In ‘The Devil’s Defender,’ Barefoot Bandit attorney looks back on his career

‘Good Vibrations’: Beach Boy Mike Love unloads in a contentious memoir

‘American Heiress’: the long, strange trip of Patty Hearst

Nathaniel Philbrick’s ‘Valiant Ambition’: How betrayal helped win the Revolutionary War

A character study of Thomas Jefferson as ‘patriarch’

‘While the City Slept’: must-read accounting of a terrible crime