The former president does not plan to write his autobiography. Here is a collection of his letters, diary entries, and memos -- with accompanying commentary -- that will help fill that void. Organized chronologically, the writings provide a surprisingly intimate and insightful portrayal of the forty ... more »

The Gore who comes to life in these pages is an intelligent and competent man, struggling with self-doubt and insecurity that explain his bureaucratic obsession with fact and his tendency to exaggerate his accomplishments. Gore's path to power, at first glance, seems straight and narrow. While Bill Clinton ... more »

Foote returns to Wharton, Texas, where he was born and where he again lives -- in the house in which he grew up -- to tell the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters. Here is a celebration of community and a gorgeous testimony to the human spirit. more »

As a child, Gina Cascone would hide under her bed, in the closet, and run away from her parents, hoping somehow to escape her worst fear. But she couldn't hide from the awful truth... She had to go to Catholic school. Do nuns have legs? Is Original Sin the starter sin for novices? Can the rosary be said ... more »

In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed , David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestseller ... more »

Why does she stay with him? Where does she go from here? The author who revealed a generation's Passages now answers all the questions about the most talked-about First Lady in American history. In Hillary's Choice, Hillary Clinton is rendered fully human for the first time. Here is the life of a woman ... more »

When the ship veered into the Cape of Good Hope, Mum caught the spicy, heady scent of Africa on the changing wind. She smelled the people: raw onions and salt, the smell of people who are not afraid to eat meat, and who smoke fish over open fires on the beach and who pound maize into meal and who work ... more »

George Washington is by far the most important figure in the history of the United States. Against all military odds, he liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire and presided over the process to produce and ratify a Constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted ... more »

In the late 1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic journey. Cork Boat tells the story of Pollacks improbable ... more »

Meet Evelyn Ryan, mother of six sons and four daughters, who kept her family afloat during the contest era of the 1950s and 1960s by writing jingles and entering TV, radio, newspaper, and direct-mail contests. Her infectious joy and winning spirit triumphed, providing her humble family with bikes, cars ... more »

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.... There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ... more »

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon ... more »