Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

Napoleon: a Life is an epic biography by a popular writer who has done the “on the ground work” needed to make the latest of the thousands of biographies of Napoleon something new.

“[an] entertaining, enlightening success . . ."

In his book The Cost of Courage author Charles Kaiser brings the horror of existing in occupied France during World War II front and center.

“a family history like no other.”

“If you like modern poetry, or simply a good biography, Young Eliot is the book for you.”

“Worse than that, is the abject contempt the band shows for the very people who have kept them on the road lo these many years . . .”

Baseball historians generally agree on the mainstays of the baseball morality tale. They know that Abner Doubleday had nothing to do with the invention of the game.

“What I feel, I cannot unfeel. What I know I cannot unknow. I can no longer escape my culpability, the mess that I have made. My crime is all I see. My crime is all there is.”

“The high point of The Life of Saul Bellow is the use of illustrations.”

Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, who quickly becomes “Madam Ambassador,” starts her memoir with a bang. Shortly after starting her post as the first Greek-American to serve as a U.S.

Barney Frank came to Washington with Ronald Reagan in 1980. There ends any similarity between them.