Pulitzer-winning historian Burns gives a brisk, readable tour of the history of the appointment of Supreme Court justices since 1789. In this respect, the book is fresh and compelling. But Burns ...

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Editor’s note: Sean McHugh, an Eagle columnist, is the grandson of historian, political scientist and presidential biographer James MacGregor Burns. Burns died Tuesday at age 95. My grandfather died ...

James MacGregor Burns was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose explorations of leadership, specifically presidential leadership, resonate today. His wide renown as an author and intellectual aside ...

Historian and political scientist James MacGregor Burns has died at the age of 95. “Always felt that a contentious conversation about politics was good thing to have, not something to avoid,” Stewart ...

James MacGregor Burns was a Massachusetts man for much of his 95 years. He was born in Melrose and died in Williamstown. His death was announced Tuesday. His name might not be well-known, but plenty ...

James MacGregor Burns, one of the country’s preeminent political historians, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1970 study of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was instrumental in developing the ...