The 1970s introduced an array of new stories with hit miniseries such as Roots, King, and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Which is the best one?

In one letter quoted in the book, dated March 5, 1933, the day after her husband’s first inauguration, Roosevelt writes: “Hick my dearest, I cannot go to bed to-night without a word to you.

Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt had essentially agreed to have a loveless marriage, a kind of partnership. What happened early on, when she was pregnant with one of their children, was that ...

These 24 books present a wide array of perspectives on the role of First Lady—from memoirs by Julia Grant, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Michelle Obama, to biographies on Jackie Kennedy, Barbara Bush ...

Kate Quinn has excelled in previous novels at transforming real-life historical biography into page-turning fiction. With “The Diamond Eye,” she works her magic with the true story of Lyudmila ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One: 1884-1933 by Blanche Wiesen Cook, Viking, $27.50, 500 pp. On the very first page of her exciting new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook hoists the fe… ...

On the morning of Aug. 11, 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt got out of bed and tried to make it to the bathroom in the summer house on Campobello Island, off the coast of Maine, where he and his family ...

But the two ultimately decided to remain married, in part because his mother threatened to disown him, according to a 2016 biography of Mrs. Roosevelt.

One entry, from the day in 1945 when Roosevelt died, is revealing: “Poor (Eleanor Roosevelt): I believe she loved him more deeply than she knows herself, and his feelings for her were deep ...

Two days after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s inauguration as the 32nd president of the US in March 1933, the new First Lady held her first White House press conference for women reporters only. This ...