JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disappeared ... more »

This new, in-depth life of Eisenhower offers fresh perspectives, not only on World War II and the Korean War but also on the Cold War, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, the U-2 crisis and Vietnam.          Geoffrey Perret's Eisenhower gives us, for the first ... more »

For the millions who enjoyed childhood summers spent away from home at camp, those moments are recalled with everything from dismay to nostalgic bliss. For Disney CEO Michael D. Eisner, the months he spent at Keewaydin summer camp, nestled in the mountains of Vermont, served as a cherished and invaluable ... more »

As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden's vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans. Unraveled is Housden's riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter, ... more »

Summoned from abroad to attend to the ninety-four-year-old father he's never been close to, writer and musician Tony Cohan finds himself reliving his own peripatetic life--a kaleidoscopic odyssey from California's sunny postwar promise through the burnt end of the 1960s to the final days of the last ... more »

"My mother prophesied years ago that my voice would take me places. She was certain that there was a reason I was able to sing. I am still discovering what that reason is, what it is that God wants to happen." -CLAY AIKEN, from Learning to Sing When he was a kid singing in his church choir ... more »

Dick Cheney is the most powerful yet most unpopular vice president in U.S. history. He has thrived alongside a president who from day one had little interest in policy and limited experience in the ways of Washington. Yet Cheney's quiet, steady rise to prominence over a span of three decades occurred ... more »

The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history's towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the Greatest Generation. In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two ... more »

For all that we know of Tom Arnold--such as his role as Roseanne's husband and co-star, writer and executive producer of her hit comedy show--there's even more that we don't know, starting with the pitch-perfect, hilarious voice he brings to this raunchy recitation of past exploits. Cast in the form ... more »

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In 1999, John McCain wrote one of the most acclaimed and bestselling memoirs of the decade, Faith of My Fathers. That book ended in 1972, with McCain's release from imprisonment in Vietnam. This is the rest of his story, about his great American journey from the U.S. Navy to his electrifying run for ... more »

Now in paperback -- the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called "as charming and welcome as an early spring down home." As satisfying, soothing, and occasionally suprising as a plate of turnip greens with a dash of pepper sauce, Due South is a book to be read and savored. more »