THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING On the thread of its history are Caesar , kings, Moors, great wealth, and long influence As he guides visitors past a church dedicated to Our Lady of Grace , Professor Libiano Reis breezily...

In this article: Evora, Alentejo, Bread, Jose Saramago, Julius Caesar, and Lisbon

...defeats, says Toby Harnden , delighting in The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House by Taylor Branch The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch For those hoping for a sober and dispassionate account of the eight-year Clinton...

In this article: Taylor Branch, Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Monica Lewinsky, Tony Blair, White House, Allegation, and Pizza

...reviewing the events of a previous era can help avoid repeating some of the mistakes of that time. In "The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze , George Kennan , and the History of the Cold War,'' Nicholas Thompson tells the story of the Cold War...

In this article: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, John F. Kennedy, National Book Awards, World War II, Wired magazine, and Soviet Union

...a Blu-ray DVD player, was cheaper on the high street and that was at an independent shop. All the other goods, from Calvin Klein perfume, Antony Beevor's latest history book The Battle for Normandy , a DVD of The Boat that Rocks, to Star Wars...

In this article: DVD, Jamie Oliver, Barbie doll, Blu-ray, Antony Beevor, Calvin Klein, Tesco, and Samsung

...Blair, the former head of the Metropolitan Police Service There is a scene in the film Carry On Cleo in which Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar cries out: "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! " You get a similar sense of paranoid...

In this article: Ian Blair, Tories, Boris Johnson, Metropolitan Police Service, Labour, Julius Caesar, David Cameron, and Carry On Cleo

I think what we are seeing with Obama's latest tour is the long-anticipated political reckoning concerning our gargantuan national debt and epic annual deficit spending. If Obama is going to bow, he should do it before the Chinese, who don't...

In this article: Victor Davis Hanson, Coal, and United States

American politics is suffering acutely from the gridlock of entrenched officeholders and election financing controlled by special interests. Over 300 of the 435 congressional districts almost never change partisan hands. Most congressmen...

In this article: U.S., Barack Obama, Conrad Black, Britain, Democracy, Dick Durbin, World War II, Civil War, and United Auto Workers

...the ones doing the hiring." Sadler , who was journalist Hunter S. Thompson's longtime editor and works on books with historian Douglas Brinkley , said she smokes a few times a month, usually with friends. The only difference now, compared...

In this article: Marijuana, California, On the merits, Cannabis, and National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

Normandy veterans attack Antony Beevor D-Day book Scottish World War Two veterans are demanding an apology from one of Britain 's most eminent historians after claiming his new book brands them cowards. In his latest book, ' D-Day - The...

In this article: Normandy, Antony Beevor, and Black Watch

...and Obelix For 50 years, the small but cunning warrior Asterix and his podgy stonemason pal Obelix have been battling the armies of Julius Caesar in their remote village on the Brittany coast the only part of ancient Gaul never conquered...

In this article: Asterix, Albert Uderzo, Rene Goscinny, McDonald's, France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Europe, Obelix, and Happy Meals

In Wilderness Warrior , a new and acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt , author Douglas Brinkley says the former Rough Rider 's crusade for conservation was perhaps the greatest presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War...

In this article: Utah, Ken Salazar, Wilderness Act, Douglas Brinkley, Walt Disney Co., Maurice Hinchey, Rough Rider, and World War II

Recoil: U.S. soldiers fire a howitzer during the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Antony Beevor's new book isn't just about GIs, though; he also covers contributions of soldiers from other countries. British historian Antony Beevor's...

In this article: Antony Beevor, Normandy, Instant coffee, Operation Overlord, World War II, Blood transfusion, Bernard Montgomery, Stalingrad, USA Today, and Paris

...astronaut Buzz Aldrin , who spoke about the moon landing and his battle with personal demons after returning to Earth, and historian Taylor Branch , who spoke about his new book, "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. "

In this article: Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Laura Bush, San Antonio, The Glass Castle, and Buzz Aldrin

...for years, being scrutinised by Peter Wright (for whose book Spycatcher , and work as a conspiracy theorist, Andrew has open contempt) while he sank into alcoholism. Blunt was not finally established as the Fourth Man until 1974; the Fifth,...

In this article: Christopher Andrew, Harold Wilson, Peter Wright, and Roger Hollis

...F. Kennedy Book Award. Brinkley 's latest book is "The Wilderness Warrior," which focuses on the environmental achievements of Theodore Roosevelt. He also wrote the foreword to David A. Taylor's "Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project...

In this article: Douglas Brinkley, Chicago Tribune, Vanity Fair, Rice University, The Great Deluge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Texas

...College, Cambridge, where he rowed. His lifelong nickname was Sue , possibly a reference, from his days at Charterhouse, to the poet Suetonius or to his fondness for suet pudding. By war's end Lewis had become a convinced pacifist, and he...

In this article: Bread, Tax, Boxing Day, Battle of North Cape, Normandy Landings, and Trinity College, Cambridge

The discovery was made during routine maintenance of the fragile Palatine area, officials said. Latin biographer and historian Suetonius , who chronicled his times and wrote the biographies of 12 Roman rulers, refers to a main dining...

In this article: Nero, Rome, Archaeology, Suetonius, All rights reserved, Suicide, and USA Today

...her team discovered part of a circular room which was supported by a pillar with a diameter of more than 13 feet. The Roman historian Suetonius described the unique revolving room in his Lives of the Caesars , written about 60 years after...

In this article: Nero, Archaeology, Suetonius, Rome, Suicide, Lives of the Caesars, British School at Rome, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill