New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Kelly J. Beard, "An Imperfect Rapture" (Zone 3 Press, 2018)

   Published: 4/15/2019
2. Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America" (Rutgers UP, 2018)

   Published: 4/10/2019
3. Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: The World Bank and International Development" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)

   Published: 4/8/2019
4. Bruce Van Orden, "We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps" (BYU, 2018)

   Published: 3/29/2019
5. Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)

   Published: 3/28/2019
6. Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works" (Pantheon, 2017)

   Published: 3/26/2019
7. Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

   Published: 3/19/2019
8. Kent Blansett, "A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and Red Power" (Yale UP, 2018)

   Published: 3/15/2019
9. Richard Drake, "Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism" (Cornell UP, 2018)

   Published: 3/12/2019
10. Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind" (U Toronto Press, 2018)

    Published: 3/6/2019
11. Ronald L. Lewis and Robert L. Zangrando, "Walter F. White: The NAACP’s Ambassador for Racial Justice" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

    Published: 3/1/2019
12. Robin Wallace, "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery" (UChicago Press, 2018)

    Published: 2/7/2019
13. Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army" (UP of Kansas, 2018)

    Published: 1/18/2019
14. Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)

    Published: 1/16/2019
15. David Dayen, "Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story" (Strong Arm Press, 2018)

    Published: 1/14/2019
16. Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxford UP, 2018)

    Published: 1/14/2019
17. Joe Jackson, "Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary" (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2016)

    Published: 1/11/2019
18. Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)

    Published: 1/11/2019
19. Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" (Scientific American, 2017)

    Published: 1/7/2019
20. Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely" (Other Press, 2019)

    Published: 1/2/2019