For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Tim Stanley

From the November 2018 Issue

Powerful Traits of Successful Leaders

Leadership: Lessons from the Presidents for Turbulent Times

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

From the October 2018 Issue

Yours, Mr President

To Obama: With Love, Joy, Hate, and Despair

By Jeanne Marie Laskas

From the April 2018 Issue

A Valediction to Power

LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval

By Kyle Longley

From the March 2018 Issue

Jokester-in-Chief

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor

By Richard Carwardine

From the December 2017 Issue

Tricky Questions

Richard Nixon: The Life

By John A Farrell

From the August 2017 Issue

Willing Accomplice?

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

By Jeffrey Toobin

From the April 2017 Issue

There Will Be Blood

Killers of the Flower Moon

By David Grann

From the October 2016 Issue

Faith Off

Conclave

By Robert Harris

From the September 2016 Issue

With Flying Colours

The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire

By Karl Jacoby

From the May 2016 Issue

Man of the Soil

The Life and Times of George McGovern: The Rise of a Prairie Statesman

By Thomas J Knock

From the March 2016 Issue

Lives of Others

History’s People: Personalities and the Past

By Margaret MacMillan

From the February 2016 Issue

Sworn In, Worn Out

The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

By William E Leuchtenburg

From the December 2015 Issue

Natural Leader

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

By Michael R Canfield

From the November 2015 Issue

The Right Stuff

Selling Ronald Reagan: The Emergence of a President

By Gerard DeGroot

From the July 2015 Issue

The Odd Couple

Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship that Shaped the Sixties

By Kevin M Schultz

From the May 2015 Issue

Born to Rule

A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir

By William Waldegrave

From the April 2015 Issue

Escape from Neutrality

The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II

By Nicholas Wapshott