Sharp business skills ensured the first president’s phenomenal success.
Suppose they could go on "Meet The Press"...
Six aspects of the man - three personal and three political - hint at how posterity will view him.
The French helped us win our revolution. A few years later, we were at war with Napoleon’s navy. The two countries have been falling in and out of love ever since. Why?
Richard Brookhiser has spent four years trying to capture for the television screen the character of one of the greatest Americans.
Smarter than stupid, of course, but does the intellectual tradition that began with the century suggest that there's such a thing as being too smart for the country’s good?
Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.
King George lost us; Princess Di won us back. Certain changes made this possible.