Tom Brokaw’s recent book, “The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate,” aims to position himself as the period’s pre-eminent wise man.
“The American president was intended, at least in part, to serve as the nation’s chief of state, as its symbolic head, not a partisan leader. An office envisioned by George Washington and others as a source of national pride and unity has devolved into a force for division and discord.”
The three Soong sisters characterized in the title of Jung Chang's latest book about 20th-century China were Ei-ling (born 1889), Ching-ling (born 1893) and May-ling (born 1898).
As Mr. Klehr writes, Karr, born David Katz in Brooklyn in 1918, "was the Zelig of twentieth-century American life." Like Woody Allen's Zelig, "he popped up at key moments and important places," often next to significant political figures.
Many individuals who become perpetrators of terrorist violence -- whether Islamist or white supremacist or psychologically disorder-driven mass shooters -- start with domestic violence, particularly against women.
In Ian Rankin's latest John Rebus crime novel, "In a House of Lies," we find the retired Scottish detective inspector suffering from COPD and living alone with his dog, Brillo.
In the preface to his masterful account of human history as shaped by the oceans, Cambridge Professor David Abulafia reminds us that the seas around us "account for something like 70% of the world's surface, and most of this watery space consists of the vast open areas we call oceans.
While "Henry, Himself" is not a great novel, its quiet, witty charm is quite wonderful, each vignette a pleasure to read.
Let's say you are totally evil, a person without any saving human graces, a cross between the fictional Hannibal Lecter and the all-too-real Adolf Hitler. In other words, you're a Thomas Harris bad guy, and in this book, the author's first novel in 13 years, your name is Hans-Peter Schnieder.
James B. Stewart's mission here, however, is much different, an apparent attempt to breathe new life into the Mueller report by sorting through the tons of material that came out of it, simplifying it, and supplying it with a primary narrative plot.
"Between February and May 1955, a group secretly funded by the Central Intelligence Agency launched a secret weapon into Communist territory.
