Or how I helped make Fritz Hollings what he is today.

In "The Butter Battle Book" the children's author takes on the Cold War.

Shultz is a repairman, but we need a strategist.

A conversation with Toni Morrison.

A review of "The Wiz" starring Diana Ross

A rereading of Gabriel García Márquez's famous book.

Documenting Santa Clara's 1975 plan to keep the sun a public resource

On a new edition of Betty Friedan's feminist classic.

What it's like to meet Lyndon B. Johnson

Hunter S. Thompson’s book is in the zonked, road-writing tradition of Jack Kerouac, but it lacks Kerouac’s bleeding feelings.

The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battle between police and protesters.

A review of "2001: A Space Odyssey"

A new kind of labor war in California