In a book that is both biography and the most exciting form ofhistory, here are eighteen years in the life of a man, AlbertEinstein, and a city, Berlin, that were in many ways the definingyears of the twentieth century. Einstein in Berlin In the spring of 1913 two of the giants of modern sciencetraveled to Zurich. Their mission: to offer the most prestigiousposition in the very center of European scientific life to a manwho had just six years before been a mere patent clerk. AlbertEinstein accepted, arriving in Berlin in March 1914 to take up hisnew post. In December 1932 he left Berlin forever. “Take a goodlook,” he said to his wife as they walked away from their house.“You will never see it again.” In between, Einstein’s Berlin years capture in microcosm theodyssey of the twentieth century. It is a century that opens withextravagant hopes--and climaxes in unparalleled calamity. These aretumultuous times, seen through the life of one man who is at oncewitness to and architect of his day--and
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of ourtime. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of hislife and how he developed his concept of active nonviolentresistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independenceand countless other nonviolent struggles of the twentiethcentury. In a new foreword, noted peace expert and teacher Sissela Bokurges us to adopt Gandhi's "attitude of experimenting, of tesingwhat will and will not bear close scrutiny, what can and cannot beadapted to new circumstances,"in order to bring about change in ourown lives and communities. All royalties earned on this book are paid to the NavajivanTrust, founded by Gandhi, for use in carrying on his work.
No writer alive today exerts the magical appeal of GabrielGarcía Márquez. Now, in the long-awaited first volume of hisautobiography, he tells the story of his life from his birth in1927 to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. Theresult is as spectacular as his finest fiction. Here is García Márquez’s shimmering evocation of his childhoodhome of Aracataca, the basis of the fictional Macondo. Here are themembers of his ebulliently eccentric family. Here are the forcesthat turned him into a writer. Warm, revealing, abounding in imagesso vivid that we seem to be remembering them ourselves, Living toTell the Tale is a work of enchantment.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of theKennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story thatleaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (MiamiHerald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces thatshaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the third son of apowerful Irish Catholic political clan to his concern for issues ofsocial justice in the turbulent 1960s. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMESis "a picture of a deeply compassionate man hiding hisvulnerability, drawn to the underdogs and the unfortunates insociety by his life experiences and sufferings" (Los AngelesTimes).
Room for Doubt is Wendy Lesser’s account of threeseparate but interlocking occasions for doubt: her stay in Berlin,a city she had never expected to visit; her unwritten book on thephilosopher David Hume; and her long friendship with the writerLeonard Michaels, which constantly broke down and yet endured.Through this unusual journey, Lesser in the end shows us how, onceexamined, things are never quite what she thought they were.
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning actor with the legendary blueeyes, achieved superstar status by playing charismatic renegades,broken heroes, and winsome antiheroes in such revered films as TheHustler, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, TheVerdict, The Color of Money, and Nobody’s Fool. But Newman was alsoan oddity in Hollywood: the rare box-office titan who cared aboutthe craft of acting, the sexy leading man known for the stayingpower of his marriage, and the humble celebrity who madephilanthropy his calling card long before it was cool. The son of a successful entrepreneur, Newman grew up in aprosperous Cleveland suburb. Despite fears that he would fail tolive up to his father’s expectations, Newman bypassed the familysporting goods business to pursue an acting career. Afterstruggling as a theater and television actor, Newman saw his starrise in a tragic twist of fate, landing the role of boxer RockyGraziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me when James Dean was killedin a car a
