New Books in Biography

1697 Episodes

1. Norman L. Macht, “The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956” (U. of Nebraska Press, 2015)

   Published: 6/28/2016
2. David Potter, “Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint” (Oxford UP, 2015)

   Published: 6/26/2016
3. Marlene Trestman, “Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin” (Louisiana State UP, 2016)

   Published: 6/26/2016
4. Thomas Knock, “Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern” (Princeton UP, 2016)

   Published: 6/19/2016
5. Ed Berlin, “King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era” (Oxford UP, 2016)

   Published: 6/15/2016
6. Steve Kemper, “A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham” (W. W. Norton, 2016)

   Published: 6/13/2016
7. Roger Daniels, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939” (U Illinois Press, 2015)

   Published: 6/2/2016
8. Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”

   Published: 5/20/2016
9. Mel Scult, “The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan” (Indiana UP, 2013)

   Published: 5/16/2016
10. Michael Broer, “Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny” (Pegasus, 2015)

    Published: 5/13/2016
11. Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)

    Published: 5/4/2016
12. Peter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)

    Published: 4/30/2016
13. Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016)

    Published: 4/19/2016
14. Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)

    Published: 4/19/2016
15. Shai Held, “Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence” (Indiana UP, 2013)

    Published: 2/16/2016
16. Julie Des Jardins, “Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man” (Oxford University Press, 2015)

    Published: 2/6/2016
17. Sarah Maza, “Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris” (U. of California Press, 2012)

    Published: 12/18/2015
18. John Allen Paulos, “A Numerate Life” (Prometheus Books, 2015)

    Published: 11/12/2015
19. Megan Marshall, “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Mariner Books, 2013)

    Published: 11/8/2015
20. James E. Strick, “Wilhelm Reich, Biologist” (Harvard UP, 2015)

    Published: 10/6/2015