New Books in Biography

1665 Episodes

1. Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

   Published: 12/28/2023
2. David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)

   Published: 12/27/2023
3. Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)

   Published: 12/26/2023
4. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 12/26/2023
5. Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)

   Published: 12/26/2023
6. Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)

   Published: 12/26/2023
7. Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)

   Published: 12/25/2023
8. Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)

   Published: 12/25/2023
9. 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
10. Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/4/2023