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Interviews with Biographers about their New Books
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Chaim Miller, "Turning Judaism Outward: A Biography of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe" (Kol Menachem, 2014)
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May 18, 2024 |
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David Winner, "Master Lovers: A Twisted Puzzle of Love and Fascism" (Outpost 19, 2023)
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May 13, 2024 |
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Dan Chapman, "A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land" (Island Press, 2022)
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May 11, 2024 |
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Hilary White, "Holes" (MA Bibliotheque, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Mark Dooley, "Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Hemjyoti Medhi, "Gendered Publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samiti in Colonial Assam" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Michael Gilson, "Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Katie Gee Salisbury, "Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong" (Dutton, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Nancy M. Martin, "Mirabai: The Making of a Saint" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Andrés Reséndez, "Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Crawford Gribben, "J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Tarek El-Ariss, "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War" (Other Press, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Alexander Greenhough, "Albert Brooks: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2024)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Jason Bell, "Cracking the Nazi Code: The Untold Story of Canada's Greatest Spy" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Steven Nadler, "Spinoza: A Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Diana Chapman Walsh, "The Claims of Life: A Memoir" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Peter Gray, "William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism" (U College Dublin Press, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Amanda Wunder, "Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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On Fiorello La Guardia and Why He Still Matters: A Discussion with Author Terry Golway
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Charles E. Curran, "Loyal Dissent: Memoir of a Catholic Theologian" (Georgetown UP, 2006)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Tanisha Ford, "Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement" (Amistad Press, 2024)
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Jonathan Chatwin, "The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Traian Sandu, "Ceausescu: The Ambiguous Dictator" (Perrin, 2023)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Hume, the Epicureans, and the Origins of Liberalism
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Sarah Horowitz, "The Red Widow: The Scandal That Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All" (Sourcebooks, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Marie de Vignerot, Richelieu's Forgotten Advisor and Heiress
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Paul Carter, "Richard Nixon: California's Native Son" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Robin Waterfield, "Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Jamie Goodall, "Daring Exploits of Pirate Black Sam Bellamy: From Cape Cod to the Caribbean" (History Press, 2023)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Adam Lazarus, "The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams" (Citadel Press, 2023)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Brent M. Rogers, "Buffalo Bill and the Mormons" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Paul Bew, "Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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David Ostrowsky, "Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Amy Absher, "Fritzie: The Invented Life and Violent Murder of a Flapper" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar" (Navayana Press, 2023)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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The Pioneering Life of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Elizabeth B. White and Joanna Sliwa, "The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust" (Simon & Schuster, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Patrick Olivelle, "Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Edda Fields-Black, "Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Ben Rothenberg, "Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice" (Dutton, 2024)
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Jean-Manuel Roubineau, "The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Yaniv Feller, "The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Peter Harmsen, "Bernhard Sindberg: The Schindler of Nanjing" (Casemate, 2024)
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Judith Pearson, "Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023)
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Neema Avashia, "Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place" (West Virginia UP, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill, "Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain: The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism" (Regalo Press, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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Deborah Taffa, "Whiskey Tender: A Memoir" (Harper, 2024)
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Josh Fernandez, "The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist" (PM Press, 2024)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Gregory Wallance, "Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams, "Kubrick: An Odyssey" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer, "Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind: James Montgomery and His War on Slavery" (U Oklahoma Press, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Varon, "Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Michael O'Malley, "The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Gregor Gall, "Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero " (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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John J. Michalczyk et al.. "Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust: A Prelude to Genocide" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Catherine Powell-Warren, "Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch 17th Century" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Paul D. Barclay, "Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising" (Eastbridge Books, 2023)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Simon Shuster, "The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky" (William Morrow, 2024)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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On Henry Einspruch's 1941 Yiddish Translation of the Christian Bible
