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Fate and Fame: History’s Who’s Who (and Why)
Historian Andrew Roberts examines Churchill's description of becoming prime minister in May 1940: "I felt as if I were walking with destiny and that all my past life had been...
What qualities make a good leader?
Leonardo da Vinci's boundless curiosity renders him perhaps the greatest creative genius.
Madison's legacy matters today more than ever. As founding genius he made the Constitution to avoid faction. Then he discovered the real world required parties -- so he founde...
Louis Brandeis was the greatest critic of big business and big government since Thomas Jefferson. Jeff Rosen and Jeffrey Goldberg postulate about Brandeis’s relevance for the...
What can we learn from Albert Einstein's creativity?
Author Evan Thomas on the complex and confounding President Nixon.
The author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" explores Jefferson's complicated legacy and suggests how we might reclaim the Jeffersoni...