Philip Short Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: Fran�ois Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag...

Roy Jenkins A masterly work by the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and GladstoneA protean figure and a man of massive achievement, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only...

Avi Shilon The first full-scale biography of one of the most important—and enigmatic—leaders in Israeli historyThis riveting biography is the first to provide a satisfactory answer to the question, Who...

Peter Ackroyd "MARVELOUS . . . A first-rate biography of an extraordinary man."           -- The Wall Street Journal"SUPERB . . . Ackroyd writes with clarity and His book is consistently...

Roy Jenkins Originally published in 1995, this is a biography of William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), which charts the political career and personal life of the only person who saw four...

Evan Thomas He was "Good Bobby," who, as his brother Ted eulogized him, "saw wrong and tried to right it . . . saw suffering and tried to heal it."...

Mo Hayder A page-turning triumph from the internationally bestselling thriller author Mo Hayder—Gone is a riveting tale that pits detective Jack Caffery and police diver Flea Marley against a carjacker who...

Mo Hayder When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the...

Mordechai Bar-On From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a vivid portrait of one of the most powerful leaders in Israel’s first decades of statehoodInstantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch,...

Ian Kershaw Ian Kershaw’s biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time....

William Gibson The rise of Golda Meir from impoverished Russian schoolgirl to Prime Minister of Israel is one of the most amazing stories of the 20th century. Now her life...

DR Thorpe  The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977 January 1, 2004 by Pimlico