1918-

The author examines the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs while focusing on the prejudice within American culture, and discusses the women's rights movement and Title IX as well as the evolution of women's sports since the 1970s.

A memoir in which "Washington Post" correspondent Lynne Duke discusses her experiences as bureau chief in Johannesburg, South Africa, and provides an account of some of the major stories to come out of Africa in the 1990s.

Chronicles the experiences of a band of Jewish guerrillas who joined the Russian army in its attack on Vilna, the capital of Lithuania, in 1944.

Chronicles the true experiences of John Henry Poncio who survived the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp first in the Philippines, then later at Hirohata in Japan.

Chronicles the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and examines questions regarding the case's influence on civil rights and desegregation in the years since it was fought.

An illuminating study of Hunts character, career with the CIA, and his role in the Watergate affair.

Text and photographs present a biography of the composer, painter, television personality, Harvard lecturer, cultural icon, and one of the most influential musical conductors.

Tells the life story of South African political leader Nelson Mandela, discussing the villages of his childhood, the Xhosa people, his education, his fight to end apartheid, his many years in prison, and his victory as president in South Africa's first democratic elections.