The future president describes his campaign for the state senate in 1962.

A British anthropologist lives among the African Mbuti Pygmies and observes their customs and culture.

A quirky patriarch tries to keep his family together.

Secrets, suffering, and—success–doing Polaroid commercials with James Garner.

Adventures in the theatre.

The tempestuous life of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln.

Between 1957 and 1962, the peripatetic author traveled to California, New York, and Cairo to raise her son. The fourth...

A comprehensive biography of the woman who founded the American Red Cross.

A professor at Johns Hopkins reveals her struggle with bipolar illness.

An English game warden and his wife raise Elsa the lion in captivity.

America’s first African American congresswoman campaigns for the presidency.

A premature girl born with cerebral palsy in 1940, rebuffed by the medical establishment, is rehabilitated by her parents.