Book Review: Lincoln's Autocrat
/President Lincoln's mercurial Secretary of War Edwin Stanton gets a full-dress biography that would have gladdened the heart of anybody who ever wanted to hit him with a shovel
Read MoreFaith-Based Initiative
/In his new book City of Rivals, James Grumet takes a gloomy close-up look at America's deeply dysfunctional Congress and offers some solutions. But are those solutions dysfunctional too?
Read MoreBook Review: Embattled Rebel
/Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, gets a new biography by the popular Civil War historian James McPherson
Read MoreBook Review: Rise to Greatness
/"It was the year in which the Civil War became a cataclysm, the federal government became a colossus, and the Confederacy came nearest to winning its independence ..."
Read MoreBook Review: Terrible Swift Sword
/An engaging - perhaps a touch too engaging - new biography of fourth four-star general in U.S. history: Phil Sheridan
Read MoreThe Civil War: A Narrative
/Shelby Foote's massive three-volume military history of the Civil War is re-issued for the 150th anniversary of the war's beginning.
Read MoreThe Western Star
/More than any other figure in American history (including his hated rival Andrew Jackson), Henry Clay towered over the political landscape in the decades before the Civil War; two new books look at his legacy.
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