Presents color reproductions of more than ninety works by New York artist Chuck Close, and includes essays on Close and his techniques, an interview with the artist, a chronology, a bibliography, and an exhibition history.
The author describes growing up north of Cape Town in South Africa in the mid-twentieth century, discussing his first encounters with literature and his impressions of apartheid.
Tells the life story of Democratic California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to be chosen as minority whip and the first to lead a major party in Congress.
The author provides an account of life in Sierra Leona at the end of the civil war that raged in the country for eleven years, told from his viewpoint as an outsider who had spent some time in the country years earlier, as well as the perspective of Sewa Bockarie Marah, a leader in the People's Party.
A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends.
