In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs’ daughter writes of being on the outside looking in
Lisa Brennan-Jobs paints a rich portrait of her childhood, alternating between a mother barely able to support herself and a father almost pathologically distant. It’s...
‘American Heiress’: the long, strange trip of Patty Hearst | Book review
In “American Heiress,” Jeffrey Toobin revives the story of Patty Hearst for a new audience, using previously unreleased material to chronicle her odyssey from sheltered...
Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘Valiant Ambition’: How betrayal helped win the Revolutionary War | Book review
Nathaniel Philbrick’s gripping new work, “Valiant Ambition,” tells how, after years of bickering by Congress and the states, the Revolutionary cause was finally galvanized and...
A character study of Thomas Jefferson as ‘patriarch’ | Book review
In “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs,” historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf create a character study of Thomas Jefferson, attempting to explain our third...
‘While the City Slept’: must-read accounting of a terrible crime | Book review
Seattle writer Eli Sanders’ “While the City Slept” indicts a mental-health system that failed to prevent two Seattle women from assault, rape and murder by...
‘Destiny and Power’: the life and times of George H.W. Bush | Book review
“Destiny and Power,” Jon Meacham’s biography of George H.W. Bush, is the compelling history of a man at the center of 20th century events, but...