Books of The Times: There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age
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Scandals in Washington come and go, but Teapot Dome remains one of the real humdingers: a Jazz Age affair in which a handful of oil tycoons and corrupt government officials nearly managed to make away with a hefty percentage of the nationâs petroleum reserves.
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Arts & entertainment: Guardian Books poll into era-defining books finds that paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century.
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Given how careful we are today about all things financial itâs striking that people appear to have been more frank about money 200 years ago.
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693-page dossier that caused panic in the Ford White House covers 1950s to early 70s.
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The Seattle Symphony Orchestraâs recent history serves as a cautionary tale on how, in an artistic hothouse, a tangle of emotion and politics can veer out of control and take on a life of its own.
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For a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library.
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read: `Edie: Girl on Fire,' by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, Chronicle Books, $50.  Before there was Paris Hilton, there was Edie - socialite, model, actress and embodiment of 1960s glittering excess.
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Arabian ''chick-lit'' shines a light on a central hypocrisy in the conservative Kingdom.
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Twenty five years after it was  published, &quot;In Search of Excellence&quot; is one of the most widely  read business books ever, but its value and the value of its  successors may lie purely in its anecdotes.
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Alan Greenspan chose the perfect moment to release his memoirs: the day before a high-stakes Federal Reserve policy meeting in the middle of a financial market crisis. Even the title of his book, The Age of Turbulence, looks uncannily - if not uncharacteristically - prescient.
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There's a reason Philip Roth's new novel is charging up the best-seller list: the story, set from 1940-1942, is on its face linked to the wartime of 2001-2004.
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A spate of circulation scandals could lead to tougher rules for the entire newspaper industry in the coming weeks. The Audit Bureau of Circulations, which is responsible
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IT&#39;S a risky business to predict the decline of the American empire. Ask Paul Kennedy, the Yale historian, who issued such a forecast in his 1987 book, &quot;The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,&quot; only
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Britain's political establishment has never been short of political scandal. While the latest tale to grip London's political and media circles lacks the titillating, sometimes bizarre, features of other public ...
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New York (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Like an oil slick in the sea, the scandal related to the Oil-for-food (OFF) programme is getting bigger and bigger.
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Conrad Blackâs rise and fall was marked by charm, indignation and opportunism.
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Who gets to the top of the corporate greasy pole -- and how that has changed over the past century -- is the subject of a fascinating book, "Paths to Power."