For all the books written about FDR, there's room on the shelf for a great one-volume life that does full justice to who he was, what he overcame and what he achieved. This one isn't it, though it's ...

The most critically acclaimed biography published so far this year is "Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage" (Free Press, $30). Douglas Waller, a former ...

In the skillful writing of biographer Nigel Hamilton, history is a living thing, something you can see and hear, reach out and touch. History has an immediacy for him that has come to life in more ...

(“FDR” by Jean Edward Smith, Random House, 858 pages, $35). In January 1943, after meeting with Franklin Roosevelt at Casablanca on the African coast to plot future military operations during the ...

FDR is more relevant now than ever, with the economic and international challenges America faces and a liberal Democrat in the White House, so any new biography of the most consequential 20th century ...

On the morning of March 4, 1933 an air of tense expectancy pervaded America. The country was experiencing its worst year yet of the Depression, the nation's banks had been closed, and most Americans ...

"The Woman Behind the New Deal" (Doubleday, 398 pages, $35), by Kirstin Downey: Reading the biography of FDR's labor secretary, Frances Perkins, brings to mind the old saying about how Ginger Rogers ...