William Tecumseh Sherman might be the most divisive figure of the Civil War. The general who ordered the burning of Atlanta and orchestrated the “March to the Sea” that essentially ended the war has a ...

When their schedules permit, President Obama has lunch with Vice President Biden every week in the West Wing's Private Dining Room, where a painting by George P.A. Healy dominates the west wall. In it ...

Journalist Gabriel Sherman does not insert himself into his own biography of Roger Ailes until after the biography is over. In “A Note on Sources” following the conclusion of The Loudest Voice in the ...

WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN: In the Service of My Country: A Life. By James Lee McDonough. Norton. 721 pages. $39.95. Of the many photographs taken of William Tecumseh Sherman during and after the Civil ...

The phrase “evil genius” is generally applied with either exaggeration or irony; how many people really fall into both categories? The Loudest Voice in the Room, Gabriel Sherman’s enormously ...

Gabriel Sherman is part of a group of young media reporters—many starting out at the New York Observer under the tutelage of then-Editor Peter Kaplan, an avowed media nostalgist—who have seen their ...

William Tecumseh Sherman had a lot in common with Ulysses S. Grant. Like Grant, he was born in Ohio. Like Grant, he graduated from the military academy at West Point. Like Grant, he failed as a ...

Roger Ailes, Fox News Channel president and chairman of Fox Television Stations Group, will most likely not be pleased when Gabriel Sherman’s 560-page book, “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” hits ...

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