How can one write history so that it seems like a thriller? How does one write a biography without making the subject the centerpiece of the narrative? I have no idea if David Pietrusza asked himself ...

THIS is a ‘personal' rather than an ‘intimate’ biography, and the reader learns almost as much of Mr. Thayer’s views on recent public questions as of Roosevelt’s creed and conduct. The earlier ...

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly... Volume 3 Of Eleanor Roosevelt Biography Chronicles ...

HOLLYWOOD — Jonathan Taplin and daughter Daniela Soto-Taplin have acquired the feature film rights to Edmund Morris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.” Material will ...

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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 ...