Biography: General

During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commenta...

Charlie Chaplin, the silent screens Little Tramp, was beloved by millions of movie fans until he starred in a salacious, real-life federal courtroo...

Uri Levine, founder of unicorns Waze and Moovit, brings you the ultimate guide to starting and running a business - with a bonus chapter on survivi...

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalins Soviet Union during the 1930s in different waves of mass repression. Under violent interrogati...

A definitive biography of the U.S. diplomat and prize-winning historian George F. KennanThe diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (19042005) rank...

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own wordsthe naturalist, tr...

Califano takes us into the Oval Office as the decisions that irrevocably changed the United States were being crafted to create Johnson's ambitious...

Every publication is searching for the magic key to open up their interviewees, a set of questions which can persuade even the most defensive subje...

This perfect balance of bold honesty and riotous wit (Shelf Awareness) from the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay explores Stefanie Wilde...

The mesmerizing biography of a brilliant and eccentric surgeon and his quest to transplant the human soul.In the early days of the Cold War, a spir...

In this book (previously published as Crippled America), were going to look at the state of the world right now. Its a terrible mess, and thats put...