New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Elle Dowd, "Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist" (Broadleaf, 2021)

   Published: 3/24/2022
2. 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
3. On the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki

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

   Published: 3/22/2022
5. 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
6. 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
7. John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)

   Published: 3/21/2022
8. Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)

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

   Published: 3/17/2022
10. Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)

    Published: 3/17/2022
11. E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)

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

    Published: 3/17/2022
13. René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

    Published: 3/16/2022
14. Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)

    Published: 3/15/2022
15. Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)

    Published: 3/14/2022
16. Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)

    Published: 3/11/2022
17. Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright Publishing, 2020)

    Published: 3/11/2022
18. Randall Horton, "Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

    Published: 3/10/2022
19. Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)

    Published: 3/9/2022
20. Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)

    Published: 3/9/2022