This month, pile your nightstand with buzzy literary fiction, a memoir by Bill Gates, a dive into the authors that inspired Jane Austen, and so much more. Here are T&C ’s picks for the best books of ...

Trump says America was at its richest in the late 1800s. Here are the facts. The president recently said: 'We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country.' As President ...

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No matter how many times she was counted out, the late singer knew how to imbue her mythology with new energy.

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As Robert Merry explains in his biography, William McKinley ... Trump likes the idea of a Second Gilded Age, perhaps because he himself is gilded: showy on the outside, empty on the inside.

Explore Mark Twain's greatest books, from timeless adventures to sharp wit and humor. Discover the classics that shaped American literature.

Belle da Costa Greene, who was JP Morgan’s librarian, became a lively fixture at Gilded Age mansions, country retreats, ...

Gage, the author of a biography of J. Edgar Hoover ... “All of this strikes me as being a kind of late-19th-century Gilded Age politics,” she said, adding: “All of those, I think, are ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” -- celebrate the singer-songwriter and Kennedy Center honoree ...

Her world encompassed Gilded Age mansions, country retreats ... revealed the identities of Greene’s parents in her 1999 biography, “Morgan: American Financier.” Until that point, only ...