By Leon Neyfakh 11/08/07 9:38pm

Historian Beschloss Leaves Simon & Schuster for Crown

Bestselling presidential historian Michael Beschloss, most recently the author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How they Changed America, has left Simon & Schuster to sign a deal with Crown, a division of Random House, according to several publishing sources.

Mr. Beschloss’ last book for Simon & Schuster was edited by Michael Korda, who Read More

By Michael M. Thomas 4/16/01 12:00am

The Smart Money Ignores The Times ‘ Puffy Op-Ed Page

In Hollywood, the screenwriter William Goldman has notoriously remarked, nobody knows anything.

Another venue about which the same might with increasing justice be said is the Op-Ed page of The New York Times , especially when it comes to economic matters.

In a way, this is both understandable and inescapable. The Op-Ed page has Read More