<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 11–> NEW YORK — A personal assistant-turned-personal manager to Michael Jackson said the King of Pop had been taking propofol as early as 1999, and that the singer was drugged up ahead of his 2001 30th anniversary concerts. Frank Cascio, who became a family friend to Jackson at age 5 and eventually [...]

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“V Is for Vengeance,” by Sue Grafton: (Marian Wood Book/G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 400 pages, $27.95) “V Is for Vengeance,” and it’s also for very, very good. With just a few letters remaining in Sue Grafton’s alphabet series of mysteries, the author has hit a high mark with this complex story of love, betrayal, ambition and, [...]

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<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 10–> At the time of these conversations, she still was grieving, of course — though there is little about the assassination other than references to JFK’s death and “Dallas.” She is also young, very much a product of the 1950s and early 1960s, a time when she unabashedly could say that she [...]

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In the year 1865, a small book entitled A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison was published. It was written by Paul Jennings, who was born on James Madison’s plantation, Montpelier, Virginia, in the year 1799. As you might have guessed, he was the son of slaves. But, at his death, he was a free [...]

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We get it already: Michael Jackson was kind of a weird dude. In the weeks, months and now years since the music icon’s death, news consumers across the globe have been inundated with examinations of Jackson’s life. And frankly, too much of it has focused on the sensational aspects of his 50 years on Earth. [...]

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