When Madeleine was sworn in as secretary of state in January 1997, she made headlines around the world. She was the first woman to rise to the top tier of American government and had a reputation fo... more »

This revealing memoir includes hundreds of anecdotes, insights,observations, and personal details regarding every administration sinceKennedy's, offering a seasoned study of the relationship betwe... more »

A finely wrought memoir of mental health, Detour takes a genre explored by Susanna Kaysen and Kay Redfield Jamison and propels it in a revelatory and rebellious new direction. Detour is the extrao... more »

Mark Sundeen needed to stage a comeback. His first book was little read, rarely reviewed, and his book tour was cancelled. So when a careless big city publisher calls with an offer for a book about ... more »

In this marvelously researched and moving biography closely grounded in Frieda Fromm-Reichmann's work, Gail Hornstein brings back to life the maverick psychiatrist who accomplished what Freud and al... more »

The man Ulysses S. Grant most admired was Abraham Lincoln. In the Civil War, the aim of the four-star general was always to carry out Lincoln's policies. Grant's accomplishments as president were ... more »

Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer -- all are ex-friends of Norman Podhoretz, the renowned editor and critic and leading member of the group... more »

Israel's newest prime minister as of February 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon is a dynamic and controversial leader. A hero in Israel's wars, perhaps the most daring and successful commander in Israel's extra... more »

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident... more »

In the most candid look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, James J. Cramer, cofounder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years one of Wall Street's premier money managers, t... more »

Anne Robinson is the highest-paid female journalist in British history. She is also the notorious grand inquisitor of the prime-time television game show The Weakest Link. She is as hated a... more »

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Chamique Holdsclaw, star of the Washington Mystics, has been called thebest woman basketball player ever. Here is her story, from a difficultchildhood through her incredible record-setting champio... more »

Foote returns to Wharton, Texas, where he was born and where he againlives -- in the house in which he grew up -- to tell the stories of thereal people who have inspired his characters. Here is a ... more »

This is the story of a journey. It is the eagerly anticipated and altogether startling culmination of Shirley MacLaine's extraordinary -- and ultimately rewarding -- road through life. The rivetin... more »

Each time mid-wife Peggy Vincent "catches" a wet and wriggling baby, she encounters another memorable woman negotiating her unique path through the timeless drama of birth and renewal. Each time, ... more »

Actress Mariel Hemingway uses the lessons and practices of yoga as a starting point for her own personal reflections and a larger-than-life family story. The result is a searingly honest memoir that... more »

With the irreverence, gutsy spirit, and warmhearted hilarity that made Pagan Babies a classic, here is the Italian-American experience served up by the author who has been crowned the Patron Saint o... more »

In this memoir, a man whose sage counsel and discretion brought him to the right hand of mayors, governors, and presidents, shares his personal recollections and impressions of leaders and events ... more »

Many of history's greatest thinkers have wrestled with the ultimate question of belief and nonbelief in God. Though it seemed unlikely that any new arguments could possibly be raised on either sid... more »

Tom DeBaggio turned fifty-seven in 1999. One day he mentioned to his doctor that he seemed to be stumbling into forgetfulness. DeBaggio was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. He immediately b... more »

In his insightful new book, "The Clinton Enigma," noted journalist, David Maraniss dissects Clinton's four and a half minute, apologetic speech that concerned Monica Lewinsky to reveal the president... more »

Here is the remarkable story of U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton -- impassioned civil rights activist, hard-driving legislator, and one of the most powerful women in American history. They c... more »

Inspirational stories are themselves like chocolatethey warm our hearts and lift our spirits. These incredibly touching and true stories narrate how women have played important roles as mothers, wiv... more »