POLITICS

One of the more curiously inapt proverbs, especially as it applies to politics, is the idea that, while success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan. We know, in fact, from the thousands of accounts that pour forth after every presidential election, that the paternity of electoral defeat in particular is litigated over as

Chuck Schumer can’t catch a break. Not long after being sworn in as the first Jewish leader of the U.S. Senate, the Democratic Party came down with a bad case of anti-Semitism. It inspired him to write a book, Antisemitism in America: A Warning, in which he recounts how John F. Kennedy’s assassination really dampened the

You might say that Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter, is a book about Chartwell, a house in the lovely Kentish Weald, just 24 miles southeast of the Houses of Parliament in Westminster. You might also say that it is a book about Winston Churchill himself, who fell in love with the ramshackle Henry VIII-period pile