New Books in Biography

1665 Episodes

1. Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/6/2023
2. Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/5/2023
3. John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)

   Published: 9/3/2023
4. Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/3/2023
5. Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)

   Published: 9/2/2023
6. Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)

   Published: 8/30/2023
7. On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen

   Published: 8/29/2023
8. David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)

   Published: 8/28/2023
9. Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)

   Published: 8/27/2023
10. Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)

    Published: 8/25/2023
11. Becoming Justice Thomas

    Published: 8/20/2023
12. Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)

    Published: 8/19/2023
13. Earl Cureton and Jake Uitti, "Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball" (McFarland, 2023)

    Published: 8/16/2023
14. Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)

    Published: 8/15/2023
15. Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)

    Published: 8/14/2023
16. Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)

    Published: 8/13/2023
17. Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)

    Published: 8/12/2023
18. Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

    Published: 8/12/2023
19. Michael Broers, "Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

    Published: 8/12/2023
20. William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)

    Published: 8/9/2023