Wouldn’t you love to peer into the minds of some of history’s greatest personalities? How great it would be to understand both the motivations and the foibles of figures like Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe and Abraham Lincoln.

Celebrated journalist, Claudia Kalb, has written the definitive book that exposes the strengths and strangeness of people who have left their indelible mark upon the culture. If you’re interested in the quirks of human nature, you want to miss this compelling conversation.