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Gandhi
The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
New in Hardcover
The concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed Gandhi Before India
“Guha mines newly discovered archival material to produce a portrait of the Indian leader that is both panoramic in scope and surprisingly intimate.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Anthony Powell
Dancing to the Music of Time
New in Hardcover
“A landmark biography.” —James Marriott, The Times (London)
“Powell emerges from this exemplary and deliciously readable account not only as a novelist of considerable significance . . . but also as a human being of great wit, impressive modesty and firm integrity.” —Claire Messud, The Guardian
Wayne and Ford
The Films, the Friendship, and the Forging of an American Hero
Now in Paperback
“A deft exploration of masculinity in crisis, the consequences of nostalgia, the decline of the Western.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Ernest Hemingway
A Biography
Now in Paperback
“The most fully faceted portrait of Hemingway now available.” —The Washington Post
“Dearborn skillfully covers an enormous range of rich material.” —The New York Times Book Review
Lenin
The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Now in Paperback
A New York Times Notable Book
“Sebestyen has managed to produce a first-rate thriller by detailing the cynicism and murderous ambition of the founder of the Soviet Union.” —The New York Times
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Sticky Fingers
The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
Now in Paperback
A New York Times Top 10 Book of the Year—selected by Dwight Garner and Janet Maslin
“A colossal achievement. . . . Fast paced, compulsively readable, and consistently insightful.” —New York Magazine