Biography & Memoir
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
Paperback
"The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo." —Newsweek
Sketches from a Life
Paperback
Written originally as a series of entries in a travel diary and now considered one of the most important memoirs of our time, Sketches from a Life is George F. Kennan's peerless, impressionistic record of his experiences with twentieth-century history.
Stanley Kubrick, Director: A Visual Analysis
Paperback
Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation.
Hemingway: The Final Years
Paperback
Hemingway's triumphs as a writer during the 1940s and 1950s accompanied a life of risk and danger.
Geons, Black Holes, and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics
Paperback
Winner of the American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award
"This delightful account is packed with insights…[Wheeler] is a consummately American physicist whose wide-ranging career spans much of a disturbing century." —Michael Riordan, New York Times Book Review