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Matt Singer, "Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Con Coughlin, "Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny" (Picador, 2023)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Sandro R. Barros et al., "The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum" (U Florida Press, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Peter J. Williamson, "Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Colin Jones, "The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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W. K. Stratton, "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Margaret M. McGuinness, "Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision" (Paulist Press, 2023)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Khurram Hussain, "Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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David T. Beito, "The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance" (Independent Institute, 2023)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Stuart Elden, “Foucault: The Birth of Power” (Polity Press, 2017)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography" (Hill and Wang, 2020)
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Matt Garcia, "Eli and the Octopus: The CEO Who Tried to Reform One of the World’s Most Notorious Corporations" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Laurence Jurdem, "The Rough Rider and the Professor: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Friendship that Changed American History" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Ronald C. White, "On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain" (Random House, 2023)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Peter Brown, "Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Sean Howe, "Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s" (Hachette Books, 2023)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, "Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine" (Callaway, 2023)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Dec 09, 2023 |
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Burkhard Bilger, "Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets" (Random House, 2023)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Susan Blumberg-Kason, "Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China" (Post Hill Press, 2023)
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Ramsey Lewis and Aaron Cohen, "Gentleman of Jazz: A Life in Music" (Blackstone, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Barbara D. Savage, "Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Henrietta Harrison, "The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Roslyn Weiss, "Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings" (Library of the Jewish People, 2023)
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Paul Le Blanc, "Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution" (Pluto Press, 2023)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Kawika Guillermo, "Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Amy Harris, "Being Single in Georgian England: Families, Households, and the Unmarried" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Greil Marcus, "Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Christopher Lazarski, "Lord Acton for Our Time" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Warren Zanes, "Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' (Crown, 2023)
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Keith Cantú, "Like a Tree Universally Spread: Sri Sabhapati Swami And Śivarājayoga" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Beatriz Nascimento, "The Dialectic Is in the Sea: The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Shelley Fraser Mickle, "White House Wild Child: How Alice Roosevelt Broke All the Rules and Won the Heart of America" (Imagine, 2023)
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Shannon McKenna Schmidt, "The First Lady of World War II: Eleanor Roosevelt's Daring Journey to the Frontlines and Back" (Sourcebooks, 2023)
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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David Alan Parnell, "Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Jacqueline R. Braitman, "She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Woodrow Wilson: Patrick Weil’s "The Madman in the White House"
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Matthew Thiessen, "A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles" (Baker Academic, 2023)
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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The Unquiet Legacy of Jewish Radical Meir Kahane
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Vikram Visana, "Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji’s Political Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Paul Clammer, "Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom" (Hurst, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Victoria Houseman, "American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Jana Randow and Alessandro Speciale, "Mario Draghi, the Craftsman: The True Story of the Man Who Saved the Euro" (Rizzoli, 2019)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Kristen Green, "The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail" (Seal Press, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Helen Rappaport, "In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Black Cultural Icon" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Patrick Laude, "Surrendering to the Self: Ramana Maharshi's Message for the Present" (Hurst, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Oluwatomisin Olayinka Oredein, "The Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice" (U Notre Dame Press, 2023)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt" (Simon & Schuster, 2023)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Lee Wind, "No Way, They Were Gay?: Hidden Lives and Secret Loves" (Zest Books, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Sumit Chakrabarti, "Local Selfhood, Global Turns: Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Sirpa Salenius, "An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Mark Thomas Edwards, "Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Jessica Hendry Nelson, "Joy Rides Through the Tunnel of Grief" (U Georgia Press, 2023)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Michael O’Sullivan, "The Poet & the Baroness: W. H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship" (CEU Press, 2023)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Anthony Gad Bigio, "A Sephardi Turkish Patriot: Gad Franco in the Turmoil of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic" (Hamilton Books, 2023)
