My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson--His Lif...
Susan CheeverThis definitive biography of the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous is based on Susan Cheever's access to Bill Wilson's papers and other documents. She tells of his experiences as a young man in Vermont and of his decline into alcohol...
Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction
Susan CheeverWe've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we in love, or is there something darker at work? In Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Chee...
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcot...
Susan CheeverThe 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden...
Drinking in America: Our Secret Histo...
Susan CheeverIn DRINKING IN AMERICA, bestselling author Susan Cheever chronicles our national love affair with liquor, taking a long, thoughtful look at the way alcohol has changed our nation's history. This is the often-overlooked story of how al...
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Economist, San Francisco ChronicleCummings, in his radical experimentation with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, created a new kind of poetic expression. Because of his powerful work, he ...
Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biograp...
Susan CheeverLouisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding success that changed her life, a life which t...