History is most clearly observed through the rearview mirror. Leaders can more accurately be judged by the impact of their ...

Surrounded by crowds, President Woodrow Wilson throws out the first ball at a baseball game in Washington in this ... scholarly biography “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn” was 15 years ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...

All this black ink in the Washington, D.C. newspaper was occasioned by the substantial new book by columnist Max Boot, Reagan: His Life and Legend. The reviewer, so peevish about the president ...

Perle Mesta and President Harry S. Truman chat at a reception in Washington in 1949 ... Meryl Gordon’s sympathetic and involving new biography, “The Woman Who Knew Everyone,” rescues ...

The veteran Washington Post reporter ... of his debacle with the tapes.” Former president Carter followed White’s suggestion. Starting with his book of the White House years, “Keeping ...

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president ... personal biography — a Georgia peanut farmer, with a wide grin, from the small town of Plains — seemed like a breath of fresh air against a Washington ...

About half of Americans say it’s a “very” or “somewhat” bad thing for the president to rely on people without any ... instead deferring to interviews he’d conducted for his book “War on Warriors,” ...

congratulates Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat (L) and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin (R) as they shake hands on March 26, 1979 on the north lawn of the White House in Washington DC, after ...

Zelizer recounts in the opening chapter of his biography Jimmy ... Kindred wrote after Washington’s fans held up a banner comparing their lackluster team with the president, and the even-worse ...