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A selection of the remarkable letters of Emily Dickinson in anelegant Pocket Poet edition. The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make EmilyDickinson’s poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous,and often deeply moving letters she wrote to her family and friendsthroughout her life. The selection of letters presented hereprovides a fuller picture of the eccentric recluse of legend,showing how immersed in life she was: we see her tending hergarden; baking bread; marking the marriages, births, and deaths ofthose she loved; reaching out for intellectual companionship; andconfessing her personal joys and sorrows. These letters, invaluablefor the light they shed on their author, are, as well, a purepleasure to read.
Welcome to the daring, thrilling, and downright strangeadventures of William Willis, one of the world’s original extremesportsmen. Driven by an unfettered appetite for personal challengeand a yen for the path of most resistance, Willis mounted asingle-handed and wholly unlikely rescue in the jungles of FrenchGuiana and then twice crossed the broad Pacific on rafts of his owndesign, with only housecats and a parrot for companionship. Hisfirst voyage, atop a ten-ton balsa monstrosity, was undertaken in1954 when Willis was sixty. His second raft, having crossed eleventhousand miles from Peru, found the north shore of Australiashortly after Willis’s seventieth birthday. A marvel of vigor andfitness, William Willis was a connoisseur of ordeal, all butorchestrating short rations, ship-wreck conditions, and crushingsolitude on his trans-Pacific voyages. He’d been inspired by Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl’s bid to provethat a primitive raft could negotiate the open ocean. Willis’strips confirmed tha
An absorbing biography of the great leaderwho was the bridge between ancient and modern Europe — the firstmajor study in more than twenty-five years. Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: aningenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, acunning politician, and a devout believer who ensured the survivalof Christianity in the West. He also believed himself above therules of the church, siring bastards across Europe, and coldlyordering the execution of 4,500 prisoners. Derek Wilson shows howthis complicated, fascinating man married the military might of hisarmy to the spiritual force of the Church in Rome, thereby forgingWestern Christendom. This is a remarkable portrait of Charlemagneand of the intricate political, religious, and cultural world hedominated.
Saddle shoes. Camp shorts. Girdles. Bell-bottoms. Each plays asignificant role as we follow B., the wardrobe's owner, through herbuttoned-up Midwestern childhood to the freedom of miniskirts,sundresses, and New York City. We watch as B. copes with theuntimely death of her mother, makes a go of glamorous magazinework, and, after the inevitable false starts and fashion missteps,finally comes into her own.Part memoir, part fashion and culturalhistory of the last five decades, Autobiography of a Wardrobe is anexploration of the clothes each generation has embraced and thesmallest details in which we are able to seek comfort andmeaning.
In the most inspiring speech of his career, Ted Kennedy oncevowed: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the workgoes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dreamshall never die." Unlike his martyred brothers, John and Robert, whose lives werecut off before the promise of a better future could be realized,Ted lived long enough to make many promises come true. During acareer that spanned an astonishing half-century, he put his imprinton every major piece of progressive legislation–from health careand education to civil rights.
A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, AllSouls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie,the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration ofwhite poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemesand busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by sharply hewncharacters like his Ma, a miniskirted, accordion-playing singlemother who endures the deaths of four of her eleven children.Nearly suffocated by his grief and his community's code of silence,MacDonald tells his family story here with gritty but movinghonesty.
As a singer and songwriter, Gram Parsons stood at the nexus ofcountless musical crossroads, and he sold his soul to the devil atevery one. His intimates and collaborators included Keith Richards,William Burroughs, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Fonda, Roger McGuinn,and Clarence White. Parsons led the Byrds to create the seminalcountry rock masterpiece Sweetheart of the Rodeo, helped to guidethe Rolling Stones beyond the blues in their appreciation ofAmerican roots music, and found his musical soul mate in EmmylouHarris. Parsons’ solo albums, GP and Grievous Angel, are nowrecognized as visionary masterpieces of the transcendentaljambalaya of rock, soul, country, gospel, and blues Parsons named“Cosmic American Music.” Parsons had everything–looks, charisma,money, style, the best drugs, the most heartbreaking voice–andthrew it all away with both hands, dying of a drug and alcoholoverdose at age twenty-six. In this beautifully written, raucous, meticulously researchedbiography, David N. Meyer gi
From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships withwomen, both personal and political. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote thewords “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortablewith woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for thefounding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with his awkwardcourtship of Rebecca Burwell, who declined Jefferson's marriageproposal, and his unwelcome advances toward the wife of a boyhoodfriend. Subsequent chapters describe his decade-long marriage toMartha Wayles Skelton, his flirtation with Maria Cosway, and thestill controversial relationship with Sally Hemings. A rivetingstudy of a complex man, Mr. Jefferson's Women is sure tospark debate.
