The Devil Problem: And Other True Stories

In this brilliant collection of profiles, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb...more

In this brilliant collection of profiles, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb spotlights subjects that range from Mario Cuomo to Dennis Rodman, Ralph Ellison to Ben Bradlee. What emerges is at once a gallery of fascinating characters and a human mosaic of ambition, recklessness, failure, and redemption.   less