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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Chris Molanphy, "Old Town Road" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Steven Veerapen, "The Wisest Fool: The Life of James VI and I" (Birlinn, 2023)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Tomaz Jardim, "Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the 'Bitch of Buchenwald'" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Erik Sherman, "Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Kristal Brent Zook, "The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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John Szwed, "Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith" (FSG, 2023)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Zachary Jacobson, "On Nixon's Madness: An Emotional History" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Peter K. Andersson, "Fool: In Search of Henry VIII's Closest Man" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Knopf Doubleday, 2023)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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On “Henry Kissinger and His World” with author Barry Gewen
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Mbaye Lo and Carl W. Ernst, "I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Becoming Justice Thomas
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Earl Cureton and Jake Uitti, "Earl the Twirl: My Life in Basketball" (McFarland, 2023)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell, "Johnson at 10: The Inside Story" (Atlantic Books, 2023)
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Michael Broers, "Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Ashley Robertson Preston, "Mary Mcleod Bethune the Pan-Africanist" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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William J. Mann, "Bogie and Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair" (Harper, 2023)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Michèle Miller Sigg, "Birthing Revival: Women and Mission in Nineteenth-Century France" (Baylor UP, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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James Crossley and Robert J. Myles, "Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict" (Zero Books, 2023)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Talking Clarence Thomas: A Conversation with Amul Thapar
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Breaking Out: An Indian Woman's American Journey
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Stephen C. Taysom, "Like a Fiery Meteor: The Life of Joseph F. Smith" (U of Utah Press, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Michelle Dowd, "Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult--A Memoir" (Algonquin, 2023)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Nicole Evelina, "America's Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor" (Two Dot Books, 2023)
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Howard Fishman, "To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse" (Dutton, 2023)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Alfred J. Rieber, "Stalin As Warlord" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Katherine C. Mooney, "Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Greg A. Salazar, "Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England: The Theology and Career of Daniel Featley" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Deirdre Bair on Artist Saul Steinberg
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Stephen Hauser, "The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries: The Education of a Doctor" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Anna Müller, "An Ordinary Life?: The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman, 1918-1996" (Ohio UP, 2023)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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David Wenham, "Jesus in Context: Making Sense of the Historical Figure" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Marcello Musto, "The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Thomas W. Lippman, "Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers" (Georgetown UP, 2023)
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Samuel G. Freedman, "Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Frank Costigliola, "Kennan: A Life Between Worlds" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Tanvi Srivastava, trans., "The War Diary of Asha-san: From Tokyo to Netaji's Indian National Army" (Harper Collins, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Judith Hicks Stiehm, "Janet Reno: A Life" (UP of Florida, 2023)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Randy Grigsby, "This Labyrinth of Darkness and Light: Henrietta Szold, the Rescue of Children from Hitler's Europe and Her Palestine Experience" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Perry Mehrling, "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Monica Macias, "Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity" (Duckworth, 2023)
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Learning for Liberation: The Life and Legacy of Paulo Freire
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May 29, 2023 |
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Joel Lafayette Fletcher III, "With Hawks and Angels: Episodes from a Southern Life" (UP of Mississippi, 2023)
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May 28, 2023 |
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Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band
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May 22, 2023 |
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Christopher H. Evans, "Do Everything: The Biography of Frances Willard" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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May 21, 2023 |
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Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
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May 19, 2023 |
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America & Democracy Ep. 5: Brandon Terry on MLK
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May 19, 2023 |
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Catherine Russell, "The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck: Twenty-Six Short Essays on a Working Star" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Pharmacological Histories Ep. 4: Andy Roberts on LSD's Cosmic Courier
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May 16, 2023 |
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The Life and Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Conversation with Allen C. Guelzo
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May 16, 2023 |
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Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
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May 15, 2023 |
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Kim E. Nielsen, "Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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May 14, 2023 |
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Bill Steigerwald, "30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South" (Lyons Press, 2017)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Harry V. Jaffa and the Fight for America: A Conversation with Glenn Ellmers
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May 09, 2023 |
