N. Jack “Dusty” Kleiss was awarded the Navy Cross for his exploits during that battle. His life becomes real in the book, ...

As the only president elected to four terms and who saw the country through two of its greatest cataclysms — the Great ...

The Cornfield Prophet” Henry A. Wallace, known for his pioneering work in agriculture, was a progressive statesman who ...

Grassley, upon entering Congress in 1975, quickly developed a reputation for exposing corruption and waste. He once drove to ...

With apologies to T. S. Eliot, December might be the cruelest month — at least for publishing. As imprints focus on awards season and holiday sales, several of this month’s best titles are out as ...

“We have entered a period of nostalgia and reaction. We want the past back though we have no idea what it was.” Marilynn Robinson, The Death of Adam “I feel that I should have spent much more time ...

Amid historic advances in cell-based therapies and precision medicine, biotech’s biggest challenge isn’t scientific, it’s political. In a new pharmaphorum podcast, James Roosevelt Jr, a longtime ...

The youngest and favorite son of former President Theodore Roosevelt, Quentin, was groomed from a young age to carry on his family’s political legacy. A rambunctious, but intelligent youth, Quentin ...

THE AGE OF ROOSEVELT, I—THE CRISIS OF THE OLD ORDER, 1919-1933 (557 pp.)—Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.—Houghton Mifflin ($6). In 1919 a handsome young New York aristocrat with a politically useful name ...

Tamara Payne, the daughter of former Newsday journalist Les Payne, is coming to Roosevelt Public Library on Thursday to talk about "The Dead Are Arising," her father's biography of Malcolm X that she ...

Seth Doane is an award-winning CBS News correspondent based in Rome, Italy since 2016. Doane has covered terrorist attacks and breaking news across Europe, traveled with Pope Francis as part of his ...