From memoirs to biographies, here are the best books to about what it's really like to be the most famous woman in America.

Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1997 ... Terenzio and Carole Radziwill — confirmed that she wore the shade in their books, “JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography” and “What Remains.” ...

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

By Peter Baker While new books on presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan ... full-scale biography of Carter did not come out until four years ago, when the ...

According to Elizabeth Beller’s 2024 biography, Bessette-Kennedy liked to wear her loafers with leggings and a white or black T-shirt. She owned pairs by Manolo Blahnik and Prada, but more affordable ...

A young John F ... Kennedy knew little of Ireland and in studying his constituency previous to the actual campaign, he found his lack of knowledge something of a handicap and asked me for a list ...

Mark Lamster on recent monographs on Mies van der Rohe, Paulo Mendes da Rocha and Architecture Research Office.

An 11th-century warlord who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers left behind a reputation that expanded into myth.

In his Collected Poems, his verse becomes an index for a life lived between ambition, pain, and disappointment.

as John F. Kennedy did of “El Cid” (1961). As Nora Berend tells us in her own “El Cid,” a biography of the man she calls a “medieval mercenary,” a person who was notably instrumental ...

A Personal History of the 1960s" centers on the unique history found by going through her and her husband Dick Goodwin’s ...

As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her ...