Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only onewhose greatness increased out of office. When he toured Europe in1910 as plain “Colonel Roosevelt,” he was hailed as the most famousman in the world. Crowned heads vied to put him up in theirpalaces. “If I see another king,” he joked, “I think I shall bitehim.” Had TR won his historic “Bull Moose” campaign in1912 (when he outpolled the sitting president, William HowardTaft), he might have averted World War I, so great was hisinternational influence. Had he not died in 1919, at the early ageof sixty, he would unquestionably have been reelected to a thirdterm in the White House and completed the work he began in 1901 ofestablishing the United States as a model democracy, militarilystrong and socially just. This biography by Edmund Morris, the PulitzerPrize and National Book Award–winning author of The Rise ofTheodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, is itself the completion of atrilogy sure to stand as definitive. Packed with m

Michael Jackson: The Making of "Thriller" is an illustratedtribute to the King of Pop and his groundbreaking music video, withnever-before-seen photos of its creation. The book features over200 exclusive, behind-the-scenes photographs of the artist on setduring the 1983 production of the Grammy award winning videodirected by John Landis. Considered to be the most successful project of all time,"Thriller" is beloved the world over, inspiring imitation and acult-like following of millions of fans. Documenting the creationof the most popular and iconic music video of all time, this bookcelebrates the artist and his music at the top of his career. Famed photographer Douglas Kirkland and journalist Nancy Griffinwere the only members of the media allowed on the set of the video.The resulting photos capture Jackson both in high performance modeand relaxing on the set and depict his transformation into thecharacters in the video as well capturing the public and privatefaces of Michael Jackson.

From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowaborder, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at IowaState University, after a frustrating day performing tediousmathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that thebinary number system and electronic switches, com?bined with anarray of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, couldyield a computing machine that would make his life and the lives ofother similarly burdened scientists easier. Then he went back andbuilt the machine. It worked. The whole world changed. Why don’t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we knowthose of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he neverpatented the device, and because the developers of thefar-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas fromhim. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that SperryRand device was invalid, opening the intellectual

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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

Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called“one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationallyrenowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for theeighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson returnmore than forty leopards and lions—including the celebratedChristian—to the wild in central Kenya. Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. Itshows how a man driven by an impossibly restless spirit can doalmost anything, from being a bouncer in a brothel, to surviving avicious lion attack, to fighting with the Tanzanian government, tobeing appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire bythe Queen. A notorious hell-raiser given to scrapes with bandits, evilpolicemen, and wicked politicians, who has been shot at by poachersand chewed up by lions, Fitzjohn is also a wonderful raconteur.Shenanigans aside, he belongs to that rare species of humans whohave sought refuge and meaning in a life truly dedi

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.

Ernest Hemingway called Huckleberry Finn “the best book we’veever had. There was nothing before. There’s been nothing as goodsince.” Critical opinion of this book hasn’t dimmed since Hemingwayuttered these words; as author Russell Banks says in these pages,Twain “makes possible an American literature which would otherwisenot have been possible.” He was the most famous American of hisday, and remains in ours the most universally revered Americanwriter. Here the master storytellers Geoffrey Ward, Ken Burns, andDayton Duncan give us the first fully illustrated biography of MarkTwain, American literature’s touchstone, its funniest and mostinventive figure. This book pulls together material from a variety of published andunpublished sources. It examines not merely his justly famousnovels, stories, travelogues, and lectures, but also his diaries,letters, and 275 illustrations and photographs from throughout hislife. The authors take us from Samuel Langhorne Clemens’s boyhoodin Hanniba