Journalist Leamer (The Kennedy Women) provides a stirring narrative of the Kennedy men but comes up short as regards analysis of the byzantine motivations, complex psychology and persistent moral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wharton came from an aristocratic New York family. She wrote a series of brilliant novels exposing the hypocrisy and deceit of the ...

Antioch College was a liberal-arts college — liberal, period — when Laurence Leamer went there in 1960. John F. Kennedy was running for president, “but they didn’t think he was liberal enough,” Leamer ...

Leamer’s latest novel takes a satirical look at the election process in the United States. The tale is narrated by Billy Baxter, the butler of one of the presidential candidates, Vincent V. Victor, a ...

"When Lee and Truman [Capote] had lunch the first time, there she is talking about her obsession with Jackie," author Laurence Leamer tells PEOPLE Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Jacqueline ...

Best known locally for his controversial bestseller Madness Under the Royal Palms, about Palm Beach society’s lives of gilded desperation, author Laurence Leamer is back with another compelling read.