Book Review: Citizen Emperor
/A big new volume studies Napoleon Bonaparte from the peak of his power to the last days of his final exile
Read MoreBook Review: George Washington - Gentleman Warrior
/A born warrior striving to become a refined gentleman, or a refined gentleman striving to learn a warrior's ways? A new book looks at Washington the military commander
Read MoreBook Review: Divine Fury
/They've always been among us, those rare individuals we call geniuses - but the distinction's meaning has subtly altered over the centuries. It's a big, interesting subject, boiled down by Darrin McMahon into a short, interesting book
Read MoreBook Review: Barksdale's Charge
/Every reader of history has heard of Pickett's Charge, the so-called high-tide mark of the Confederate cause, but the author of a new book contends that the true pivotal point was another charge altogether, led by a different man - on a different day.
Read MoreBook Review: Save the Enemy
/A quirky teenage girl comes home one day to find her father missing, and she quickly learns he's being held hostage. When she sets herself to save him, Arin Greenwood's YA novel "Save the Enemy" is off and running - and sometimes tripping over itself
Read MoreBook Review - Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
/A great conductor writes a great biography about a great composer!
Read MoreBook Review: Churchill and the King
/King George VI and Winston Churchill forged a remarkable working relationship during the trying years of World War II - a new book looks at how it happened, and why
Read MoreNick Cardy
/Nick Cardy
Read MoreBook Review: The Governor's Lady
/Strong-willed Southern governor Cooper Lanier's husband is running for president, and she's learning things about him she'd rather not know in Robert Inman's warm and involving new novel
Read MoreBook Review: 'Mr. President'
/First in war, first in peace, first in line for the powers of a god
Read MoreQuick, Off the Mark
/Campaign books have short shelf-lives - and they deserve them, since most of them have about as much introspection as yesterday's racing form. Greg Waldmann reads a recent book on the pivotal 2012 U.S. presidential election.
Read MoreBook Review: Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
/The great critic and memoirist Clive James has a volume of new poems doing some very old things
Read MoreMichael Palmer
/Michael Palmer, 1942-2013
Read MoreBook Review: Octopus!
/The strangest, most alien creatures on the Earth have three hearts and big, unfathomable brains - and, famously, eight arms. It's the sprawling family of octopus species, and they get a soup-to-nuts examination in Katherine Harmon Courage's new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Spanish Queen
/King Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, takes center stage in a new novel by Tudor historian Carolly Erickson
Read MoreBook Review: The Urban Bestiary
/Coyotes prowl our golf courses, cougars haunt our bike-trails, and owls skinny-dip in our bird-baths - a new book looks at the wild animals that fill in the spaces of human cities
Read MoreBook Review: Naturalists at Sea
/When the South Pacific opened up for Western exploration, 'experimental gentlemen' swarmed there to make discoveries - and to make history
Read MoreBook Review: Jonathan Swift
/It's not every writer who can write a book that stays in print continuously for 300 years, but the author of "Gulliver's Travels" is one of those writers. A lively new biography looks at the great Jonathan Swift
Read MoreBook Review: Henry VIII - The Life and Rule of England's Nero
/England's 'bluff king Hal' is put under the microscope in a scathing new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Tudors
/Our reigning master of vigorous popular history takes on the most vigorous, popular English dynasty of them all
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