The new biography by Molly Beer explores Schuyler's life and relies heavily on letters written by, to and about her.

John Hancock was once one of the wealthiest merchants in New England and among the most popular and well-respected figures of ...

A landmark biography shows the storied conservative leader walking intellectual, journalistic, and financial tightropes.

In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

Miranda was inspired to create the musical after reading Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton, which won the George Washington Book Prize. In 2011, Chernow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ...

Author Ron Chernow, who has penned numerous biographies on historic Americans, spoke at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home and ...

George R.R. Martin used to work on a historical horror novel before he created his best-selling franchise A Song of Ice and Fire.

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

‘Buckley’ is the richest account yet of an enthralling and maddening conservative icon Sam Tanenhaus’s long-awaited biography captures William F. Buckley Jr. and the political movement that ...

Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads “Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock” starts with ...