He was The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One ofthe greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatestbaseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend –and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? Whatmotivated him to interrupt his Hall of Fame career twice to servehis country as a fighter pilot; to embrace his fans while tanglingwith the media; to retreat from the limelight whenever possibleinto his solitary love of fishing; and to become the most famousman ever to have his body cryogenically frozen after his death? NewYork Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, who wrote thecelebrated Sports Illustrated obituary of Ted Williams, nowdelivers an intimate, riveting account of this extraordinarylife. Still a gangly teenager when he stepped into a Boston Red Soxuniform in 1939, Williams’s boisterous personality and penchant fortowering home runs earned him adoring admirers--the fans--andvenomous critics--the sportswriters. In 1941, the enti

Curtis spares few intimate details about his years as aHollywood lothario, including his teenage affair with a redheaded,ponytailed Marilyn Monroe.–USA Today He was the Golden Boy of the Golden Age. Dashing and debonair,Tony Curtis arrived on the scene in a blaze of bright lights andcelluloid. His good looks, smooth charm, and natural talent earnedhim fame, women, and adulation–Elvis copied his look, and theBeatles put him on their Sgt. Pepper album cover. But the Hollywoodlife of his dreams brought both invincible highs and debilitatinglows. Now, in his captivating, no-holds-barred autobiography, TonyCurtis shares the agony and ecstasy of a private life in the publiceye. Curtis revisits his immense body of work–including the classicsHoudini, Spartacus, and Some Like It Hot–and regales readers withstories of his associations with Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier,and director Billy Wilder, as well as paramours Natalie Wood andMarilyn Monroe, among others. Written with humor and grace,

He was the Sultan of Swat. The Caliph of Clout. The Wizard ofWhack. The Bambino. And simply, to his teammates, the Big Bam. Fromthe award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller TedWilliams comes the thoroughly original, definitively ambitious, andexhilaratingly colorful biography of the largest legend ever toloom in baseball—and in the history of organized sports. “[Montville is] one of America’s best sportswriters.” —ChicagoTribune Babe Ruth was more than baseball’s original superstar. Foreighty-five years, he has remained the sport’s reigning titan. Hehas been named Athlete of the Century . . . more than once. But whowas this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known abouthis childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? In The BigBam, Leigh Montville, whose recent New York Times bestsellingbiography of Ted Williams garnered glowing reviews and offered anexceptionally intimate look at Williams’s life, brings histrademark touch to this groundbreakin

“This book is a life-changer. Thomas Cahill hasshown—through the extraordinary life of one man—that God workseverywhere and can bring the most beautiful soul to maturity ineven the most horrifying circumstances. If you read his story youwill never forget Dominique Green, nor will you ever feel the sameway about our courts, our prisons, and our criminal justicesystem.” —Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead ManWalking “Though this is a book that ends in death, it does not end indespair. Read it and discover how even the obscenity of capitalpunishment can be transformed into an occasion of light and peace.”—Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Afric "A deeply moving narrative about a man transformed as he faced anunjust execution." —James H. Cone, author of Black Theologyand Black Power “I expect A Saint on Death Row to become a classic in the growingstruggle to cleanse this nation finally of the sin of the deathpenalty.” —Jonathan Kozo

Edith Kermit Carow grew up in New York City in the same circlesas did Theodore Roosevelt. But only after TR's first wife died atage twenty-two did the childhood friends forge one of the mostsuccessful romantic and political partnerships in American history.Sylvia Jukes Morris's access to previously unpublished letters anddiaries brings to full life her portrait of the Roosevelts andtheir times. During her years as First Lady (1901-09), Edith KermitRoosevelt dazzled social and political Washington as hostess,confidante, and mother of six, leading her husband to remark, "Mrs.Roosevelt comes a good deal nearer my ideal than I do myself."

V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting onecivilization to another." In A Writer's People , he takes usinto this process of creative and intellectual assimilation, whichhas shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discussesthe writers to whom he was exposed early on—Derek Walcott, GustaveFlaubert, and his father, among them—and his first encounters withliterary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings ofGandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal theauthors themselves and their nation. And he brings the samescrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; theempty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions tothe more complicated India he would encounter for the first time atage thirty.

While many people dream of abandoning civilization and headinginto the wilderness, few manage to actually do it. One exceptionwas twenty-four-year-old Elliott Merrick, who in 1929 left hisadvertising job in New Jersey and moved to Labrador, one ofCanada’s most remote regions. First published by Scribner’s in1933, True North tells the captivating story of one of the highpoints of Merrick’s years there: a hunting trip he and his wife,Kay, made with trapper John Michelin in 1930. Covering 300 milesover a harsh winter, they experienced an unexplored realm of natureat its most intense and faced numerous challenges. Merrickaccidentally shot himself in the thigh and almost cut off his toe.Freezing cold and hunger were constant. Nonetheless, the groupfound beauty and even magic in the stark landscape. The couple andthe trappers bonded with each other and their environment throughsuch surprisingly daunting tasks as fabricating sunglasses to avoidsnow blindness and learning to wash underwear without it fre

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