Rare is the nonfiction work that can be described as gripping, but King of Kings by Scott Anderson, more than 400 pages though it is, earns the accolade. Of course, it is not practicable to stay glued ...

For over 40 years, Scott Anderson has been one of America’s most incisive foreign correspondents, filing dispatches from trouble spots around the world with a novelist’s eye and a talent for ...

Strange to think, but there was a time when the United States’ most steadfast ally in the Middle East was Iran. In 1953, the C.I.A. had backed a coup that ousted Mohammad Mossadegh, the popular Prime ...