New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

   Published: 12/24/2023
2. Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)

   Published: 12/22/2023
3. Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)

   Published: 12/15/2023
4. Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)

   Published: 12/15/2023
5. Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 12/14/2023
6. Sean Howe, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" (Hachette Books, 2023)

   Published: 12/10/2023
7. Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)

   Published: 12/9/2023
8. Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)

   Published: 12/9/2023
9. Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)

   Published: 12/8/2023
10. Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/7/2023
11. Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

    Published: 12/5/2023
12. Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)

    Published: 12/4/2023
13. Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)

    Published: 12/3/2023
14. On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

    Published: 11/30/2023
15. Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)

    Published: 11/29/2023
16. Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)

    Published: 11/28/2023
17. Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)

    Published: 11/27/2023
18. E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)

    Published: 11/26/2023
19. Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)

    Published: 11/25/2023
20. Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)

    Published: 11/23/2023