In the first detailed account of the Truman presidency in almost 30 years, Jeffrey Frank engagingly considers Harry Truman’s most controversial decisions.
Historian Keisha N. Blain’s extensively researched chronicle ensures that Fannie Lou Hamer’s story—and her lessons for activists—will live on.
An admiring portrait of the great American playwright Lorraine Hansberry lays bare both her greatness and her complications.
Harvard professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin finally gives Constance Baker Motley, a legal pioneer who steered the civil rights movement, the recognition she deserves.
Like the handsome, stone-faced performer himself, this new biography of Buster Keaton has wide appeal.
Seven hundred years after Dante Alighieri’s death, a new biography parses the elusive life of one of civilization’s greatest poets.
This absorbing biography explores the public and very private life of Angela Merkel, the woman who served for 16 years as the head of the German government.
Anita Kunz’s wonderfully bold portraits capture more than 150 extraordinary women throughout history.
Journalist Tom Roston outlines the story behind Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, and the wartime trauma that inspired it.
People often think of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as a “swooning poetess,” but Fiona Sampson’s dazzling and absorbing biography is likely to change that.
When Joseph P. Kennedy campaigned to be ambassador to Great Britain, FDR made the appointment despite serious reservations. The result was diplomatic disaster.
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s exhaustive research for Empire of Pain makes him the natural choice to narrate his own audiobook.
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