Extraordinary and Compelling Lives

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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