In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars—figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality.

Dyson profiles scientists—Newton Einstein, Teller, Feynman—whose independent thought allowed them to make great conceptual leaps.

An award-winning investigative journalist evaluates the controversial American and British stratagem for the Iraq war.

Dworkin examines the key decisions of the Court's 2006-2007 term and argues that these two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have created an "unbreakable phalanx bent on remaking constitutional law."