Churchill
by Roy Jenkins
Nov 2001 Hardcover $37.50

Winston Churchill is an icon of modern history, but even though he was at the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, he might be remembered only as a minor player in the drama of British government had it not been for World War II. In this magisterial book, Roy Jenkins's unparalleled command of the political history of Britain and his own high-level experience combine in a narrative account of Churchill's astounding career that is unmatched in its shrewd insights, its unforgettable anecdotes, the clarity of its overarching themes, and the author's nuanced appreciation of his extraordinary subject.

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
Sep 2001 Hardcover $29.95

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford Nancy Milfored came to the Sackler for a reading this fall and I haven't enjoyed an author event more. I read the book every chance I got and recently picked up the newly published Modern Library edition of The Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize, Millay was dazzling in the performance of herself. Her voice was likened to an instrument of seduction and her impact on crowds, and on men, was legendary. Yet beneath her studied act, all was not well. Nancy Milford was given exclusive access to Millay's papers, and what she found was an extraordinary treasure. Boxes and boxes of letter flew back and forth among the three sisters and their mother--and Millay kept the most intimate diary, one whose ruthless honesty brings to mind Sylvia Plath. Written with passion and flair, Savage Beauty is an iconic portrait of a woman's life.

Richard Wright: The Life and Times
by Hazel Rowley
Aug 2001 Hardcover $35.00

"Everything a literary biography should be." -- The New York Times

"As she often does throughout this rich and revealing biography, Rowley simply lets the facts speak for themselves." -- San Francisco Chronicle

"Rowley's book is bursting with juicy anecdotes, yet the biographer manages always to be fair-minded and non-judgemental. -- Washington Post

"The strength of "Richard Wright" is [Rowley's] painstaking research."-- New York Times Book Review

Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
Nov 2001 Hardcover $35.00

Theodore Rex is a sequel to Edmund Morris's classic bestseller The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. It begins by following the new President (still the youngest in American history) as he comes down from Mount Marcy, New York, to take his emergency oath of office in Buffalo, one hundred years ago and in the final chapter, the great "Teddy" prepares to quit the White House Full of cinematic detail, it moves with the exhilarating pace of a novel, yet rides on a granite base of scholarship. TR’s own voice is constantly heard, as are the many witticisms of such Roosevelt intimates as Henry Adams, John Hay, and Elihu Root.

Mark Twain
by Geoffrey C. Ward, Dayton Duncan, and Ken Burns
Nov 2001 hc $40.00

My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
by Alfred Habegger
Oct 2001 hc $35.00

John Adams
by David McCullough
May 2001 hc $35.00

Norman Rockwell
by Laura Claridge
Oct 2001 hc $35.00

Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia Fraser
Sep 2001 hc $35.00

A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash. Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
by Sylvia Nasar
Dec 2001 pb $16.00

Marcel Proust: A Life
by Jean-Yves Tadie
Nov 2001 pb $20.00

Ho Chi Minh: A Life
by William J. Duiker
Nov 2001 pb $16.95

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician
by Christoph Wolff
Sep 2001 pb $18.95

Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
by David Starkey
Dec 2001 pb $14.95

The Rasputin File
by Edvard Radzinsky
Dec 2001 pb $16.00

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