The Portuguese statesman Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, Marquês de Pombal (1699-1782), one of the most important men in the history of Portugal, became virtual dictator of his country during the reign of King Joseph I. He used...

BALTIMORE - OK, so Marquis Grissom probably won't go down in history with Carlton Fisk, Bill Mazeroski, Joe Carter and other heroes who delivered memorable missiles of October. After all, this is only the American League Championship Series, not the World Series....

Kenneth Maxwell Cambridge University Press xvii + 200 pp. 30 [pounds sterling] Eighteenth-century Portugal has often seemed irredeemably sunk in superstition and backwardness, a once great power struggling to live on the trophies -- substantial as these were -- of its successful...