John J Corry

As historian James McPherson has written in endorsing this book: "The first political confrontation between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas occurred not in the famous debates of 1858" but four years earlier. This book is the first complete account of those 1854 debates. As that year dawned, L...

A veteran reporter recounts his experiences at The New York Times, discussing Greece under the junta, on the trail of tortured political prisoners, and Cuba, and offers anecdotes about the fabled William Morris and others.

Just as essential to Theodore Roosevelt's accession to the Presidency as his charge up San Juan Hill was his election as Governor of New York four months later. A defeat would have seriously set back and perhaps even destroyed his chances to gain the White House. Yet, until A Rough Ride to Albany, n...

1898 was the year in which the United States first became a world power. In a decisive victory in a war with Spain lasting less than four months, it acquired territories in the Caribbean and Pacific, and positioned itself so that the Twentieth Century became to many "The American Century." This was ...

.the story of Manchester's difficulties with Mrs. John F. Kennedy and her brother-in-law, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, ... in intricate, complicated situation that kept the public wondering and guessing -- is reported here in full detail and in the liveliest manner, making it literally as exciting as ...

On February 27, 1860, at New York's Cooper Union, an awkward Illinois lawyer politician in a rumpled poorly-fitting suit delivered a "political lecture" to a curious audience of the city's political and cultural elite. In less than three months, the Repu