James Reston, Jr., Author Doubleday $27.95 (363p) ISBN 978-0-385-50848-3
Veteran journalist and author Reston brings to life three key elements of Spanish history that intertwined in 1492. Columbus takes a back seat to the Inquisition and the defeat of Islamic Granada, but plays a key role in demonstrating their...
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James Reston, Jr., Author Harmony $23 (253p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8243-8
Renowned author Reston (Warriors of God
) details the heart-wrenching saga of his daughter Hillary's life after a mysterious series of fevers at 18 months turns the smart, active child into a mentally handicapped and seriously physically ill...
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James Reston, Jr., Author Harmony $22 (207p) ISBN 978-0307394200
In 1977, three years after his resignation, Richard Nixon returned to the public eye in a series of interviews with British television journalist David Frost, for which Nixon received $1 million. Figuring his political and lawyerly skills were more...
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James Reston, Jr., Author Penguin Press $29.95 (407p) ISBN 978-1-59420-225-4
In this vibrant piece of intellectual history, Reston completes the saga of the relationship between East and West he began with Warriors of God
. Combining a historian's attention to detail and a novelist's narrative flair, Reston focuses
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James Reston, Jr., Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-48326-1
Reston theorizes that the year A.D. 999--the focus of this highly colorful narrative--was a turning point in history, marking the Christian West's joining of forces against the triple heathen threat of Vikings, Hungarian Magyar tribes and the Moors...
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James Reston, Jr., Author Edward Burlingame Books $20 (326p) ISBN 978-0-06-016379-2
The backgrounds of the two adversaries could scarcely be more unlike: the late Giamatti, son of a university professor, educated on both sides of the Atlantic, a Renaissance scholar, onetime Yale professor and president who abandoned academe to...
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James Reston, Jr., Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (691p) ISBN 978-0-06-016196-5
Former navy secretary, governor of Texas and treasury secretary John Connally is roughly handled in this well-researched and absorbing biography. Reston ( Our Father Who Art in Hell ) probes Connally's campaign management of Lyndon Johnson's 1948...
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James Reston, Jr., Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-016378-5
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) may seem an unlikely subject for Reston, who has previously chronicled Jim Jones, John Connally and the clash of baseball's Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti. But Galileo, like Reston's present-day subjects, was at once a man...
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James Reston, Jr., Author Doubleday Books $27.5 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-49561-5
Chronicling the often inglorious exploits during the third crusade (1187-1192) of King Richard I of England and Saladin, the sultan of Egypt, Syria, Arabia and Mesopotamia, Reston's panoramic narrative begins with the first crusade, launched by Pope
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James Reston, Jr., Author, Kate Medina, Editor Random House (NY) $25 (525p) ISBN 978-0-394-58558-1
Although a self-described unreconstructed Scotch Calvinist, the 82-year-old Reston clearly has mellowed, by evidence of this captivating memoir. Perceptive, frank, uncommonly interesting, avuncular, he relates with seemingly total recall ``everything
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