Biography & Memoir

Beethoven: The Music and the Life
Paperback
An authoritative work offering a fresh look at Beethoven’s life, career, and milieu. “Magisterial” —New York Review of Books.

Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life
Paperback
The hidden life of Alfred C. Kinsey, the principal architect of the sexual revolution.

Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image
Paperback
How an image-obsessed president transformed the way we think about politics and politicians.

A Mind for Murder: The Education of the Unabomber and the Origins of Modern Terrorism
Paperback
"With its unusual emphasis and sometimes surprisingly personal tone, this may become the definitive Kaczynksi volume."—Publishers Weekly

Regions of the Great Heresy: Bruno Schulz, A Biographical Portrait
Paperback
"A prolonged labor of love [and] a model of a kind of penetrating adoration."—Richard Bernstein, New York Times


