The biographer tempts the reader to imagine: This life could have been mine.

Thomas Jefferson was the closest thing to a philosopher-king we have ever had in the United States Jon Meacham rsquo s eminently readable and balanced new biography aims to recover the ldquo mortal Jefferson rdquo both philosopher and politician who blended the two roles in a way that reveals s

The most crucial swing vote in the 2012 election may have been cast by the late Rachel Carson.

No one in 20th-century church history has attracted more controversy than Eugenio Pacelli.

Each invention and new research into technological possibilities has its own story and we can now add to the best of them the latest and probably most compelling one of our time It is told in the book The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner a history of the Bell Telephone Laboratories mdash or Bell Labs

Peter Brown looks religious giving in early Christian society.