Best Selling Books by Geoffrey C. Ward

Based on the bestselling book Baseball: An Illustrated History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, and the PBS-TV series, this bestseller captures the glory and essence of America''s favorite pastime with full-color and duo-tone images, anecdotes, and historical facts. Shrink-wrapped.

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.

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.

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

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.

Adapted from the acclaimed PBS-TV series, Baseball, this calendar''s action-packed photos and facts are sure to make this a grand-slam winner.

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.

The opium trade is remembered as a British outrage: English merchants, protected by English bayonets, turning China into a nation of addicts. But Americans got rich from this traffic - among them, a young man named Warren Delano. He didn''t talk about it afterward, of course. And neither did his grandson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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