Chronicles the life of Japanese emperor Hirohito, focusing on his sixty-three-year reign and discussing how his political career influenced contemporary Japanese history.
An anthology of autobiographical essays in which Afro-Puerto Rican activist Jesus Colon recalls his life in the Hispanic and politically radical communities of New York City.
Chronicles the life of artist Beauford Delaney from his religious childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, to his death in an insane asylum in Paris, and discusses what inspired him while he was painting.
A biography of a scientists who has received two Nobel prizes: one for his work on the nature of the chemical bond that holds atoms together, the other for helping to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. His most recent work is concerned with vitamin C.
