From Howard Marks and Ken Langone to ‘Caddyshack’ and Apollo 8, an eclectic list of seven books from a banner year.
Seventy-five years ago today in the darkest hours of a starless, moonless night, a Japanese destroyer cut in half the patrol torpedo boat commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy.
There are two classic one-volume Churchill biographies—one is more than five times longer than the other one.
In June 1948, President Truman overrode his generals, ordered the Berlin Airlift and humiliated the Russians.
A central actor in the Reagan Revolution chronicles the rise of supply-side economics.
How the Fed was started as America’s lender of last resort.
Irish scribes led by St. Patrick, himself born a Romanized Briton, salvaged western literature from book-burning barbarians.
Nick Murray calls Dave Maraniss’s 1999 biography of Vince Lombardi one of the best on any mid-twentieth century American.
The economic boom of the 1920s was fueled by a Treasury secretary who slashed marginal tax rates repeatedly.
Ebeneezer Scrooge had nightmares that his "solid British assets" were converted into dubious U.S. securities.
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