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Stephen Budiansky talked about his book, Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas, in which he recounted the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who served on th…

Stephen Budiansky talked about his book, Code Warriors: NSA’s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union, about the Nation Security Agency’s (NSA) intelligence war…

Stephen Budiansky talked about his book, Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, in which he recounts the use of scientific and mathe…

Stephen Budiansky talked about his book, The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox. The author details how from 1865 to 1876 organizations of southern whites opposed to Republican policies a…

Stephen Budiansky talked about his summer reading plans.

Stephen Budiansky talked about his book Her Majesty’s Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage, published by Penguin Group. Sir Walsingham was the f…

Stephen Budiansky read from his book, Air Power: The Men, Machines and Ideas that Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II. He explored the ways that flying machines have had an e…

U.S. News & World Report staff held an editorial meeting to discuss the week’s issue.