A riveting portrait of friendship, politics, and power at the highest stakes: the extraordinary bond between Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. One was the soldier-statesman who would become America’s thirty-fourth president. The other was the British icon who refused to surrender in democracy’s darkest hour. Together they launched invasions, toppled tyrants, and shaped the world […]

The Cars formed in the late 1970s as an alliance of five journeymen musicians with roots in Maryland, Ohio, New York, and New England. They had each performed in a series of bands before finding one another, along with the right sound at the right time. That sound, soon fortified by their iconic imagery, turned […]

A Memoir of survival inside Thailand’s brutal prison system. “Fourteen years.” I didn’t understand the language the judge was speaking. I understood the number. That was the moment my old life ended. For the next several years, I fought to survive inside Thailand’s most notorious prisons. I lived in overcrowded cells where hundreds of prisoners […]