<i>At a glance</i>
Indira
The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
Katherine Frank
HarperCollins
A book that created quite a few waves when it first appeared, it remains a reader's delight. Frank brings new insights to bear on her telling of the tale of a woman who continues to exercise political imaginations not only in India but elsewhere in the world. It has been dogged by controversy, which makes its appeal that much better. Memoir of Hope
Renewal and Endeavour
Charles de Gaulle
Simon & Schuster
This work appeared in 1972, two years after the French leader died in retirement. All these decades since that time, the thoughts of a man who was, and remains, truly a giant among men cannot but be gone through cheerfully in order to understand the world as it once used to be. De Gaulle will always be the Big Man of history. Isak Dinesen
The Life of Karen Blixen
Judith Thurman
Penguin Books
Those who remember Meryl Streep in Out of Africa will find the original, in the form of Karen Blixen, a whole lot more compelling as an individual. Thurman brings back to life an intensely alive and breathing woman who loved spinning myths and inventing tales. There is sibylline beauty and magnetism in the woman known also as Isak Dinesen. The Presidents
Stephen Graubard
Penguin Books
The subtitle says it all: The Transformation of the American Presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush. Graubard presents a scholarly analysis of the men who have forged, or deshaped, policy in the White House. There are good presidents and bad presidents. And then there are the accidental presidents.
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