Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at LSU, where he earned distinction as an author of numerous works about early America. Among his credits are a well-received biography of ...
In the spring of 1962, John F. Kennedy held a dinner at the White House for Nobel Prize laureates from nations of the Western Hemisphere. Opening his remarks, he rather famously said, “I think this is ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The flood of popular books about heroes of the American Revolution has not helped Thomas Jefferson. David McCullough's ...
How Garry Trudeau and William F. Buckley Bridged Partisan Divides A Hollywood Revenge Sermon The Ali–Inoki Fight at 50 A careful study of the third president's moral and religious life suggests he was ...
The key to Jefferson’s paradoxes, they argue, is that he gradually came to see himself as a “republican patriarch.” He reconciled his commitment to equality with his sense of personal superiority and ...
Reviewed for THE NEW YORK TIMES SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS by Cyrus Townsend Brady. New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it ...
Thomas Jefferson inspires so many biographies and critiques that our impressions of him seem to fluctuate from decade to decade. His views on religion, race and government are regularly parsed, and ...
In “His Masterly Pen,” a thoroughly engrossing study of Thomas Jefferson, Fred Kaplan demonstrates that he, too, wields a masterly pen. Although the subtitle of the book describes it as “a biography ...
With Independence Day coming, what better time to read up on the men and women who founded and fostered our nation? Don't know where to start? We do! We've rounded up the top 10 best-selling ...
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