Thomas Powers

Ex-President Trump, Security Threat?

The Fog of Ambition

‘Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century’ by George Packer

The War Without End

The Nuclear Worrier

Daniel Ellsberg’s ‘The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner’

Down the Path of Obsession

The first navigation of the Amazon River by a European in 1541 may properly be described as an accident. One later chronicle of the journey, in the early twentieth century, has been made into a film based on a book: The Lost City of Z.

The Big Thing on His Mind

Remembering Bob Silvers

On the late editor of The New York Review

Lise Meitner Explained Fission

The Private Heisenberg

His letters potentially cast the history of the German bomb in a very different light.

Girls and Indians

Garrett Price (1895-1979) is best known for the hundreds of cartoons and a hundred covers he drew for The New Yorker, but his long-forgotten strip White Boy, a Sunday comic built around girls and Indians, has now been republished in its entirety.

The Charms of George Armstrong Custer

A Tale of Woe and Glory

‘The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky’

The American Hero

Texas: The Southern Baptists in Power

The World from the Other Side

The Book of Little Bighorn

The warring life of the Northern Plains tribes that resisted white invasion in the 1860s is the subject of A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn: The Pictographic “Autobiography of Half Moon.”

Did Petraeus Make a Difference?

Warrior Petraeus

The Weird Truth About Texas

Why Like Ike?