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  • J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets

    Curt Gentry

    Paperback

    "The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo." —Newsweek

  • Sketches from a Life

    George F. Kennan

    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

    Ulrich Ruchti, Sybil Taylor, Alexander Walker

    Paperback

    Alexander Walker's Stanley Kubrick, Director is the only book ever written with Kubrick's cooperation.

  • Hemingway: The Final Years

    Michael Reynolds

    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

    John Archibald Wheeler, Kenneth Ford

    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