Arguably, no other historian than Hofstadter chronicled more dynamically American liberalism, which reached its highpoint during the 1930s New Deal and ultimately unraveled in the mid 1960s, claims the author in this illuminating... Read More

London’s famed Speakers’ Corner, soapbox plinth to generations of agitators and cranks, is a stone’s throw from Bloomsbury, an address so indelibly part of Virginia Woolf iconography that it could qualify for National Trust status.... Read More

A coffee table-sized shrine dedicated to the memory and glamour of actress Greta Garbo, this splendid collection of her portraits re-introduces a strikingly beautiful woman on the centennial of her birth in 1905. Garbo had two leading... Read More

The rediscovery of forgotten women writers leaps ahead with this biography of a woman whose life defied the idealized domesticity that confined late Victorian ladies. Like the Brontës, she initially published as a man, but her... Read More

“Was John Lennon a mean bastard? A foolish prankster? A musical tyrant?” These are a few of the provocative questions that the author asks and answers in this personal account of arguably the most famous, and certainly the most... Read More

Harry Houdini declared that false mediums had plans to do him in, that they would go to any ends to stop him. “When I die,” Houdini was often quoted as saying, “the fraudulent mediums will declare the day a national holiday.”... Read More

More than forty years after his death, Kennedy remains an icon of charming and effective leadership. Although young and relatively inexperienced when elected, JFK gave the impression that he was born with the skills that took him to the... Read More

Princess Passion: Born to royalty in a land with monarchic mystique … raised in fortune, her life a quiet reflection of grace … married amid unprecedented worldwide adulation … killed tragically, a possible victim of the media she... Read More