With the release of Nancy Rubin Stuart's dual biography Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married, these books celebrate women who shaped nations, broke gender barriers and, in part, started and ended wars.(READ MORE)
The 32nd president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, wartime strategies, and "Infamy Speech" all transformed the United States’ path in the 20th century. Honoring his passing on April 12, we list the five best FDR biographies for your perusal. (READ MORE)
Lillian Faderman's My Mother’s Wars examines growing up as a survivor’s child, and sets the stage for other memoirs about the Jewish experience in the wake of unspeakable horrors.(READ MORE)
Bob Hurley's Chasing Perfect: The Will to Win in Basketball and Life is the most recent addition to the coach memoir category, and these five titles capture the pre-professional level’s highs and lows from the coach perspective.(READ MORE)
The Ides of March was a seriously lousy day for the dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. These five biographies shed light on an enigmatic and complex leader whose beliefs on war and power still resonate today. Veni, vidi, vici!(READ MORE)
Author Susan Spencer-Wendel’s new memoir, “Until I say Good-Bye: My Year of Living with Joy” has inspired us to examine writers who transcend tearjerking and remind us that memoir, unlike our mortal selves, can be an immortalizing medium.(READ MORE)
With the release of Tom Folsom’s “Hopper,” steeped in the language and bizarre fervor of Dennis Hopper’s legacy, we celebrate the actor's era when movie scripts flew out of Winnebagos and bad boys were exactly that: bad.(READ MORE)
To celebrate Frederick Douglass' birthday, refer to these top 6 books whenever you need a refresher on the great abolitionist, intellectual, orator and dissident.(READ MORE)
With the February release of "Whitey," the newest biography on last century’s most bloodthirsty of bosses, we've rounded up memoirs and biographies on other Mob leaders and wiseguys that still captivate our attention.(READ MORE)
Inspired by the recent release of "Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Near-Death Experience and Journey into the Afterlife," here for your perusal are books that offer balance in a conversation on religion and reason often marred by mutual condescension.(READ MORE)
