NEW YORK — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government deceit about the...
NEW YORK — Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live...
NEW YORK — Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who during 60 years in baseball won two World Series titles with the St....
NEW YORK — In the summer of 1969, dreams of a new society played out in muddy wonder at the Woodstock music festival and in murderous parody during...
NEW YORK — The clarity and the command. The daring and the discipline. The thrill of her voice and the truth of her emotions.Like the best actors...
NEW YORK — Richard N. Goodwin, an aide, speechwriter and liberal force for the Kennedys and Lyndon Johnson who helped craft such historic...
NEW YORK — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the...
For book readers in 2017, the choice was often between imagining the worst, hoping for the best or escaping entirely.The most widely read works of...
Richard Wilbur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator who intrigued and delighted generations of readers and theatergoers through his...
Tom Petty, an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds, the Beatles and other bands he worshipped as a boy and produced...
NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened” had a big debut.Clinton’s book about her stunning loss in 2016 to Donald Trump sold more than 300,000...
NEW YORK — Behind so many great rock bands and rock songs looms the music of Chuck Berry.Like the time a teenage Keith Richards ran into a...