Virginia Clair and be a lady and an ace reporter at the same time. It's a balancing act I'm still sorting out after nearly four decades in the business.

Part 2
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
And since I am already down there in supplication on the floor, let me hold that position as I reach back in time three years earlier to the moment when this entire story began a moment which also found me in this exact same posture: on my knees

One Woman's Search for Everything
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
I wish Giovanni would kiss me. Oh, but there are so many reasons why this would be a terrible idea. To begin with, Giovanni is ten years younger than I am, and like most Italian guys in their twenties he still lives with his mother.

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.

Hotel Rwanda, Part 5
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
After the two enemies had finished speaking, the elders would give their opinions, one by one, on what should be done to remedy the problem. It usually involved compensation.

Hotel Rwanda, Part 3
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
I was born on the side of a steep hill in the summer of 1954. My father was a farmer, my mother his helper. Our house was made of mud and sticks. We were about a mile away from the nearest village.

Hotel Rwanda, Part 2
An Ordinary Man
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
I remembered all too well what had happened at a place called Official Technical School in a suburb called Kicukiro, where nearly two thousand terrified refugees had gathered because there was a small detachment of United Nations soldiers staying there.

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.

Introduction
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Marshall Frady
Almost a geological age ago, it seems now-that great moral saga of belief and violence that unfolded in the musky deeps of the South during the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties.

Part 2
Marlon Brando
by Patricia Bosworth
He was starting to date. One of his first girlfriends, Carmelita Pope, remembers inviting him over for pasta; after they'd eaten, he would go out on the sunporch with her father, who was a lawyer, and ask him all sorts of questions.

Part 1
Marlon Brando
by Patricia Bosworth
Marlon Brando, nicknamed Bud, was born on April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska. At the time much of the state was recovering from a grasshopper plague that had turned the sky green.

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 3
Borges: A Life
by Edwin Williamson
The Conquest of the Desert made General Roca the strongman of Argentina. Anxious to avoid the instability that had plagued the country since independence, he created a political machine that secured power through systematic electoral fraud

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

The Sword and the Dagger
Borges: A Life
by Edwin Williamson
The ancestors of Jorge Luis Borges were among the first Europeans to arrive in America. Explorers, conquistadors, founders of cities, and rulers of provinces, they were builders of the vast empire that Spain was to establish in the New World.

My Life in the Kennedy White House, Part 3
A Lady, First: My Life in the Kennedy White House and the American Embassies of Paris and Rome
by Letitia Baldridge
Nana wore a pale gray silk dress, ghostlike, with a fresh rose at the V-shaped neckline. I was sure that it would stay fresh all the way to heaven, and of course she was wearing her pearl necklace. I never saw her without that.