The volume is a welcome and valuable addition to American biography. If not in the columns of the Atlantic, where else, by the way, should it be asked why the Letters of Lanier, edited by Mr. W. R.

A dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of U.S. and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold ...

"Conceived as the successor to the Dictionary of American biography, first published between 1926 and 1937"--Vol. 1, p. xvii. "Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies ...

Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," about the North American neighbors of the United States. Well, there's no biography ...