Is there anything new to say about Cary Grant? Not much, to judge by Marc Eliot's agreeable book, which cites no less than seven previous biographies and quotes copiously from almost everyone who's ...

Ron Chernow, the historian whose award-winning biography of Alexander Hamilton was the basis of the hit Broadway musical, is back with his seventh book, "Grant" (Penguin). It chronicles the life of ...

In 1999, The American Film Institute named Cary Grant the second greatest male screen legend in U.S. movie history, with only Humphrey Bogart topping him. During his lifetime he was already iconic ...

The picture painted by Brooks Simpson in his recent biography of "Ulysses S. Grant: Triumph Over Adversity, 1822-1865," illuminates a man as complex and contradictory as we might ever puzzle over.

You should read Ron Chernow's new biography of President Ulysses S. Grant. It will be a pleasurable and instructive month-long effort. It will even help in understanding the awful mess we've made of ...

It's probably inevitable that a biography of Cary Grant is going to produce at least some small degree of disillusionment. Throughout his lifetime, Grant tried, if not always successfully, to keep his ...

American Ulysses. A new look at the extraordinary life of President Ulysses S. Grant. A portion of the cover of "American Ulysses" by Ronald White. (Courtesy Random House) At nearly 40, Ulysses S.