A Memoir

John Julius Norwich’s life has reflected an appetite for living, enlivened by a sense of personal theater. Trying to Please is an engaging and amusing memoir that describes a glamorous but vanishing world. From the monasteries on Mt. Athos to a camel trek across the Sahara, the book shows how Norwich’s passions for history, travel, and music have combined with simpler pleasures like friendship and a close family. A remarkable life and a thoroughly enjoyable read.

Voice of a New Age Revolution

The name of Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most widely recognized in the world. His Autobiography has been translated into all major languages. The film "Gandhi" remains popular. Yet many mysteries surround this man, especially about his inner life and personal relationships. This book covers these topics.

Memoirs

A fixture in Washington society, Joseph Alsop knew intimately everyone who mattered in American politics, including all the presidents of his day, but was especially close to John and Jacqueline Kennedy. He also visited Churchill in London, de Gaulle in Paris, Adenauer in Bonn, and writes entertainingly about these and other larger-than-life figures. No journalist since Henry Adams so brilliantly described the habits of the great and near-great of his day, in government and elsewhere.

Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet

Bruce Cook of the Washington Post Book World has written that: “Bohemia has become an acceptable, even desirable lifestyle all around America, and indeed the world over.” But to understand how this happened, how an “alternative” lifestyle became so mainstream, and also to visit what many consider to be Bohemia’s golden age, there is no better source than Gold.