Cyril R. Mill

Balance of Power: Presidents and Congress from the Era of McCarthy to the Age of Gingrich. By Jim Wright, former Speaker of the House. Turner Publishing, $25.95. There is a difference between a political scholar and a practitioner. A scholar collec [...]

William Morris, A Life for Our Time. By Fiona MacCarthy. Knopf. $45.00. MacCarthy states at the outset what she intends to do in a biography of one who has already inspired other, similar efforts. She wanted to capture his multifaceted personality [...]