"Every weekday for decades, a kind man named Mister Rogers stepped through a door in his TV house, spoke directly into the camera while he changed from street clothes into a cardigan and sneakers, and sang, "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood." Offering unconditional love, this soft-spoken icon was a household name for tens of millions of children, as well as their parents who grew up with this friendly neighbor themselves. Fred Rogers (1928-2003)...

Mary Todd Lincoln-one of the most remarkable and controversial First Ladies in American history-comes to life in this romantic biography.

You could say that fate placed Elvis Presley, the most famous GI in the army, in Germany, and that fate, too, played a role in Priscilla Beaulieu's family's transfer to that same country in that same year. But that's where fate leaves off and sheer resolve takes over, as a beautiful fourteen-year-old girl determines to meet the twenty-six-year-old King of Rock and Roll - and the rest is truly history. Child Bride is the never-before-told story of...

Presents the life of novelist Willa Cather from birth in Virginia and childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska, through her early career as a drama critic and her editor's career in Pittsburgh and New York.

Robert Coles confronts candidly the central puzzles of Dorothy Day's life: the sophisticated Greenwich Village novelist and reporter who converted to Catholicism; the unwed mother; her struggles with sexuality; and her social and religious conservatism coupled with radical politics. The Radcliffe Biography Series.

These volumes complete the biography of Lincoln which the author began in "The prairie years." It covers the years from 1861 until Lincoln's death. Contains many illustrations including cuts of cartoons, letters and documents.

Bach, the "holy cantor" church musician, has been often described in books. But the real Bach, the "eminently astute manager of his life, " is frequently buried in endless, uninteresting detail. In contrast, Dr. Otto Bettmann's new book, Johann Sebastian Bach: As His World Knew Him, shows Bach with all his human qualities: the capable management of his vast family - two wives and twenty children - Bach's humor, his considerable business acumen, the...

No one can deny that James Cagney is one of a handful of living actors who can truly be described as "great." For almost forty years, he has dazzled audiences with one virtuoso performance after another, whether as the quintessential tough guy in Public Enemy, a psychopath in White Heat, the captain in Mr. Roberts, or (his personal favorite) the great song-and-dance man George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Few performers have ever so dominated...