Best Selling Books by Geoffrey C Ward

The limitations polio impose on FDR affected every waking hour of his life from the onset of the disease in 1921 until his death, twenty-four years later.

A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt''s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President''s castle as it was his formidable mother''s.

From the authors of "Jazz, Baseball, " and "The Civil War": the first fully illustrated biography of one of the central figures of literature--the American titan who gave readers Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and "Life on the Mississippi." A companion volume to the four-hour PBS television series. 150 illustrations, 40 in color.

During the fifteen roistering years covered by two collections of letters, Clemens tried printing, piloting, mining, back-room politics, newspaper reporting, short-story writing and lecturing, and he traveled all over the west and all the way to the Sandwich Islands and back - and was never satisfied, with himself or with the work that had begun to make him famous.

Most Presidents seem embarrassed by the ambition that fueled their drive to power. To hear them tell it, the Presidency just happened to them, like adolescence.

Lincoln still converses with us through his writing; his carefully crafted words still most memorably define the struggle through which he led us.

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt''s honeymoon was a lavish grand tour through a sunny, hospitable Europe. It was also filled with signs of the mutual bafflement that would one day embitter their marriage.

On the evidence of this new study, it may be hard to like Clara Barton, but it is impossible not to admire her.