relations with women

Chronicles the life of Dora Diamant, the woman who stood side-by-side with literary giant Franz Kafka at the end of his life.

Translates the journal of Fernande Olivier, artist's model and love of Pablo Picasso, along with many of her letters and some of her memoirs, which were published in French in the 1930s. She discusses her childhood, her forced marriage at eighteen to an abusive man, her seven years with Picasso, and her life afterward.

The author, a reporter for the "Washington Post," and "Newsweek," discusses his investigation of the scandals involving President Clinton, and tells how he unwittingly became a primary character in the impeachment drama.

In the summer of 1962, nineteen-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. After just three days on the job, the privileged but sheltered young woman was presented to the President himself. Almost immediately, the two began an affair that would continue for the next eighteen months. Emotionally unprepared to counter the President?s charisma and power, Mimi was also ill-equipped to handle the feelings of isolation that would follow as she fell into the double life of a college student who was also the secret lover of the most powerful man in the world. After the President?s assassination in Dallas, she grieved alone, locked her secret away, and tried to start a new life, only to be blindsided by her past.

An examination of the Clinton sex scandals, discussing the primary roles of Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and Kenneth Starr in events that led to attempts to remove Clinton from office; and exploring the motivations of other key players in the national disgrace.

The author provides a humorous account of his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail from just north of Atlanta, Georgia, to Maine, a six-month journey that led to new romance and the satisfaction of meeting the challenges of walking over two thousand miles.

A biography of eighteenth-century Romantic poet William Wordsworth, discussing his sexual experience, his complex relationship with his sister Dorothy, his affair with Annette Vallon, and his suspected activities as a spy for the British Secret Service.