This biography of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny reads like a novel, and fittingly so. For the life story of this brilliant, driven entrepreneur is the stuff of fiction, blending the quintessentially American rags-to-riches saga with... Read More

In 1950 Ralph Bunche became the first African-American to win the Nobel Peace Prize. As the director of the Trusteeship Division of the United Nations, Bunche shaped that organization’s role in peacekeeping efforts. At the March on... Read More

In the year 1700, garden architect and designer Andre Le N’tre visited his masterwork, Versailles, for the last time. While he and King Louis XIV were wheeled slowly down the grand avenues in special chairs, it may have seemed to them... Read More

Newspaper writers get side-by-side billing with the literary elect in this thoughtful, nicely bound anthology, which is a comprehensive literary gathering of writing inspired by the city. Perhaps only newspaper writers will find a... Read More

Anthologies began as collections of poems, later including prose, the word itself coming to us from the Greek anthologos—flower-gathering—a collection of not necessarily the best known of a genre, but of literary efforts that a... Read More

A practicing Internist, with a sub-specialty in rheumatology, Makover chronicles the rise of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), beginning with non-profits Kaiser-Permanente and Health Insurance Plan in the 1940s, through the HMO... Read More

Some World War II books are written in fashion of simply reporting troop movements while others use graphic descriptions of combat experiences. In an informative new approach, Marshall tells a dramatically revealing story about his role... Read More

Trotter, whose townhouse restaurant in Chicago has continued to seduce both critics and patrons since its opening in 1987, has released another addition to his highly acclaimed collection of cookbooks. Ranging from the James Beard award... Read More