Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, politicalscientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run thegamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europeand the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect thecountry in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman- and the first black woman ever -- to serve as Secretary ofState. But until she was 25 she never learned to swim. Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she wasa little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public SafetyBull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools thangive black citizens access. Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largelysucceeded in insulating their children from the most corrosiveeffects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure thenext generation would live better than the last. But by 1963,when Rice was applying herself to her fourth grader's lessons, thesituation had grown intolerable. Birm

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepensour sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success inseizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggleas a mass movement, his recognition late in life that few of hisfollowers paid more than lip service to his ambitious goals ofsocial justice for the country’s minorities, outcasts, and ruralpoor. Pulitzer Prize–winner Joseph Lelyveld shows invivid, unmatched detail how Gandhi’s sense of mission, socialvalues, and philosophy of nonviolent resistance were shaped onanother subcontinent—during two decades in South Africa—and thentested by an India that quickly learned to revere him as a Mahatma,or “Great Soul,” while following him only a small part of the wayto the social transformation he envisioned. The man himself emergesas one of history’s most remarkable self-creations, a prosperouslawyer who became an ascetic in a loincloth wholly dedicated topolitical and social action. Lelyveld leads us step-

One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the otherchose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three,the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One wasright-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist.Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heartof their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell wereessentially the same man. Orwell is best known for "Animal Farm"and "1984," Waugh for "Brideshead Revisited" and comic novels like"Scoop" and "Vile Bodies." How ever different they may seem, thesetwo towering figures of twentieth-century literature are linked forthe first time in this engaging and unconventional biography, whichgoes beyond the story of their amazing lives to reach the core oftheir beliefs-a shared vision that was startlingly prescient aboutour own troubled times. Both Waugh and Orwell were born in 1903,into the same comfortable stratum of England's class-obsessedsociety. But at first glance they seem to have lived

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Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken forpublication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography ofone of the most influential, powerful, and admired public figuresof our time, by the most widely read biographer of our era. Anyonewho is a fan of Oprah Winfrey or who has followed her extraordinarylife and career will be fascinated and newly informed by theclosely observed, detailed, and well-rounded portrait of herprovided by Kitty Kelley’s exhaustively researched book. Readerswill come away with a greater appreciation of who Oprah really isbeyond her public persona and a fuller understanding of herimportant place in American cultural history.

Thirty years ago, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both thePulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A collector’s item inits original edition, it has never been out of print as apaperback. This classic book is now reissued in hardcover, alongwith Theodore Rex, to coincide with the publication of ColonelRoosevelt, the third and concluding volume of Edmund Morris’sdefinitive trilogy on the life of the twenty-sixth President. Although Theodore Rex fully recounts TR’s years in the WhiteHouse (1901–1909), The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt begins with abrilliant Prologue describing the President at the apex of hisinternational prestige. That was on New Year’s Day, 1907, when TR,who had just won the Nobel Peace Prize, threw open the doors of theWhite House to the American people and shook 8,150 hands, more thanany man before him. Morris re-creates the reception with suchauthentic detail that the reader gets almost as vivid an impressionof TR as those who attended. One visitor remarked