Biography & Memoir
The Art and Politics of Science
Paperback
A Nobel Prize–winning cancer biologist, leader of major scientific institutions, and scientific adviser to President Obama reflects on his remarkable career.
Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
Hardback
Two titans of twentieth-century thought: their lives, loves, ideas, and politics.
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography
Paperback
A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book and a Washington Post Best of 2008: “A book worthy of Keats—full of feeling and drama and those fleeting moments we call genius.”—Ted Genoways, Washington Post Book World
Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World
Paperback
"Exhilarating . . . strikes a balance between the personal and the abstract."—Edward Rothstein, New York Times
The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War
Hardback
The books altered the course of history; the lives behind them have the dark fascination of fiction.