Charles Trueheart

Charles Trueheart's Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict recently won the Douglas Dillon Award for the most distinguished book of the year on American diplomacy. He is a Scholar contributing editor and a former Washington Post correspondent in Paris.

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 2, 2024

Head of the State

How the FBI’s founding director ruled from the shadows

By Charles Trueheart | Thursday December 1, 2022

Making the List

Finding the right page required centuries of experiment

By Charles Trueheart | Monday March 21, 2022

Visible Man

A writer whose early speculative fiction made him famous

By Charles Trueheart | Monday November 15, 2021

Things Left Behind

A writer’s one-sided conversation with a ghost

By Charles Trueheart | Monday May 17, 2021

Family Secrets

A writer’s personal quest to expose a mass murderer who escaped punishment

By Charles Trueheart | Monday February 1, 2021

La Havilland

The movie star became a fixture in Paris, where she lived for half her lifetime

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020

Creeping Illiberalism

A bleak account of the West’s slide toward tyranny

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020
A man in a suit with a red tie and sunglasses stands next to two soldiers in U.S. uniform. They are filmed by a third man.

The Difficult Diplomat

A highly flawed man who brought peace and controversy

By Charles Trueheart | Monday June 3, 2019

Bungle in the Jungle

A new biography considers what might have been in Indochina

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 4, 2017

Barbarity at the Bataclan

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 2, 2024

Head of the State

By Charles Trueheart | Thursday December 1, 2022

Making the List

By Charles Trueheart | Monday March 21, 2022

Visible Man

By Charles Trueheart | Monday November 15, 2021

Things Left Behind

By Charles Trueheart | Monday May 17, 2021

Family Secrets

By Charles Trueheart | Monday February 1, 2021

La Havilland

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020

Creeping Illiberalism

By Charles Trueheart | Monday July 27, 2020
A man in a suit with a red tie and sunglasses stands next to two soldiers in U.S. uniform. They are filmed by a third man.

The Difficult Diplomat

By Charles Trueheart | Monday June 3, 2019

Bungle in the Jungle

By Charles Trueheart | Monday December 4, 2017

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