1940-

Newsman Koppel offers his observations on significant matters of 1999--the Clinton impeachment, the war in Kosovo, the global economy, even Viagra.

A memoir in which the author, a former editor for the "New York Times Book Review," tells about his life growing up as an African-American in an Ohio steel town, and later at an exclusive, upstate New York university during the 1950s and 60s.

Autobiography of a Russian ballerina who defected to the West in 1970.