Biography & Memoir
The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled
Paperback
"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."—Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat
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.