Omaha Blues

By Joseph Lelyveld

In the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where his father, Arthur, was a celebrated rabbi, Joseph Lelyveld finds a musty trunk of souvenirs. Applying his award-winning investigative skills, as bo...

Great Soul

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A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments—his success in seizing India’s imagination and shaping its independence struggle as...

His Final Battle

By Joseph Lelyveld

A New York Times Notable Book • A prizewinning author and journalist untangles the narrative threads of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and pe...

Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black And White

By Joseph Lelyveld

Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop

By Joseph Lelyveld

His Final Battle

By Joseph Lelyveld

"Untangles the narrative threads of Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced in tandem...

Move your shadow

By Joseph Lelyveld

His Final Battle

By Joseph Lelyveld

Move your shadow

By Joseph Lelyveld

Provides a look at the South African way of life and racial policy.

His final battle

By Joseph Lelyveld

"By far the most enigmatic leading figure" of World War II. That's how the British military historian John Keegan described Franklin D. Roosevelt, who frequently left his contemporaries guessing, n...