The veteran journalist reviews the current US presidency, in all its baffling volatility, basing himself on several exclusive interviews and a wealth of documentary evidence.
Following on from his The Prime Ministers, here is a series of essays on all 46 presidents of the USA by various academics, journalists, politicians and historians.
Not just bar-room belles and pioneers wearing thin the soles of their boots on their immense journeys to the west, but Chinese laundresses and displaced native Americans too. Real stories, w... read more
A survey of this pioneering and serene colourist (1885-1965), who eschewed '-isms' and quietly got on with his work - much of it plein air. Early impressionistic impastos quickly give way to... read more
Madison quietly set about creating a revolution in vegetarian cooking at Greens restaurant in San Francisco; she'd also done time at Chez Panisse. First published in 1987, this excellent boo... read more
A lively account of the origins of the American Dream - an idea which Moore traces back across the Atlantic to the intellectual and political bustling of Enlightenment Britain.
Published last year in the US, this account of the rich in mid-C20th New York, and Capote's multiple betrayals of friendships, is both fascinating and shocking.
Johan Jakob Astor left Germany for a flute-making business in London in the late C18th, and then moved to New York where he dealt in pianos, opium, furs and real estate: what glistered was i... read more
The stunning new installation of the Frick's collection of Old Masters etc in Marcel Breuer's Brutalist bulding a few blocks away from its usual home, now in the process of restoration. Beau... read more
Joseph Seligman arrived in the US with $100 sewn into the lining of his clothes; the Lehman brothers followed; then Marcus Goldman and the 'forty-eighters' fleeing European anti-semitism. A ... read more
Architecture, landscape, collections, books, food and wine - with contributions by Jon Meacham, Alice Waters, Jay McInerney, Annette Gordon-Reed, Xavier Salomon and others.
A portrait of the utopia created by Eugene O'Neill, de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropius and many others.