New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)

   Published: 7/13/2017
2. Geoffrey D. Claussen, “Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar” (SUNY Press, 2015)

   Published: 7/13/2017
3. Allan H. Pasco, “Balzac, Literary Sociologist” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

   Published: 7/8/2017
4. Michael J. Hogan, “The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Biography” (Cambridge UP, 2017)

   Published: 6/27/2017
5. Mitchell Stephens, “The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism” (St. Martin’s, 2017)

   Published: 6/27/2017
6. David Kushner, “Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D” (Nation Books, 2017)

   Published: 6/23/2017
7. Michael Witwer, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons” (Bloomsbury, 2015)

   Published: 6/19/2017
8. Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)

   Published: 6/8/2017
9. William Walsh, “Forty-Four American Boys: Short Histories of Presidential Childhoods” (Outpost19, 2017)

   Published: 6/4/2017
10. Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch, “Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family” (Columbia UP, 2017)

    Published: 6/2/2017
11. Susan Rubenstein DeMasi, “Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force Behind the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project” (McFarland, 2016)

    Published: 6/1/2017
12. Michael J. Turner” Radicalism and Reputation: The Career of Bronterre O’Brien” (Michigan State UP, 2017)

    Published: 5/31/2017
13. Clyde Farnsworth, “Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century” (U. Missouri Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/31/2017
14. Paul Youngquist, “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism” (U. Texas Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/27/2017
15. John Bohrer, “The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest after JFK” (Bloomsbury, 2017)

    Published: 5/25/2017
16. Patrick J. Hayes, “The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist” (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/23/2017
17. Linda Heywood, “Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen” (Harvard University Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/19/2017
18. Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)

    Published: 5/15/2017
19. Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/11/2017
20. Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)

    Published: 4/30/2017