Walter Stahr, after a twenty-five year career as a lawyer, has turned to writing biographies of American leaders. He is the author of John Jay: Founding Father and Seward: Lincoln’s Indispensable Man. He is now working on his third book, a biography of Edwin McMasters Stanton. Mr. Stahr and his family divide their time between southern New Hampshire (his wife teaches at the Phillips Exeter Academy) and southern California.
11 entries by Walter Stahr
A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis that Spurred the American Revolution
By Andrew Lawler
An imperfect account of revolutionary Virginia.
An intelligent account of a little-known political battle in the years leading up to the Civil War
Tony Horwitz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the author of seven books, including, most recently, the e-book Boom: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever.
Wilson
A. Scott Berg
The author's biography praises the 28th president, but does it question and clarify Wilson's legacy?
Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877
Brenda Wineapple
An ambitious look at three critical decades in US history.
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to the Falklands
Charles Moore
A complex and nuanced portrait of the former prime minister.
Some new revelations add spice to this full-bodied account of one of the greatest Americans of his time.
If one wanted to observe the death of one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century by reading a book, or two, about Margaret Thatcher, where would one begin? Here are some suggestions.
