Book 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 MoreBook Review: The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
/The famed writer of "You Know Me Al" was also a life-long prolific deadline writer. An invaluable new book collects the journalism of Ring Lardner.
Read MoreBook Review: The Pursuit of Power
/A master historian analyzes the tumultuous century that gave rise to the modern era
Read MoreShirley Hazzard
/Shirley Hazzard
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: Rasputin
/The mesmerizing lunatic who grafted himself onto the Romanov dynasty in its final decades gets a highly detailed new biography.
Read MoreBook Review: Brothers at Arms
/An invigorating new history looks at the American Revolution from a wide-angle international view
Read MoreBook Review: The First Victory
/The tough and bitter East Africa campaign of 1941 receives a comprehensive new history.
Read MoreWilliam Trevor
/William Trevor
Read MoreBook Review: The Vanquished
/A thought-provoking new history shines a spotlight on the long and brutal aftermath of the First World War
Read MoreBook Review: Fifty English Steeples
/That familiar glory of medieval English architecture -the church spire - is the subject of a stunning new book.
Read MoreBook Review: Egyptomania
/A new book chronicles the world's enduring fascination with Ancient Egypt
Read MoreBook Review: Herbert Hoover
/Depression-era US President Herbert Hoover has always been easy to malign - a new biography argues that he's just as easy to underestimate
Read MoreBook Review: Charlemagne
/The larger-than-life medieval Frankish king Charlemagne is the subject of a definitive single-volume biography now translated into English
Read MoreBook Review: Turner
/A sumptuous new biography of the man behind the Turner legend
Read MoreBook Review: Black Elk
/The Sioux medicine man and centerpiece of "Black Elk Speaks" is the subject of a comprehensive new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
/A big new biography attempts to get at the flesh-and-blood man behind the problematic theory of Marxism
Read MoreBook Review: Something in the Blood
/A big, generous new biography of the man who created Dracula
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