"The Gatekeepers" is a fascinating book focusing on the chief of staff role from Nixon to Obama, ending with a bit of speculation about the man serving Donald Trump.
For most readers, the indignation will probably flow mainly from the CIA's truly despicable activities, not from its curious obsession with the editorial machinations of the literary elite.
An unsparing depiction of the so-called Neo-Conservatives, a clique of intellectuals and ideologues from whose ranks key staffers were appointed to the Bush administration’s Pentagon and the office of Vice President Cheney.
Frankel’s tale of Hollywood politics in the 1950s reminds us that the vehement passions of the contemporary political scene are not necessarily new, and somehow we survived the anticommunist crusade.
Its title captures the mood of New York in 1975, when a leaflet shouted, “WELCOME TO FEAR CITY,” and called itself “A Survival Guide for Visitors to the City of New York.”
Dickson’s biography of Leo Durocher captures the bright sunshine and optimism of baseball but also its dark side, which is revealed through a man with an inferiority complex and a gambling problem.
A taut read running at 396 pages, this book reexamines détente by focusing on the secret back channel maintained by Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.
What Pleshakov does exceedingly well in "The Crimean Nexus" is provide Americans with a clear-eyed, insightful alternative to our customary good guy/bad guy imagery, which lays all the blame on Putin.
Historians of Russia will especially appreciate this book, but historians in general will discover much of value in this latest translated novel of one of Russia’s greatest living writers.
The formed executive editor of the New York Times has written a compelling and judicious book on FDR that goes well beyond the president's final months in office.
