The current generation knows him as Frank Costanza in Seinfeld. An older generation knows him as half of the comedy team Stiller andMeara. He writes with fondness about show business but, mo... more »

The idea that America should have an impregnable shield against nuclear weapons was Ronald Reagan's invention. He called on scientists to produce it, giving rise to the Strategic Defense Initiativ... more »

For forty years, he has been the Quiet Man of the NBA. With only John Wooden does Lenny Wilkens share the honor of being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice -- first as a player... more »

He has covered and analyzed nearly every major event of our time: the founding of NATO, the building of the Berlin Wall, the 1950s McCarthy hearings, and the 1990s Clinton impeachment hearings. As b... more »

This book, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, illuminates human nature, friendship, love, religious faith, ambition, betrayal, politics, and war in the life and times of the second ... more »

It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wal... more »

All eat from the bowl of life. Tiger Woods just has a bigger spoon.So writes Curt Sampson in his ground-breaking account of the current state of golf. Tiger Woods has changed golf forever. His mix ... more »

Author J. Randy Taraborrelli's scrupulously researched and completely balanced unauthorized biography of one of the world's most celebrated entertainers, the reader is allowed to draw his or her own... more »

Thomas Sowell's journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry. This is his story. I... more »

A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman wants the perfect life for her children. But when Augusta turns fifteen, she is drawn into a whirling vortex of troubled adolescence, hurting herself and her mot... more »

"My granddaddy would get mad at all of us. He couldn't just get mad at one of us. 'Ain't nobody got...You know what? Go to bed! All y'all, go to bed!'It'd be like two o'clock in the afternoon. 'Go... more »

At twenty Ronan Tynan had his legs amputated below the knee. Within a year he was winning races in the Paralympic Games. At Trinity College, he specialized in orthopedic sports injuries. After stu... more »

Leo Marks left his father's famous London bookshop in 1942, to go and fight in the war. Recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executiv... more »

"There is a myth in the United States -- you've heard it many times. It says that all American mothers hope that their child will grow up to be President of the United States. In my case that certai... more »

John Wooden, chosen "Coach of the Century" by ESPN, was a great teacher. One day, twenty-five years after graduating from UCLA, Andrew Hill realized how much he'd learned about managing peo... more »

This is an inspiring story that cancer patients as well as their families and loved ones will definitely relate to. The author, who herself suffered from leukemia or blood cancer, states that the ke... more »

Here is an intimate glimpse of the sixteenth president as husband andfather -- a cheerful man when he played with his children; a desolateman struck down with grief at the death of his son. The de... more »

When Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was flying thelongest leg of her around-the-world flight and was only days away fromcompleting her journey. Her plane was never found, and for ... more »

Twelve-year-old Jenny stepped off a bus in Reno straight into the wide-open future, following only her own heart. Her brother Bryan had chosen a tragic destiny, and Jenny began unraveling her ange... more »

GEISHA, A LIFE "No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, ... more »

The two-year-old toddler Elijah Paradiz was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism characterized by social awkwardness, a fixation with particular subjects, and literal-mindedness. <... more »

This charming and revealing look into former president George Bush's guiding principles has been culled from his speeches, interviews, and other writings. Heartbeat shows a man of personal ... more »

Terry Bradshaw has probably held more jobs than any other football Hall of Famer: pipeline worker, youth minister, professional singer, actor, talk show host... and winning quarterback in four<... more »

For Lewis Richmond, a 52-year-old Buddhist teacher, a devastating brain injury brought a hard journey to recovery. Love, courage, and the Buddhist teachings that sustained him throughout his adult... more »