Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...

Kevin Sack, who shared in three Pulitzer Prizes for the New York Times, spent 10 years researching and writing about Mother ...

This scrupulously reported book traces how one of the world’s largest companies “bound its future” to China. By 2015, Apple ...

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The critic J. Hoberman’s take on Manhattan counterculture charts the rise of artists such as Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono ...

Recalling nickel antes and trash talk with the feminist figure, Against Our Will author, and poker fiend who recently died at 90.

New books examine how the Biden administration handled the delicate subject of age—but not how the press covered the story.

The historian shows off the most precious volumes in his collection — including a library book that has been overdue for at least 50 years. NEW YORK — The totality of Robert Caro’s literary ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Caro's first book, The Power Broker. It told the story of how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York City and state through the roads and bridges he ...

Historian Robert Caro's book "The Power Broker" details how urban planner Robert Moses reshaped New York through the roads and bridges he built, and the lives of the communities he destroyed.