A candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. This book presents the life of a great national and international figure, President Bill Clinton revealed with all his talents and contradictions.

Charts the boyhood of Johnson through the depression years to his debut as congressman and his defeat in his first race for the Senate. The first of a four-volume biography by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize.

This biography of Harry Truman presents a picture of an extraordinary American President. Drawing archival material and interviews, McCullough chronicles Truman's boyhood, his entry into politics and his emergence as President. This book won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1993.

This portrait of Benjamin Frankin's public and private life also examines American and European political history of the time. The author examines the run up to the Revolutionary War, the relations between Britain, France and the colonies and the events that led to America's independence.

Sex, the Kennedys, Monroe and the Mafia; the controversial American bestseller -- 'Hersh has found more muck in this particular Augean stable than most people want to acknowledge' Gore Vidal

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Now Dallek has condensed his two- volume masterpiece into what is surely the finest one-volume biography of Johnson available.