New Books in Biography

1667 Episodes

1. Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

   Published: 4/8/2022
2. Adrian Shubert, "The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

   Published: 4/7/2022
3. Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/7/2022
4. David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/6/2022
5. Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)

   Published: 4/6/2022
6. Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

   Published: 4/4/2022
7. Richard K. Rein, "American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life" (Island Press, 2022)

   Published: 4/1/2022
8. Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)

   Published: 4/1/2022
9. Swami Medhananda, "Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/31/2022
10. Rickson Gracie and Peter Maguire, "Breathe: A Life in Flow" (Dey Street, 2021)

    Published: 3/24/2022
11. Elle Dowd, "Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist" (Broadleaf, 2021)

    Published: 3/24/2022
12. Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, "Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley" (U British Columbia Press, 2021)

    Published: 3/23/2022
13. On the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki

    Published: 3/22/2022
14. Tinatin Japaridze, "Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism" (Lexington Books, 2022)

    Published: 3/22/2022
15. Dan Grunfeld, "By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream" (Triumph Books, 2022)

    Published: 3/21/2022
16. Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/21/2022
17. John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/21/2022
18. E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)

    Published: 3/17/2022
19. Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)

    Published: 3/17/2022
20. Brian J. Peterson, "Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/17/2022