Ashley Judd is best known as the acclaimed actress in films suchas De Lovely and Double Jeopardy , but these days sheis more likely to be found wading through an African refugee campor Asian brothel than on a film set. For most of the past decadeJudd has been visiting human rights hotspots around the world tospread the word of hope, health, and gender equality on behalf ofone of the leading public health nonprofits, PSI/YouthAIDS. Herwork has put her in the company of Bono, Bill Clinton, and otherworld leaders in the battle against disease and poverty and inadvocating grassroots programs to improve the lives of women andchildren. Memories of her own painful childhood inspired Judd to reach out tothose in desperate need, especially abused and abandoned girls. Shewrites movingly of friends such as Kausar, an AIDS sufferer in theslums of Mumbai who becomes an activist and peer-educator, andheroes such as Dr. Rene, who lends his heart and soul to keep thesex workers of Madagascar from contracting and spreadi
Originally published in six volumes, Sandburgs Abraham Lincolnwas called the greatest historical biography of our generation.Sandburg distilled this work into one volume that became thedefinitive life of Lincoln. Index; photographs.
"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make thatlinebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okayto lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving ityour best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they calledSweetness, for the way he ran—remains the most prolific runningback in the history of the National Football League, the star ofthe Chicago Bears' only Super Bowl Championship, eleven times votedthe most popular sports figure in Chicago's history. Off the field,he was a devoted father whose charitable foundation benefited tensof thousands of children each year, and who—faced with terminalliver disease—refused to use his celebrity to gain a preferentialposition for organ donation. Walter Payton was not just a footballhero; he was America's hero. Never Die Easy is Walter Payton's autobiography, told from theheart. Growing up poor in Mississippi, he took up football to getgirls' attention, and went on to become a Black CollegeAll-
Bestselling author James Kaplan redefines Frank Sinatra in atriumphant new biography that includes many rarely seenphotographs. Frank Sinatra was the best-known entertainer of the twenti?ethcentury—infinitely charismatic, lionized and notori?ous in equalmeasure. But despite his mammoth fame, Sinatra the man has remainedan enigma. As Bob Spitz did with the Beatles, Tina Brown for Diana,and Peter Guralnick for Elvis, James Kaplan goes behind the legendand hype to bring alive a force that changed popular culture infundamental ways. Sinatra endowed the songs he sang with the explosive conflict ofhis own personality. He also made the very act of listening to popmusic a more personal experience than it had ever been. In Frank:The Voice, Kaplan reveals how he did it, bringing deeper insightthan ever before to the complex psyche and tur?bulent life behindthat incomparable vocal instrument. We relive the years 1915 to1954 in glistening detail, experiencing as if for the first timeSinatra’s journey
Book De*ion Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherlessand unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he wasso renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for asubject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect.During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College,Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave themnames—mass, gravity, velocity—things our science now takes forgranted. Inspired by Aristotle, spurred on by Galileo’s discoveriesand the philosophy of Descartes, Newton grasped the intangible anddared to take its measure, a leap of the mind unparalleled in hisgeneration. James Gleick, the author of Chaos and Genius, and one of the mostacclaimed science writers of his generation, brings the reader intoNewton’s reclusive life and provides startlingly clear explanationsof the concepts that changed forever our perception of bodies,rest, and motion—ideas so basic to the twenty-first century, it cant
