Biography & Memoir
This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
Paperback
A searing essay collection that explores displacement and loss, creativity and change, institutional power and progress
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Paperback
A seminal biography of Thomas Jefferson and a fascinating exploration of his relationship with Sally Hemings.
Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
Hardback
For his centennial, an indispensable biography of Artie Shaw, the legendary big-band leader, virtuoso clarinetist, and renegade in music and romance.
To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
Paperback
The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest—along with other formerly enslaved people—to define freedom after the Civil War
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience
Paperback
On the 150th anniversary of his birth comes this monumental biography of conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose dramatic life was unparalleled among twentieth-century musicians.