New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Jonathan W. White, “Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life” (Cumberland House, 2015)

   Published: 9/13/2018
2. Seymour M. Hersh, “Reporter: A Memoir” (Knopf, 2018)

   Published: 9/10/2018
3. Marc Leeds, “The Vonnegut Encyclopedia” (Delacorte Press, 2016)

   Published: 9/5/2018
4. Richard A. Billows, “Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great” (The Overlook Press, 2018)

   Published: 8/23/2018
5. Brian Abrams, “Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017” (Little A, 2018)

   Published: 8/21/2018
6. Jenny Hale Pulispher, “Swindler Sachem: The American Indian Who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England” (Yale UP, 2018)

   Published: 8/20/2018
7. Bob Brody, “Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age” (Heliotrope Books, 2017)

   Published: 8/16/2018
8. Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)

   Published: 8/10/2018
9. Vanessa Valdés, “Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg” (SUNY Press, 2018)

   Published: 8/3/2018
10. Joanna M. Williams, “Manchester’s Radical Mayor: Abel Heywood, The Man Who Built the Town Hall” (The History Press, 2017)

    Published: 7/31/2018
11. Mirjam Zadoff, “Werner Scholem: A German Life” (U Penn Press, 2018)

    Published: 7/23/2018
12. John Mackay, “The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West” (Scribner, 2018)

    Published: 7/20/2018
13. Phil Proctor and Brad Shreiber, “Where’s my Fortune Cookie?” (Blurb, 2017)

    Published: 7/13/2018
14. Robert Dallek, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life” (Viking, 2017)

    Published: 7/12/2018
15. Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)

    Published: 7/11/2018
16. Roger Biles, “Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago” (U Illinois Press, 2018)

    Published: 7/5/2018
17. Simon Kerry, “Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig” (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018).

    Published: 6/27/2018
18. Denise Von Glahn, “Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life” (U Illinois Press,

    Published: 6/26/2018
19. Natalie Robins, “The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling” (Columbia UP, 2017)

    Published: 6/22/2018
20. Victor Li, “Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2018)

    Published: 6/20/2018