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Byline: Alec Rogers - Special to The Washington Times JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: AMERICAN VISIONARYBy Fred KaplanHarper, $29.99, 672 pages When Secretary of State John F. Kerry declared the Monroe Doctrine, [...]

Byline: Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washington Times JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON: THE RIVALRY THAT FORGED A NATIONBy John FerlingBloomsbury Press, $30, 436 pages Poisonous feuds have long been [...]

Byline: Martin Rubin - Special to The Washington Times THE SECRET ROOMS: A TRUE STORY OF A HAUNTED CASTLE, A PLOTTING DUCHESS, AND A FAMILY SECRETBy Catherine BaileyPenguin, $16, 465 [...]

Byline: Peter Hannaford, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES What a life. What a man. What a book. Only superlatives can describe this definitive biography of the nation's most popular and [...]

Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES This past November marked the centenary of the woman born Vivian Hartley in Darjeeling, India, who the world knew as that transcendently [...]

Byline: Paul Davis, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The sign on the wounded Navy SEAL's hospital door at the Walter Reed National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda was written on [...]

Byline: Joseph C. Goulden, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES One of the more telling - and accurate - statements to emerge from the American Revolution came from a British intelligence [...]

Byline: Michael Taube, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES The evolution of the comic strip has been seen through the eyes of historians, academics, critics, fans and even the cartoonists themselves. [...]

Byline: David DesRosiers, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES As we return to reality from the lazy, hazy days of summer, we find our nation war-weary, broke and politically fractured. We [...]

Byline: Aram Bakshian Jr., SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES A few pages into George Packer's The Unwinding, I was reminded of the closing scene in Touch of Evil, the last [...]

Byline: David DesRosiers, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Watch out, fraudsters. James O'Keefe is celebrating coming off federal probation with a New York Times best-seller, Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to [...]

Byline: John R. Coyne Jr. , SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES With a sharp eye for detail, crisp and often evocative prose, an understanding of politics and politicians, and the [...]

Byline: Muriel Dobbin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES It was a time when Manhattan had muddy cobblestone streets, boiled coffee was the latest fad from France, rioters tore down Mrs. [...]

Byline: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES In 1991, Randall Tietjen, newly minted from law school, had the idea that a book of letters written by famed lawyer [...]

Byline: John M. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Nearly seven decades have passed since the close of World War II, yet appreciation of its horrors seems to increase as [...]

Byline: David Wilezol, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES It is disappointing that Calvin Coolidge is consistently relegated to the hinterlands of America's presidential landscape. There are several reasons for this. [...]

Byline: John R. Coyne Jr. SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Paul Dickson, a noted author, commentator and lexicographer, warms up the audience by opening this entertaining and informative book with [...]

Byline: Muriel Dobbin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES It might be said that the seeds of Jack Nelson's legendary career as an investigative reporter were planted at the age of [...]

Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES At first glance, the natural reaction to Martin Amis: The Biography might be to place a question mark after the title - [...]

Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Once a staple of required high school reading - and performance - in the United States, the works of Thornton Wilder have [...]

Byline: Claire Hopley, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Reading reviews of art exhibitions in distant metropolises can evoke envy for pleasures and excitements that are impossible to share because the [...]

Byline: Muriel Dobbin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES There is no Christmas cheer in a British garrison in India in 1857. In the wake of the massacre of Cawnpore in [...]

Byline: Joseph C. Goulden, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES On the morning of March 1, 1917, virtually every American newspaper published a bombshell story: a report on a telegram from [...]

Byline: John M. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Was Charles Darwin the most influential author of the 19th century? One can make a case for Karl Marx, but otherwise [...]

Byline: Seth Mandel, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES By the time Franklin D. Roosevelt died in April 1945, his grand vision of the world was rapidly slipping from his grasp. [...]

Byline: Michael Taube, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES For more than a century, a successful archetype in newspaper comics has been the child-focused strip. The honors list is exceedingly long [...]

Byline: David Wilezol, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Aida Donald's Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman doesn't try to do too much. It doesn't have to. Truman has [...]

Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES This biographical triptych shines a spotlight on the lesser-known lives of three exceptional women in the 20th century. All of them swam [...]

Byline: Aram Bakshian Jr., SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Alexandra Popoff's The Wives is a book that most women will love and most feminists will hate - the story of [...]

Byline: Priscilla S. Taylor, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Bob Spitz, a journalist and celebrity biographer (think the Beatles), met and developed a self-described crush on Julia Child on a [...]

Byline: Wes Vernon, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Did Americans really know Barack Obama when they voted to make him their 44th president? Many of them had never heard of [...]

Byline: Joseph C. Goulden, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Spies and Commissars serves up a rich witch's brew of intelligence intrigue and chicanery, bubbling with rogue characters who changed names [...]

Byline: David Wilezol, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES A one-volume macro-history is the best sort of history book. Though it rarely matches the literary panache and Herculean scholar- ship of, [...]

Byline: William Murchison, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES I think what's generally expected of a seventh-generation Texan, not to mention a Rick Perry voter, reviewing a New York writer's put-down [...]

Byline: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Most Washingtonians are familiar with the bronze statue commonly titled Grief that resides in Rock Creek Cemetery. The shrouded figure, by [...]

Byline: Robert VerBruggen, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES It must be hard to write a corporate history that makes for gripping reading, but Paul M. Barrett has done just that [...]

Byline: Nicole Russell, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES In the efforts to illuminate our nation's beginnings either via epic cable series or expertly written biographies - it seems James Madison, [...]

Byline: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Andre a Wulf, a British horticultural historian, is one of those rare and talented writers with a distinctive narrative voice. Just [...]