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Jonathan Eig, "King: A Life" (FSG, 2023)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Chad Williams, "The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War" (FSG, 2023)
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May 05, 2023 |
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Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
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May 04, 2023 |
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John McCannon, "Nicholas Roerich: The Artist Who Would Be King" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2023)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Edgar Gomez, "High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir" (Soft Skull, 2022)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Brian Domitrovic, "The Emergence of Arthur Laffer: The Foundations of Supply-Side Economics in Chicago and Washington, 1966–1976" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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May 01, 2023 |
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Annie Zaleski, "Lady Gaga: Applause" (Palazzo Editions, 2022)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Ian Hembrow, "Ralph Edwards: Rare Events--The Inside Story of a Worldwide Quest for Safer Medicines" (Springer, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Paul R. Semendinger, "Roy White: From Compton to the Bronx" (Artemesia, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Ferenc Hörcher, "Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Tom Hutton, "Hitler's Maladies and Their Impact on World War II" (Texas Tech UP, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Vanessa Wilkie, "A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England" (Atria Books, 2023)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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John Lisle, "The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare" (St. Martin's Press, 2023)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin, "Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Heidi Langbein-Allen, "Save the Last Bullet: Memoir of a Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army" (Pen & Sword Military, 2022)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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David Edmonds, "Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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David Chrisinger, "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II" (Penguin, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Jeremy Richey, "Sylvia Kristel: From Emmanuelle to Chabrol" (Cult Epics, 2022)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov, "Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" (Brill, 2022)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Laura Arnold Leibman, "Once We Were Slaves: The Extraordinary Journey of a Multiracial Jewish Family" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Stuart Elden, "The Archaeology of Foucault" (Polity, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Eva Hagberg, "When Eero Met His Match: Aline Louchheim Saarinen and the Making of an Architect" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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David Horgan, "Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West" (U Nevada Press, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Wolfgang Marx, "I Don't Belong Anywhere: Gyorgy Ligeti At 100" (Brepols Publishers, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, eds., "Class Warrior: The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley" (Athabasca UP, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Christina Rice, "Mean...Moody...Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Andrea Friederici Ross, "Edith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick" (Southern Illinois UP, 2020)
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Jacob Norris, "The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Rose Marshack, "Play Like a Man: My Life in Poster Children" (U Illinois Press, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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From China's Lost Generation to American Private Equity Professor
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Book Talk 58: Vivian Gornick on Emma Goldman
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Sherine Tadros, "Taking Sides: A Memoir about Love, War, and Changing the World" (Scribe, 2023)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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R. J. M. Blackett, "Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Stephen Prothero, "God, the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time" (HarperOne, 2023)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Illuminations Episode 1: Experimental Methods
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Kelsey Klotz, "Dave Brubeck and the Performance of Whiteness" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Megan Buskey, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet: A Family Story of Exile and Return" (Ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Robin L. Owens, "'My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole': Barbara Jordan and the Politics of Scriptures" (Georgetown UP, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Brian Harker, "Sportin' Life: John W. Bubbles, an American Classic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Late Colonial Period" (U The West Indies Press, 2019)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Lillian Colon, "Lilly: The First Latina Rockette" (Lilly Enterprises, 2021)
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Hilbourne A. Watson, "Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados: The Independence Period, 1966-1976" (U West Indies Press, 2020)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Francine Lazarus, "A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium: Survival, Scars and Healing" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2017)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Steve Kemper, "Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Margaret Hall, "Gemignani: Life and Lessons from Broadway and Beyond" (Applause Books, 2022)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Lara Gabrielle, "Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies" (U California Press, 2022)
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Jonathan W. White and Lydia J. Davis, ed., "My Work Among the Freedmen: The Civil War and Reconstruction Letters of Harriet M. Buss" (U Virginia Press, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Joseph T. Stuart, "Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War" (Catholic U of America Press, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Leonard C. Spitale, "Victorine Du Pont: The Force Behind the Family" (U Delaware Press, 2022)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Jeffrey J. Matthews, "Colin Powell: Imperfect Patriot" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Deborah Holt Larkin, "A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of California's Most Notorious Killer" (Pegasus Crime, 2022)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Stephen F. Knott, "Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Mike Westhoff, "Figure It Out: My Thirty-Two-Year Journey While Revolutionizing Pro Football's Special Teams" (Mascot Books, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Ben Burgis, "Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters" (Zero Books, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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“Tech” Journalism and the Many Lives of Stewart Brand
