Babe and your scribe met at City School in the appropriately-named biography, “Babe Ruth,” one in a series decked out in ...

NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

In recent years, Leuchtenburg wrote a short, critical biography of FDR’s predecessor, Herbert Hoover, and the 900-page “The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.” ...