Few lives in American history can match the dramatic trajectory of the New England frontiersman Robert Rogers. His bold leadership of a corps of “rangers” during the French and Indian War, when he was ...

ROBERT ROGERS OF THE RANGERS (299 pp.)—John R. Cuneo—Oxford ($6). When TV next manages to turn a folk hero into a public nuisance, by marinating his name in an indelible jingle and spreading his face, ...

Hailed as the father of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers was North America's first authentic celebrity. Biographer John F. Ross reconstructs the extraordinary achievements of this fearless ...