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"The Road to Rescue," by Mietek Pemper and "Searching for Schindler," by Thomas Keneally, pay tribute to Oskar Schindler and the "multifarious acts of resistance" that made his rescues possible.

Thirty years of correspondence between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, conducted across continents and oceans as their poetry drove them together and their lives kept them apart.

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich was published this year and in just 182 pages, Bacevich clearly and succinctly tells how we arrived at the situation we are in today. He is a professor of history and a former colonel in the military. ...

The founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group shares his views on executive compensation, Wall Street and the financial system as a whole. His thoughts on the importance of ethical, moral and spiritual values are in his new book, Enough: The True Measure of Money, Business and Life.

AP - A judge has ordered Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter to resume documenting her mother's personal papers, which are at the center of a family feud among the civil rights icon's surviving children.

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and oral historian Studs Terkel that he "is more than a writer; he is a national resource." But Terkel saw himself as a teller of stories - the stories of others.

Mr. Terkel was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as an important historical genre.