Politics

Karl Marx: A Life

What do a rogue elephant, a wild boar, and a shaven porcupine have in common? They all reflect facets of…

3 weeks ago

Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice

Bruce Levine, a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois and an award-winning author of books on the…

2 months ago

Cleopatra: A Life

We are told not to judge a book by its cover. In this case, however, Stacy Schiff chose an appropriate…

2 months ago

Churchill: The Power of Words

If words are weapons, then Winston Churchill possessed a personal arsenal. Martin Gilbert opens this anthology of Churchill’s work by…

3 months ago

George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father

With so many biographies of George Washington available, it is not so much a matter of having something new to say…

8 months ago

Churchill’s Rock: Sonia Purnell on The Life and Times of Clementine Churchill

  Best known as the wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill served as one of her…

9 months ago

Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy

In the popular imagination, the name “Genghis Khan” continues to conjure images of savage Mongol hordes laying waste to everything…

9 months ago

Churchill: The Unexpected Hero

Paul Addison’s Churchill: The Unexpected Hero builds on his earlier Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry in presenting a more…

9 months ago

Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz

On the final page of her book, author Lauren Arrington, a senior lecturer at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of…

10 months ago

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington

Alexis Coe, trained as a historian, and employed at various times by the Brooklyn Historical Society and as a research…

10 months ago