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Grace and Power By Sally Bedell Smith
Smith has made a career out of turning the lives of bold-faced names into meticulously researched biographies. This time, she targets the most glamorous couple to inhabit 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In "Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House," Smith chronicles Jack and Jackie's highs and lows: heroic diplomacy, prodigious infidelity and a sparkling intellectual and social life unsurpassed by their successors. As in her previous biographies of William Paley, Pamela Harriman and Princess Diana, Smith leaves no detail unturned. It may overwhelm a casual reader, but it will satisfy any Kennedy junkie.
The Polymath By Bensalem Himmich
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In this historical novel, we meet perhaps the most famous of all Arab intellectuals, the 14th-century historian and judge Ibn Khaldun. It is near the end of his life, and Khaldun has settled in Cairo after decades of advising North African and Spanish Muslim rulers. Amid rumors and rebellions in among the Mamluk rulers of Egypt, Ibn Khaldun is hired, fired, imprisoned and dispatched to negotiate with the Mamluk's saber-rattling adversary, the Mongol conqueror Tamerlane. Readers have to plow through a long introduction to Ibn Khaldun's ideas before reaching the best part of this work, translated from Arabic: the personal history of a still-influential polymath.
Tales From Shakespeare By Tina Packer
This beautifully illustrated book adapts 10 of the Bard's most popular comedies and tragedies into concise, clearly told tales. Packer, a British-born actor-director famed for her unwavering fealty to Shakespeare's original language, imports his wit and wisdom--along with many original lines. She succeeds in capturing the essence of works like "Hamlet" and "The Tempest" in all their frank, witty, sad melodrama--at a fraction of the words. A perfect introduction for newcomers.
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