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Alan Verskin, "Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The Sixteenth-Century Journey of David Reubeni Through Africa, the Middle East, and Europe" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Otherness, Disability, and Beauty: A Conversation with Pulitzer finalist Chloé Cooper Jones
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Vona Groarke, "Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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George Anton Kiraz, "Water the Willow Tree: Memoirs of a Bethlehem Boyhood" (Gorgias Press, 2022)
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Dick Weissman, "Bob Dylan's New York: A Historic Guide" (SUNY Press, 2022)
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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The Thought of Ivan Illich
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Elia Meghnagi, "Escape from Benghazi: Diary of an Imposter" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2022)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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On Émile Durkheim's "The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" (1912)
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Donna Stein, "Archaeology of Metaphor: The Art of Gilah Yelin Hirsch" (Skira, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Paul S. Landau, "Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries" (Ohio UP, 2022)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Sarah Imhoff, "The Lives of Jessie Sampter: Queer, Disabled, Zionist" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Richard Wolin, "Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Peter Hudis, "Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades" (Pluto Press, 2015)
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Albert Glinsky, "Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Ellen Cassedy, "Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie" (Chicago Review Press, 2022)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Vanessa A. Bee, "Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging" (Astra, 2022)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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John P. Gluck, "Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals: A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Aaron W. Hughes, "Jacob Neusner: An American Jewish Iconoclast" (NYU Press, 2016)
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Rebecca Binns, "Gee Vaucher: Beyond Punk, Feminism and the Avant-Garde" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Samsi, Queen of the Arabs
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Stuart Klawans, "Crooked, But Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Emma Wild-Wood, "The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes C. 1865-1935" (James Currey, 2020)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Kevin R. C. Gutzman, "The Jeffersonians: Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, 1801-1825" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Eve Golden, "Jayne Mansfield: The Girl Couldn't Help It" (UP of Kentucky, 2021)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Craig Seymour, "Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross" (2017)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Kathe Geist, "Ozu: A Closer Look" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Zvi Preigerzon, "Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Sonya Y. Ramsey, "Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership" (UP of Florida, 2022)
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Neil Baldwin, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern" (Knopf, 2022)
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Dec 17, 2022 |
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Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Ying-Chen Peng, "Artful Subversion: Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Nicholas de Villiers, "Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Daniel Gross. "A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire" (Radius Book Group, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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William Inboden, "The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink" (Dutton, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Natasha Lasky, "Britney Spears's Blackout" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Virginia L. Summey, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism within the Courts" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Edmund Hayes, "Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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Joseph Sassoon, "The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire" (Pantheon Books, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Future of Xi and China: A Discussion with Sue Lin Wong
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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William Marling, "Christian Anarchist: Ammon Hennacy, A Life on the Catholic Left" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Cornelia Spelman, "Missing" (Jackleg Press, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Stephen Galloway, "Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century" (Grand Central, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Gregory Nobles, "The Education of Betsey Stockton: An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Aidan Enright, "Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don: Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century Ireland" (Four Courts, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Ray Scott, "The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach" (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Joseph McBride, "Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Burt Kearns, "Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Jeanne Theoharis, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Beacon Press, 2015)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Elissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Gregor Gall, "The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer: Radicalism, Resistance and Rebellion" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Steve Kemper, "Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Michael Frank, "One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Rachael Hanel, "Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman's Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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John Darnell and Colleen Darnell, "Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Muggsy Bogues and Jake Uitti, "Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball" (Triumph, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Nancy Woloch, "The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Alma Zaragoza-Petty, "Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Mallory Lewis and Nat Segaloff, "Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop: The Team That Changed Children's TV" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Kelisha B. Graves, ed., "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959" (U Notre Dame Press, 2019)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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The Future of Vladimir Putin: A Discussion with Philip Short
