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In 1969, a week before her fifteenth birthday, rebellious and incorrigible Pinky runs away from her northern Virginia home. Meeting up with a band of free spirits, she quickly finds herself in California and a heap of trouble. Not that Pinky hasn't been in trouble before-she's been numbing her pain with pot, alcohol, and self-mutilation for some time.

Born while her parents were still teenagers themselves, Pinky moved from one home to another over the course of her short life, leaving her emotionally distant and guarded. Ask her, and she'll tell you she lost all hope long ago,...

Catherine Cannon has spent her life keeping secrets and trying to outrun her past. Speaking about her past and about her family is taboo and she has only shared details of her life with her closest childhood friend.

A long time Department of Defense employee, Catherine has finally found the comfort and security she searched for her entire life. But at the age of 32, she puts it all on the line with the knowledge she may lose everything that truly counts - mind, body, soul and the love of a good man.

Catherine seeks the answer to one question - does she...

A New York Times Notable Book of 1996

It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States," as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith "does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed."

Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man....

In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.

Prompted by interesting tidbits in the newspaper, Rose and Joe Kennedy would pose questions to their nine children at the dinner table. "Where could Amelia Earhart have gone?" "How would you address this horrible drought?" "What would you do about the troop movements in Europe?" It was a nightly custom...

Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. As president, he brought stability to the country after years of war and upheaval. Yet today Grant is remembered as a brilliant general but a failed president.

In this comprehensive biography, Jean Edward Smith reconciles these conflicting assessments of Grant's life. He argues...