Champions Day

Champions DayIt is November 12, 1941, and the world is at war. In Shanghai, just weeks before Pearl Harbor, thousands celebrate the birthday of Chinas founding father, Sun Yat sen, in a new city center built to challenge European imperialism. Across town, crowds of Shanghai residents from all walks of life attend the funeral of Chinas wealthiest woman, the Chinese French widow of a Baghdadi Jewish businessman whose death was symbolic of the passing of a generation

The enduring symbol of freedom

This is the story of how a farm boy became America’s foremost sculptor

ranging from some of the earliest images ever taken to photographs by artists working today

Written by Marion Wilson

Lincoln emerged from among his peers as the true inheritor of the Founders' mantle

and of incompleteness

In this intimate portrait of a leader torn between politics and principle

defectors and executioners—that has never appeared in the history books

After their young life is shaken by tragedy

nor a pilfered necklace

Here for the first time is the full-color

his best-selling and immensely influential record of the Kennedy administration