After September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda and one of its leaders, Osama bin Laden, became household words. News organizations monitored the organization’s every move, and the media broadcast almost daily the messages that various political... Read More

Hot lights and dozens of cameras point at a Supreme Court nominee seated behind a long table. Sharp questions crackle from Senators on the Judiciary Committee and the candidates bob and weave like prize fighters. According to Eisgruber,... Read More

Longtime political partner and friend of President Ronald Reagan, William P. “The Judge” Clark, often said that one of his goals was to “Let Reagan be Reagan.” He spent more than twenty years doing just that. Born into a... Read More

Henry Kissinger was likely the most controversial Secretary of State in American history, reviled by his detractors but respected by heads of state throughout the world. Unlike several earlier Kissinger biographies, Suri presents a... Read More

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull,” this introductory epigraph of "Speechless" is a quotation from Nineteen Eighty-four. What follows is Barry’s assertion that some of Orwell’s predictions... Read More

Each year, 195,000 book titles make it into print. Authors are often disheartened when they discover the publicity machine they imagined, one that takes their title from obscurity to bestseller seemingly overnight, fails to materialize.... Read More

Although Michael Jackson has stayed out the public eye for the past few months, his tale is well known to legions of celebrity gossip mongers: a talented young kid who got off track, destroyed his face through too much plastic surgery,... Read More

Recent explosions, assassinations, and kidnappings in Iraq are the latest gruesome outgrowths of the fourteen-centuries-old divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims, which began in the wake of the Prophet Muhammad’s death in the year 632.... Read More