Biography
PRIME MINISTERS: AN INTIMATE NARRATIVE OF ISRAELI LEADERSHIP
Written by Avner, Yehuda
This intimate narrative takes the reader behind the scenes into the chambers of Prime Ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzchak Rabin, and Menachem Begin on whose personal staffs the author served.
YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN: A PERSONAL HISTORY
Written by Zinn, Howard
A new edition of Howard Zinn's landmark memoir that chronicles his lifelong commitment to social justice and steadfast belief that ordinary people can change history In You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, legendary activist, author, and educator Howard Zinn chronicles more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teac
ORIANA FALLACI: THE JOURNALIST, THE AGITATOR, THE LEGEND
Written by de Stefano, Cristina
A landmark biography of the most famous Italian journalist of the twentieth century, an inspiring and often controversial woman who defied the codes of reportage and established the "La Fallaci" style of interview. Oriana Fallaci is known for her uncompromising vision. To retrace Fallaci's life means to retrace the course of history from World War II to 9/11.
AL CAPONE: HIS LIFE AND LEGACY
Written by Bair, Deirdre
From a National Book Award-winning biographer, the first complete life of legendary gangster Al Capone to be produced with the cooperation of his family, who provided the author with exclusive access to personal testimony and archival documents.
LETTERS TO VERA
Written by Nabokov, Vladimir
No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Vera Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life's trifles and literature's treasures, and he rated her as having the best and quickest sense of humor of any woman he had met.
HIS FINAL BATTLE: THE LAST MONTHS OF FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
Written by Lelyveld, Joseph
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book
HITLER: ASCENT, 1889-1939
Written by Ullrich, Volker
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography A New York Times bestseller, this major new biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs. Volker Ullrich's Hitler, the first in a two-volume biography, has changed the way scholars and laypeople alike understand the man who has become the p
VICTORIA & ABDUL (MOVIE TIE-IN): THE TRUE STORY OF THE QUEEN'S CLOSEST CONFIDANT
Written by Basu, Shrabani
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears, releasing September 22, 2017.
LOVING PABLO, HATING ESCOBAR
Written by Vallejo, Virginia
A revealing memoir of Colombian television journalist Virginia Vallejo's affair with the "King of Cocaine," notorious Medellin drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. At 33, Virginia Vallejo was part of the media elite.
LENIN: THE MAN, THE DICTATOR, AND THE MASTER OF TERROR
Written by Sebestyen, Victor
A fascinating biography of the man who helped launch the Russian Revolution, which uses the personal--including Lenin's key relationships with the women in his life--to shed light on the political.
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