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Stalin's Folly: The Tragic First Ten Days of WWII on the Eastern Front By Constantine Pleshakov Houghton Mifflin. 326 pp. $26.00. What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa By David [...]

The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War 1941-1943 By Alan Schom Norton. 540 pp. $28.95. THIS BOOK should come with a warning label. Its title notwithstanding, the author […]

In 1944 when Gunnar Myrdal published his monumental study of U.S. race relations, he named it An American Dilemma. After half a century of struggle we are still caught in [...]

Crusader Nation: The United States in Peace and the Great War, 1898-1920 By David Traxel Knopf. 432 pp. $27.50. NUMEROUS WORKS on the Progressive Era already exist. One might therefore [...]

Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy By David Stevenson Basic. 564 pp. $35.00. UNLIKE most one-volume histories of World War I, Cataclysm pays close attention to the internal [...]

The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I By Thomas Fleming Basic Books. 576 pp. $35.00. THOMAS FLEMING knows a lot about the American war experience in 1917-18, and [...]

By Lawrence W. Levine Beacon. 212 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, 'A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World [...]

By Christopher J. Lucas St. Martin s. 288 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, 'A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad [...]

What more is there to say about General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, one of the greatest soldiers and most annoying men America has ever produced? Not a lot, it [...]

What more is there to say about General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, one of the greatest soldiers and most annoying men America has ever produced? Not a lot, it [...]

By Norman Rose Free Press. 516pp. $25.00. Of the seven or eight truly great political figures of this century, four at a critical point shared the same stage--Winston Churchill, Franklin [...]

By Andrew Roberts Simon & Schuster. 354pp. 27.50. Of the seven or eight truly great political figures of this century, four at a critical point shared the same stage--Winston Churchill, [...]

MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero By Stanley Weintraub Free Press. 386 pp. $27.50. STANLEY WEINTRAUB, a respected military historian and Korean War veteran, has written […]

Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973,1990 By Stephen E. Ambrose Simon and Schuster. 667 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of History, Rutgers; author, American High: The Years of [...]

THE CRITICISM Dinesh D'Souza's book has been receiving is a function of its honesty. The politicization of academic life is something educators would rather not read about, so many respond [...]

By Jean Edward Smith Simon & Schuster. 781 pp. $35.00. ULYSSES S. GRANT'S reputation as a general has ebbed and flowed. But even at its lowest level, when he was [...]

FDR: The War President: 1940-1943 By Kenneth S. Davis Random. 928 pp. $39.95. KENNETH S. DAVIS, a respected novelist and historian, died in 1999 before he could complete his projected [...]

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator By Arthur Herman Free Press. 382 pp. $26.00. IN THE INTEREST of full disclosure, I must confess that [...]

Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945 By Leo Marks Free Press. 622 pp. $27.50. TODAY Leo Marks is a screenwriter and memoirist. But in 1942, as a very [...]

The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-1945 By Michael Beschloss Simon & Schuster. 377 pp. $26.95. MICHAEL BESCHLOSS is a respected historian, better known than most […]

War and the American Presidency By Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Norton. 160 pp. $23.95. ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER Jr., the dean of American historians and an active Democrat, published his first [...]

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime By Eliot A. Cohen Free Press. 320 pp. $25.00. ALTHOUGH most of Eliot A. Cohen's book is devoted to four case studies, [...]

The Story of World War II By Donald L. Miller Simon & Schuster. 704 pp. $35.00. This is ostensibly a revised and expanded version of The Story of the Second [...]

By James Chace Simon and Schuster. 512 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, 'A Democracy at War. America s Fight at Home and Abroad [...]

Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative author whose two previous books include Illiberal Education (1991), a survey of political correctness in academia, has written an often entertaining account of Ronald Reagan's Presidency. [...]

Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative author whose two previous books include Illiberal Education (1991), a survey of political correctness in academia, has written an often entertaining account of Ronald Reagan's Presidency. [...]

By Nathan Glazer Harvard. 179 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, 'A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War [...]

CORNELIUS RYAN'S classic The Longest Day, though still a wonderful read, came out in 1959 when much vital information about Operation Overlord remained classified or was otherwise unavailable. Thus a [...]

DAVID HALBERSTAM, one of the country's outstanding joumahsts in the 1960s, was among the first to report not only that the Vietnam War was going badly but that Americans were [...]

The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials By Telford Taylor Knopf.. 703 pp. $35.00. TELFORD TAYLOR is a distinguished attorney and legal scholar who has written many books, including Munich: The [...]

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America By Garry Wills Simon and Schuster. 254 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of History, Rutgers; author, 'American High: The [...]

The True and Only heaven: Progress and Its Critics CHRISTOPHER LASCH, a professor of history at the University of Rochester, has been familiar to the literate public since 1965, when [...]

General of the Army: George C. Marshall -- Soldier Statesman GEORGE C. MARSHALL was one of the greatest public servants this country has ever produced. As Chief of Staff of [...]

Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson SELDOM has an eagerly awaited book been more disappointing than this second volume of Robert A. Caro's biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, [...]

IN SEARCH OF NIXON NO MAN ALIVE has had as long, as important or as controversial a political career as Richard M. Nixon. Numerous books have been written about him [...]

The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses By Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate Free Press. 415 pp. $27.50. In the early '90s there was a [...]

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954,63 By Taylor Branch Simon and Schuster. 922 pp. $24.95. THE HISTORY of race relations, not only in this country but virtually [...]

The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe By Russell Jacoby Basic. 290 pp. $18.95. RUSSELL JACOBY rightly maintains that for most of this century there have been [...]

Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants and Their War By Eric LarrabeeHarper & Row. 723 pp. $25.00. THIS SUPERB book will give muchpleasure to anyone who is curious [...]

Eisenhower at War: 1943-1945 David Eisenhower's Eisenhower at War could hardly be more different from Brendon's work, albeit not in the ways one might expect. Knowing that the author is [...]

Ike: His Life and Times WE HAVE long needed a good one volume biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The definitive Eisenhower (1983, 1984) by Stephen Ambrose, though masterly, runs to [...]

The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command By Burton I. Kaufman Temple. 390 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Wiliam L. [...]

Korea: The First War We Lost Korea: The First War We Lost By Bevin Alexander Hippocrene. 588 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of history, Rutgers; author, 'A [...]

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War READERS WHO pick up this book expecting a sequel to the author's 1975 classic, The Great War and Modern Memory, will [...]