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Half empty or half full? “Is the glass half empty or half full?” is a common expression, used rhetorically to indicate that a particul...

Lyndon B. Johnson,  South Vietnam, 1966 In December 2009, Michael Lindenberger wrote “Obama's Afghanistan decision evokes LBJ's 1...

From NPR's Morning Edition : You might say Nora Ephron — raised in Beverly Hills, the daughter of New York playwrights who moved west to...

From the Pritzker Military Library : From the beginning, the nation’s commander-in-chief and its capitalists have been uneasy partners in th...

From the American Thinker (January, 2011) : In a fascinating book entitled Furs, Fortune, and Empire (New York, 2010), Eric Jay Dolin recoun...

From the New America Foundation : Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of energy. Her book about the oil supply chain...

From Time Magazine : For Justin Halpern, going home was his lucky break. A year ago, Halpern was a 28-year-old writer who after splitting up...

An American Life is the 1990 autobiography authored by former American President Ronald Reagan. Released almost two years after President Re...

Moustafa Bayoumi is an award-winning writer, and associate professor of English at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. Born in Zü...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction novel by Laura Hillenbrand, author of the best-...

Decision Points is a memoir by former U.S. President George W. Bush. It was released on November 9, 2010, and the release is being accompani...

Harvard Magazine recently wrote: DANIEL RASMUSSEN ’09 found his senior thesis topic where the history books left off: scattered but brief re...

The New York Times recently wrote of the book and author: Although the gender politics of the day did not afford Abigail the opportunities e...

In December, 2010, The Washington Post wrote this about the author and book: Pauline Maier, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American...

In December, 2010, the Financial Times had this to say about the book: The book’s title is taken from the Greek myth in which Procrustes fit...

[2010-12-16 12:00:00] How did family jealousy culminate in the assassination of one of America's greatest presidents? We'll find out...

Travis E. Poling and co-author Paul W. Hightower’s book is a guide to nearly three dozen breweries, microbreweries, and brewpubs across Texa...