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Rachel Schreiber, "Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration" (Temple UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Faleeha Hassan, "War and Me" (Amazon Crossing, 2022)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, "The Abbe Gregoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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David Weinfeld, "An American Friendship: Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Robin Waterfield, trans. and ed., "The Complete Works of Epictetus: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Leslie A. Geddes, "Watermarks: Leonardo Da Vinci and the Mastery of Nature" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Erin Keane, "Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me" (Belt Publishing, 2022)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Charles Sawyer, "B. B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the 'King of the Blues'" (Schiffer Publishing, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Ruth Harris, "Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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John D'Emilio, "Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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Alexander Mikaberidze, "Kutuzov: A Life in War and Peace" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Andrew Porwancher et al., "The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy" (UP of Kansas, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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M. Margaret McKeown, "Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas" (Potomac Books, 2022)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Emerald Garner, "Finding My Voice" (Haymarket, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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On the Life and Legacy of Queen Elizabeth II
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Gwendolyn Mink, "Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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R. E. Evans and B. E. Kinnear, "'Richard Eager'": A Pilot's Story from Tennessee Eagle Scout to General Montgomery's 'Flying Fortress'" (Kieran Publishing, 2021)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Fred S. Naiden, "Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Robert P. Watson, "George Washington's Final Battle: The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation" (Georgetown UP, 2021)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Beverly Weintraub, "Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators" (Lyons Press, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert, "Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman" (Seal Press, 2022)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, "Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Doug Greene, "Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism" (Zero Books, 2022)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Michael S. Green, "Lincoln and Native Americans" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Keri Blakinger, "Corrections in Ink: A Memoir" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Karen O'Brein-Kop, "Phiroz Mehta: A Zoroastrian Teacher of Indian Philosophy of Religion in 1970s-80s Britain"
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Jon Krampner, "Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Olivier Zunz, "The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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John Peter DiIulio, "Completely Free: The Moral and Political Vision of John Stuart Mill" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Timothy Paul Bowman, "You Will Never Be One of Us: A Teacher, a Texas Town, and the Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism" (U of Oklahoma Press, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Stevie Van Zandt, "Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir" (Hachette Books, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Chris Belcher, "Pretty Baby: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Steve Adelman, "Nocturnal Admissions: A Nightlife Memoir" (Santa Monica Press, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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David Reeve, "To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham" (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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David Crow, "The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story" (Sandra Jonas Publishing, 2019)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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R. B. More and Satyendra More, "Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R.B. More" (Leftword Books, 2020)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Joanne Watson, "Empress Eugenie: A Footnote History, 1826-1920" (Grosvenor House, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Liz Bucar, "Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Alexandr Dugin, Russia’s Imperial Philosopher: Into the Mind of a Russian Political Theorist
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Manuel Duarte de Oliveira, "Humanity Divided: Martin Buber and the Challenges of Being Chosen" (de Gruyter, 2021)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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Will Birch, "Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe" (Da Capo Press, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Vinayak Chaturvedi, "Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Essentials of History" (SUNY Press, 2022)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Hussein Aboubakr Mansour, "Minority Of One: The Unchaining of an Arab Mind" (2020)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Matti Friedman, "Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai" (Spiegel & Grau, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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E. James West, "Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr." (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Robert Edmund Cotter, "John Cennick (1718-1755): Methodism, Moravianism and the Rise of Evangelicalism" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Jonathon L. Earle and J. J. Carney, "Contesting Catholics: Benedicto Kiwanuka and the Birth of Postcolonial Uganda" (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Cynthia E. Orozco, "Pioneer of Mexican-American Civil Rights: Alonso S. Perales" (Arte Publico Press, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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87* Mike Leigh In Focus (JP)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos, "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (Texas A&M UP, 2022)
