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Kennedy advisor Ted Sorensen found that of all the U.S. presidents, Lincoln had the best speechwriter—himself
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A genealogical surprise led the author to ask: What does it take to be one of the family?
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Following in Marco Polo's footsteps through Asia leads our intrepid author to some surprising conclusions
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Charles Darwin's bid for enduring fame was sparked 150 years ago by word of a rival's research
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A new survey upends the conventional wisdom about who counts in American history
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Two decades ago an anonymous telephone call sank Gary Hart's presidential campaign—and rewrote the rules of political reporting
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How The Phantom of the Opera led me to a long-lost musical treasure in Paris
Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output
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They made us who we are, some researchers now say
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Why the biofuels movement could run out of gas
One hundred fifty years after its publication, Henry David Thoreau's meditation remains the ultimate self-help book
An ancient Greek wrote the book on biography then and now
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