Biography & Memoir
Louis XIV: The Power and the Glory
Hardcover
An intelligent, authoritative, and often surprising biography of the most famous of French monarchs, by an acclaimed biographer and historian.
Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Hardcover
A mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.
Stalin's Scribe: Literature, Ambition, and Survival: The Life of Mikhail Sholokhov
Hardcover
A masterful and definitive biography of one of the most misunderstood and controversial writers in Russian literature.
Marlene Dietrich: The Life
Paperback
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich.
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Hardcover
With kaleidoscopic insights, Elizabeth D. Samet has produced the most ambitious edition of Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs yet.