Book Review: Fallen Glory
/A lavishly-produced new book details humanity's long love-hate relationship with some of its most famous and iconic buildings.
Read MoreA lavishly-produced new book details humanity's long love-hate relationship with some of its most famous and iconic buildings.
Read MoreThe author's multi-volume history of Ancient Egypt now reaches the high points of that culture's power and refinement.
Read MoreA richly rewarding new book narrates the long and complicated history of the American quest for - and fight against - life, liberty, and the pursuit of sex.
Read MoreLong before the Great Recession shook the modern world to its financial foundations, there was the Great Depression, the subject of a gripping new history.
Read MorePoor innocent Lady Jane Grey has been an ostentatious martyr to the Protestant cause for centuries; a new book tells her brief but familiar life story as continues.
Read MoreThe Soviet Union billed itself as a scientific utopia, and yet, as a tremendously readable new history illustrates, the awkward of marriage of state and science gave rise to a parade of absurdities.
Read MoreA warm, engaging memoir takes readers inside the post-presidency years of Ronald Reagan
Read MoreA concise, hard-hitting new book outlines the long history of secrecy at the heart of US government
Read MoreA new history by the author of Hunting the President uncovers the long history of US presidential assassination attempts
Read MoreA wide-ranging and deeply-researched new book chronicles the history of an influential Washington political salon
Read MoreThe great old fortress of good taste, Hardwick Hall, is the focus of a beautiful new anthology of essays on the place's storied art and architecture
Read MoreA new book on the famous Tudor dynasty promises that most alluring of all perspectives on royalty: the back-stage details. But can it succeed? A Year with the Tudors continues.
Read MoreDown below the sidewalks of London, a warren of secret rooms housed the war effort while bombs were falling on the city; a lavish new book tours the war rooms.
Read MoreAs a new book about Eisenhower and Kennedy makes clear, transitions of presidential power, especially between rival parties, have always been testy.
Read MoreLong 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 MoreJane Seymour is in many ways the most elusive of all the wives of King Henry VIII, dying just weeks after giving the king his longed-for male heir. A new novel delves into the human connection between Henry and his third wife.
Read MoreA master historian analyzes the tumultuous century that gave rise to the modern era
Read MoreFor 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 MoreThe gripping true story of celebrated KGB assassin - and defector.
Read MoreAn invigorating new history looks at the American Revolution from a wide-angle international view
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