Sally Bedell Smith

Drawing on interviews with Kennedy intimates, as well as newly available personal documents, a study of America's most storied presidency reveals the personalities and relationships that molded the politics, culture, and style of an era.

Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess. Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana.After more than a decade interviewing those closest to the Princess and her select circle, Sarah Bradford exposes the real Diana: the blighted childhood, the old-fashioned courtship which saw her capture the Prince of Wales, the damage caused by the spectre of Camilla Parker Bowles, through to the collapse of the royal marriage and Diana's final and complicated year as single woman.Diana paints an honest portrait of a woman riddled with contradictions and whose vulnerability and unique empathy with the suffering made her one of the most extraordinary figures of the modern age.

National Theatre, The American National Theatre and Academy presents Eva Le Gallienne, Faye Emerson and The National Repertory Theatre, Michael Dewell and Frances Ann Hersey, producers in Maxwell Anderson's "Elizabeth the Queen," and Friedrich Schiller's "Mary Stuart," adaptation by Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich also starring Scott Forbes with Paul Ballantyne, Dalton Dearborn, Claude Horton, Pirie Macdonald, Geddeth Smith, Dee Victor, Sydney Walker, Jonathan Farwell, Terence Scannell, Frederick Worlock, directed by Jack Sydow, settings by Jac Venza, lighting by Tharon Musser, costumes by Alvin Colt.

A biography of television's greatest tycoon, tracing his public and private life and business triumphs.