Charles Trueheart

Charles Trueheart is a Scholar contributing editor and former director of the American Library in Paris. His book about Vietnam in the Kennedy years, Diplomats at War, is forthcoming.

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

Cruel Spring

A dark time in the city of light

By Charles Trueheart | Wednesday December 10, 2014

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

Cruel Spring

By Charles Trueheart | Wednesday December 10, 2014

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