The recent death of former President Jimmy Carter got me thinking about what prolific writers our presidents have been. Every chief executive since Herbert Hoover (the 31st U.S. president) has a presi ...

You don’t have to be in medicine to start buying historical medical texts, though it probably makes building a library that much sweeter. Renowned cerebrovascular neurosurgeon Dr. Eugene Flamm has ...

Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.

What do posters, buttons, china, mugs, carvings, figurines and a wide variety of other collectibles tell us about the late, great statesman? Actually quite a lot.

The maintenance at the magnificent Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire is set to take up to two months. It is being carried out ...

It appears that the visitors' book was introduced by Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath, who lived in Number 10 between ...

He’s currently reading Ottawa Book Award-winner Sandra Ridley’s poetry collection Vixen ... His reading of the Churchill biography, for example, led him to a biography of Napoleon, as well ...

Here are the most exciting books we're most looking forward to sharing in 2025 Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

There Churchill wrote books, played with his children, painted, laid brick, dug ponds and talked to his pigs. Most vitally—as Ms. Carter shows throughout “Churchill’s Citadel”—it was ...

At his country estate in Chartwell, Churchill gathered the voices who were beginning to warn the world about the rise of ...

Rod Taylor, the Australian movie star who appeared opposite John Wayne, Tippi Hedren, Doris Day, Jane Fonda and Elizabeth Taylor, died in 2015. He was 84.