Seward

The men who killed Lincoln also made a bloody attempt on the life of his Secretary of State, William H. Seward. Walter Stahr's new book reveals how this savvy politician -- one of the key figures who held the Union together during the Civil War -- survived to carry on the great president's work.

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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