Book Review: Fallen Glory
/A lavishly-produced new book details humanity's long love-hate relationship with some of its most famous and iconic buildings.
Read MoreBook Review: A History of Ancient Egypt from the Great Pyramid to the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
/The author's multi-volume history of Ancient Egypt now reaches the high points of that culture's power and refinement.
Read MoreBook Review: Sex and the Constitution
/A richly rewarding new book narrates the long and complicated history of the American quest for - and fight against - life, liberty, and the pursuit of sex.
Read MoreBook Review: A Rabble of Dead Money
/Long before the Great Recession shook the modern world to its financial foundations, there was the Great Depression, the subject of a gripping new history.
Read MorePoor innocent Lady Jane Grey has been an ostentatious martyr to the Protestant cause for centuries; a new book tells her brief but familiar life story as continues.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin and the Scientists
/The Soviet Union billed itself as a scientific utopia, and yet, as a tremendously readable new history illustrates, the awkward of marriage of state and science gave rise to a parade of absurdities.
Read MoreBook Review: The President Will See You Now
/A warm, engaging memoir takes readers inside the post-presidency years of Ronald Reagan
Read MoreBook Review: Presidents' Secrets
/A concise, hard-hitting new book outlines the long history of secrecy at the heart of US government
Read MoreBook Review: Plotting to Kill the President
/A new history by the author of Hunting the President uncovers the long history of US presidential assassination attempts
Read MoreBook Review: The House of Truth
/A wide-ranging and deeply-researched new book chronicles the history of an influential Washington political salon
Read MoreBook Review: Hardwick Hall
/The great old fortress of good taste, Hardwick Hall, is the focus of a beautiful new anthology of essays on the place's storied art and architecture
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: Have You Heard It?
/A new book on the famous Tudor dynasty promises that most alluring of all perspectives on royalty: the back-stage details. But can it succeed? A Year with the Tudors continues.
Read MoreBook Review: Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms
/Down below the sidewalks of London, a warren of secret rooms housed the war effort while bombs were falling on the city; a lavish new book tours the war rooms.
Read MoreBook Review: Three Days in January
/As a new book about Eisenhower and Kennedy makes clear, transitions of presidential power, especially between rival parties, have always been testy.
Read MoreBook Review: The House of the Dead
/Long before the Soviet gulag, Russian dissidents, criminals, and political exiles were sent to the vast frozen wasteland of Siberia. A grim new book tells their stories.
Read MoreA Year with the Tudors II: “You Are My Grace”
/Jane Seymour is in many ways the most elusive of all the wives of King Henry VIII, dying just weeks after giving the king his longed-for male heir. A new novel delves into the human connection between Henry and his third wife.
Read MoreBook Review: The Pursuit of Power
/A master historian analyzes the tumultuous century that gave rise to the modern era
Read MoreBook Review: The Good Occupation
/For the thousands of US and Allied troops who were ordered to remain behind and help rebuilt countries the Allies had just defeated, their war was extended and altered. A new book dissects the on-the-ground realities attending the aftermath of conquest.
Read MoreBook Review: The Man with the Poison Gun
/The gripping true story of celebrated KGB assassin - and defector.
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers at Arms
/An invigorating new history looks at the American Revolution from a wide-angle international view
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