Liz Thomson is the author of Joan Baez: The Last Leaf and the revising editor of Robert Shelton’s biography Bob Dylan: No ...

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Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...

George Orwell knew that truth can take many ... Max Boot’s book aspires to be the “definitive” biography but it is too polemical to achieve that objective. Writing during World War II ...

Love anything enough and it will reveal its secrets to you.” So said George Washington Carver, one of the world’s greatest of scientists, yet most modest of men. Glenn Clark, ...

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

The NBA, for the 39 th year, will play games on MLK Day; on the same day, for only the second time, the presidential ...

President Jimmy Carter was honored in a state funeral in Washington on Thursday, alongside a private memorial in Georgia.

At a crossroads, he turned increasingly for solace to his faith,” wrote Peter Bourne in his biography of Carter ... Richard Nixon won 49 states in 1972, leaving Democratic nominee George McGovern and ...

Nevertheless, he’s one of the most significant figures in Chicago Cubs history. That’s Charles “Lucky Charlie” Weeghman, who ...

Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, ...