As the powers and responsibilities of U.S. presidents have grown, unofficial and personal advisers have come to play a larger role in national life. Edward House, an honorary colonel long active in ...

Edward M. House has been the subject of numerous attempts to understand his close political friendship with President Woodrow Wilson, beginning in 1918 with journalist Arthur D. Howden Smith’s ...

Godfrey Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson's Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M. House, 2006. Inga Floto, Colonel House in Paris: A study of American policy at the Paris Peace Conference 1919 , 1973 ...

Across Glenwood Cemetery from Howard Hughes' final resting place lies the grave of another rich Houstonian, a man far less flamboyant and today far more obscure. But in his day, Col. Edward M ...

COLONEL HOUSE: A BIOGRAPHY OF WOODROW WILSON’S SILENT PARTNER By Charles E. Neu Oxford University Press, $34.95, 720 pages When it comes to presidents, the brightest are not necessarily the best ...