Karen DeYoung is an associate editor at The Washington Post , where she has held a number of senior editing positions and served as a foreign policy reporter in Washington and correspondent abroad. She is the recipient of numerous awards for foreign correspondence and for diplomatic and explanatory journalism ... 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 »

She charmed America with her smart, likable, down-to-earth personality as she campaigned for her husband, then vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. She inspired millions as she valiantly fought advanced breast cancer after being diagnosed only days before the 2004 election. She touched hundreds ... more »

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For more than six decades she has been part of our lives. An American icon, Elizabeth Taylor has been surrounded by fame and notoriety since childhood. Now acclaimed biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli looks past the tabloid version of Elizabeth's life to the person she really is-and how she evolved from ... more »

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Karen Southwick s unauthorized account provides the full story of Larry Ellison s brilliant, controversial career. Ellison s drive and fierce ambition created Oracle out of the dust and built it into one of America s great technology companies, but his unpredictable management style keeps it constantly ... more »

David Lindsay, researching old records to learn details of the life of his ancestor, Richard More, soon found himself in the position of the Sorcerer's Apprentice -- wherever he looked for one item, ten more appeared. What he was finding not only illuminated More's own life but painted a clear and satisfying ... more »