Books Edited by Jackie Kennedy

An entertaining and informative illustrated guide  that makes world history accessible, appealing,  and funny.

Bill Moyers’s  Healing And The Mind has changed the way Americans think about  sickness and health, shaping the debate over alternative medical  treatments and the role of the mind in illness and  recovery.

In her final novel, Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.  Set on bucolic Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast’s black bourgeoisie.

In 1829, Sam Houston was the thirty-six-year-old governor of Tennessee whose marriage to twenty-year-old Eliza Allen seemed to form the perfect social foundation on which Houston would build his glittering career. But just eleven weeks after the wedding, Eliza suddenly and inexplicably left her new husband, creating a scandal that caused the governor to resign his office in disgrace and embark on an exile that would ultimately deliver him to Texas. Richly detailed and splendidly imagined, The Raven’s Bride turns a baffling historical conundrum into a complex and deeply affecting love story.

This extraordinary book reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. From stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome to traditions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity, a broad array of themes are considered that together identify the universality of human experience across time and culture. An impeccable match of interviewer and subject, a timeless distillation of Campbell’s work, The Power of Myth continues to exert a profound influence on our culture.