‘A Court of One’: Judge Scalia, sociable friend, formidable foe
‘When the United States Spoke French’: Five eminent Frenchmen come to the aid of a young America
Kai Bird’s ‘The Good Spy’: a lost link to peace in the Middle East
‘Little Demon in the City of Light’: a hypnotic murder
‘The Martian’: Stranded on Mars, botanist battles to survive
‘One Summer: America, 1927’: America at a turning point
‘The Bully Pulpit’: a president’s clash with his successor
‘Lawrence in Arabia’: blueprint for disaster in the Middle East
