Intellectuals, academics, and most of the media slapped a halo over FDR to consecrate both his welfare state and his warring.

Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Theodore Roosevelt (and the author of a critically panned biography of Ronald Reagan), has returned with the third and final volume of his ...

With "Colonel Roosevelt," historian Edmund Morris wraps up a highly praised biography of Theodore Roosevelt that began 30 years ago with "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" and continued in 2001 with ...

If you harbor doubts that Theodore Roosevelt was larger than life, consider the events of Oct. 14, 1912, as recounted in Colonel Roosevelt, the third and final volume in Edmund Morris ' monumental ...

Last things first. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the third volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the way it ends. I don't think I've ever read another ...

Maybe it’s because we’re in an election year that I’ve had a renewed interest in those who have occupied the Oval Office. For a while I took a crack at Scott McClellan’s book, “What Happened,” on his ...

Dreamworks, the studio that previously brought us Lincoln, from director Steven Spielberg, based on the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin, has acquired the rights to another book by Goodwin, the upcoming ...

Beloved and reviled, a spokeswoman for progressive causes who fashioned an independent life within a complicated marriage, Eleanor Roosevelt cuts a surprisingly contemporary figure. For several ...

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Last things first. One of the most extraordinary aspects of the third volume of Blanche Wiesen Cook's monumental biography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the way it ends. I don't think I've ever read another ...