Book Review: Louis XVI
/The glittering Bourbon king who lost his head to the Revolution gets a sumptuous newly-expanded biography
Read MoreBook Review: Toward Democracy
/The long and constantly-unfinished process of democracy is given a sprawling examination in James Kloppenberg's new book.
Read MoreBook Review: Commander in Chief
/In 1943, American President Franklin Roosevelt faced the strong-willed rivalry of his own nominal ally, Winston Churchill
Read MoreBook Review: MacArthur at War
/The mercurial, often infuriating Pacific Theater commander Douglas MacArthur is the subject of Walter Borneman's terrific new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Bitter Taste of Victory
/Lara Feigel's new book delves into the landscape of the apocalypse: Germany in the immediate wake of Allied victory.
Read MoreBook Review: In Gratitude
/Novelist and essayist Jenny Diski faithfully chronicled her own dying from cancer. A new book collects her last and greatest literary work.
Read MoreBook Review: Anatomy of Malice
/A gripping new book looks at a quartet of the worst Nazi war criminals to stand trial.
Read MoreBook Review: Saladin
/A lean and fast-paced new biography tells the story of the legendary sultan who took Jerusalem from the Crusaders
Read MoreBook Review: The Genius of Birds
/A stirring, eloquent new book makes a wide-ranging case for the brainpower of birds
Read MoreBook Review: The Faith of Christopher Hitchens
/A provocative new book sets out to study the faith of one of the country's most famous atheists
Read MoreBook Review: The End of Karma
/A clear-eyed look at the disaffected youth of India
Read MoreBook Review: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich
/A new book looks at the little-known figure of Hitler's chosen successor
Read MoreBook Review: Prisoners of Hope
/A generation ago, President Johnson enacted a stunning array of social legislation, the full audacity of which has often been overshadowed by the other aspects of LBJ's presidency. A new book shines a light on the Great Society.
Read MoreBook Review: The First Nazi
/How much of the evil of Adolf Hitler can be traced to an infamous general of the First World War?
Read MoreBook Review: Valiant Ambition
/The infamous treachery of Benedict Arnold gets a vigorous and richly detailed new retelling by the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea.
Read More'Yes, Yes, Yes!'
/To be immortalized by Shakespeare is often also to be caricatured by him; a sumptuous new biography of King Henry IV admirably brings its royal subject out of the Bard's shadow.
Read MoreFrom Some Mountain Summit High in the Air: Lord Acton and History
/History remembers him as the author of the famous dictum about power corrupting, but Lord Acton led an intense and fascinating life. Luciano Mangiafico tells his story.
Read MoreBook Review: Running with Rhinos
/The heroic efforts to save the lives of the black rhinos of Zimbabwe are at the heart of a thrilling new book
Read MoreJenny Diski
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Read MoreBook Review: The Habsburg Empire: A New History
/A new history takes a thought-provokingly centralist look at the oft-chronicled Habsburg Empire
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