friends and associates

January 1953 marked the year that Ted Sorensen and the freshman senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, began their professional relationship and personal friendship. The young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book, Profiles in Courage. Sorensen followed him to the White House in 1960 and was there for some of the most crucial days in JFK's presidency. After Kennedy's assassination, Sorensen stayed with President Johnson for a few months before leaving to write a biography of JFK but he returned to Washington in 1968 to help run Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign.

The first complete oral history of Bill Clinton and his presidency, it includes more than one hundred and fifty chronologically and topically arranged interviews with key figures.

Otto Dietrich was a thirty-four year old journalist when he met Adolf Hitler in 1931. In 1933 he was invited to become Hitler's press chief. He accepted with the simple, uncritical conviction that Hitler was dedicated to promoting peace and welfare for the German people. After the end of the war and five months after Hitler's death, imprisoned and disillusioned, Otto Dietrich sat down to write all that he had seen and heard during his twelve years of close association with Hitler. In 1948 he gave his memoir to someone he trusted requesting that it be published after his death. He died in 1952 at the age of fifty-five.

Examines Adolf Hitler's closest inner circle members individually and as a group and focuses on Hitler's three most important Nazi men: Goring, Goebbels, and Himmler, with a secondary inspection of Bormann, Speer, and Ribbentrop.

Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam. As a palace insider, she offers a glimpse of life under a dictator and provides an intimate portrait of the man she was taught to call "uncle".

Chronicles the personal and literary lives of Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, two significant writers that contributed to twentieth century American literature, tracing their critical reputation, social affairs, and drawing parallels between their respective careers.

A collection of remembrances of Diana, Princess of Wales, by over fifty people who knew her.

Jillian Becker chronicles the brief time she spent with Sylvia Plath during the winter of 1963, the last months of the poet's life.

Details the life of the seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, and focuses on his political actions and choices that shaped the White House and inspired the later presidents--including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and others.

The author shares her unique insight into Ronald Reagan, arguing that his character and courage made him the object of reverence and respect in America.