Five Presidents
by Clint Hill | 
Decision Points
by George W. Bush | 
Detroit
by Charlie LeDuff | 
Churchill
by Andrew Roberts | 
My Life
by Bill Clinton | 
Walking with the Wind
by John Lewis | 
The Matriarch
by Susan Page | 
Being Nixon
by Evan Thomas | 
The Woman Behind the New Deal
by Kirstin Downey | 
Memoirs of a Revolutionary
by Victor Serge | 
True Compass
by Edward M. Kennedy |
Argo
by Antonio J. Mendez | 
John Brown, Abolitionist
by David S. Reynolds | 
See No Evil
by Robert Baer |
Faith of My Fathers
by John McCain | 
Miles Gone By
by William F. Buckley, Jr. |
Whittaker Chambers
by Sam Tanenhaus | 
Radical Son
by David Horowitz |
We Want Freedom
by Mumia Abu-Jamal | 
Franklin and Eleanor
by Hazel Rowley |
Unique in his own age and a phenomenon in any, Charles-Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand, was a statesman of outstanding ability and extraordinary contradictions. He was a world-class rogue who held high office in five successive regimes. A well-known opportunist and a notorious bribe taker, Talleyrand's gifts to France arguably outvalued the vast personal fortune he amassed in her service. Once a supporter of the Revolution, after the fall of the monarchy, he fled to England and then to the United States. Talleyrand returned to France two years later and served under Napoleon, and represented France at the Congress of Vienna. Duff Cooper's classic biography contains all the vigor, elegance, and intellect of its remarkable subject.