New Books in Biography

Interviews with Biographers about their New Books

Society & Culture
History
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Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intell...
40 min
27
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpur...
64 min
28
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Ba...
Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...
26 min
29
Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty ...
54 min
30
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Intr...
54 min
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Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimis...
70 min
32
Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a ...
29 min
33
Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon o...
This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814...
58 min
34
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
35
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Sla...
68 min
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Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
42 min
37
W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete...
58 min
38
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic...
110 min
39
Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, ...
59 min
40
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezi...
40 min
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
95 min
42
Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of ...
44 min
43
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our L...
47 min
44
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's ...
40 min
45
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Ro...
An interview with Robert Morstein-Marx
82 min
46
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Pow...
42 min
47
Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
41 min
48
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J...
48 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min