Biography & Memoir
The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor
Paperback
"Randel is endlessly fascinating, and Holloway’s biography tells his life with great skill." —Steve Weinberg, USA Today
The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris
Paperback
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
"Reading this excellent, thought-provoking biography, one is all too easily reminded of Camus’s 1942 novel, The Stranger." —Philip Kerr, Wall Street Journal
Breaking New Ground: A Personal History
Hardback
An inspirational memoir tracing Lester Brown’s life from a small-farm childhood to leadership as a global environmental activist.
Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch
Hardback
An unprecedented look at the life of Rose Kennedy reveals the private woman who became a political legend.
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman
Hardback
The first biography in over sixty years of a great American artist whose paintings are more famous than the man who made them.