Every great action hero has their own epic catchphrase, and I firmly believe that Die Hard ’s John McClane, played by Bruce ...

Lay never used the word—it was largely an epithet—but he was deeply antinomian. This was the wellspring of his radicalism. The earliest record of Lay’s active participation in organized ...

Not one shot had been fired in the Bourbons’ defense. “Never before in history,” said Parisian wags, “has an emperor won an empire simply by showing his hat.” (Napoleon’s bicorn hat ...