The first years of the millennium have become, for interesting reasons, a golden age of popular political biography. The young British writer Simon Sebag Montefiore has just produced Stalin: The Court ...

Plutarch’s portrayal of parallel lives is the paradigm James Grant pursues in his dynamic dual biography of Edmund Burke and Charles Fox, two politicians and orators of markedly different ...

Plutarch, a revered ancient Greek writer and philosopher, is celebrated for his "Parallel Lives" and "Moralia." His biographical comparisons of Greek and Roman figures emphasized character and ...

Thucydides has been enjoying quite the media moment, despite being dead for more than 2,400 years. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and national security adviser H.R. McMaster have both been known to cite ...

Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World (Bloomsbury) by Yepoka Yeebo has won the 2024 Plutarch Award, which honors for the best biography published in ...