As the author of two well-received biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Are You A Jackie or A Marilyn? and Jackie Style), I watched the development of the History Channel's Kennedy miniseries, and its subsequent hand off to something called the Reelz channel, with great interest. From the outside, having not...

In the old days -- say, fifteen or even twenty years ago -- there were three options to get a hold of someone, and let them know what was going on in your life. The telephone (wildly expensive for anything other than local calls, plus, there was generally one...