Aram Bakshian Jr., a contributing editor at The National Interest, served as an aide to presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan and writes frequently on politics, history and the humanities.
There are memoirs that pose as histories and histories that pose as memoirs. Peter Stothard’s imaginative The Senecans is a bit of both and a little of neither.
After a long period of historical neglect, the Holy Roman Empire has finally found a modern chronicler to bring it back to life for contemporary readers.
As Ben Macintyre’s biography of Kim Philby demonstrates, it was the very strength of the British ruling class that left it prone to betrayal from within once old certainties and loyalties began to falter.
