Primo Levi's biographers offer no improvement on the original, whose unabridged voice we need to heed more than ever.
Eliot Cohen's look at the greatest democratic statesman of recent centuries affirms Clemenceau's quip that war is too important to be left to the generals--even American generals.
Edward Teller's life vindicated Francis Bacon's prediction of the man of science in the public realm. Teller's memoir would vindicate Teller.
Christopher Hitchens' diatribe against Henry Kissinger should disappoint even the most credulous of the statesman's opponents. Effective polemic this is not.
Well-trained historians need not be specialists, as P.M.H. Bell's illuminating new volume confirms.
A dissection of the few pluses and many minuses of the crusading approach to American foreign policy.
Vichy functionary, socialist politician, conservative president--the story of an amazingly adaptable Frenchman.
The death of the Ottoman Empire was a case of suicide, not homicide.
War on the silver screen. A new film refights the Gulf War--but this time for a higher purpose/
Senator Moynihan has expanded his appendix to the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy report into an elegant, quotable, scholarly, and timely book.