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Meenal Shrivastava, "Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir" (Athabasca UP, 2018)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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On Frederick Douglass
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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John Morton, "Celebrate Winter: An Olympian's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing" (Morton Trails, 2020)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Hans G. Myers, "The Lion of Round Top: The Life and Military Service of Brigadier General Strong Vincent in the American Civil War" (Casemate, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Marion (Mugs) McConnell, "Letters from the Yoga Masters" (North Atlantic Books, 2016)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Alexander Green, "Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Nick Davis, "Competing with Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, a Dual Portrait" (Knopf, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Michael Elliott, "Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story" (Chicago Review Press, 2021)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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Alice M. Kelly, "Decolonising the Conrad Canon" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Craig L. Symonds, "Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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86 Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton (JP EF)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Corey Robin, "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas" (Metropolitan Books, 2019)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Leah Kardos, "Blackstar Theory: The Last Works of David Bowie" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Will Jawando, "My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole" (FSG, 2022)
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Richard Middleton, "Cornwallis: Soldier and Statesman in a Revolutionary World" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Ali Mirsepassi, "The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, a Radical Cosmopolitan" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Thomas S. Kidd, "Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father" (Yale UP, 2017)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Hanan Hammad, "Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Skye Cleary, "How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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F. Brett Cox, "Roger Zelazny" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Dennis Deletant, "In Search of Romania" (Hurst, 2022)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Jay Baruch, "Tornado of Life: A Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Gabrielle David, "Trailblazers: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons" (2leaf Press, 2021)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Rachel Krantz, "Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation and Non-Monogamy" (Harmony, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Patrick Hastings, "The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Antonio Rigopoulos, "The Hagiographer and the Avatar: The Life and Works of Narayan Kasturi" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Bookends: A Conversation about Grad School, Loss, and Books
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Laurie Marhoefer, "Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Dean Krouk, "The Making of an Antifascist: Nordahl Grieg Between the World Wars" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Yehudah Mirsky, "Towards the Mystical Experience of Modernity: The Making of Rav Kook, 1865-1904" (Academic Studies Press, 2021)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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H. H. Leonards, "Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership" (R. H. Boyd, 2022)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Frank Close, "Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass" (Basic Book, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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The Future of Erdogan: A Discussion with Dimitar Bechev
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Yehudah Mirsky, "Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution" (Yale UP, 2014)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Simon Atkinson, "Krishnamacharya on Kundalini: The Origins and Coherence of His Position" (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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D. G. Hart, "Benjamin Franklin: Cultural Protestant" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Bradford P. Wilson and Carson Holloway, eds., "The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Joshua D. Zimmerman, "Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Srilata Raman, "The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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John Luther Adams, "Silences So Deep: Music, Solitude, Alaska" (FSG, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Slobodan Perovic, "From Data to Quanta: Niels Bohr’s Vision of Physics" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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William Ian Miller, "Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Carol A. Lipscomb, "The Lady Makes Boots: Enid Justin & the Nocona Boot Company" (Texas Tech UP, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Jerry Z. Muller, "Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Joshua Prager, "The Family Roe: An American Story" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Sarah Irving et al., "'The House of the Priest': A Palestinian Life (1885-1954)" (Brill, 2022)
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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Charles Elton, "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision" (Abrams Press, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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James Joyce and Catherine Flynn (ed.), "The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Mary Sarah Bilder, "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution" (U Virginia Press, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Wanda M. Corn, "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern" (Prestel Publishing, 2017)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Geoffrey Kurtz, "Jean Jaurès: The Inner Life of Social Democracy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2014)
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Bryan D. Palmer, "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Paul Galvez, "Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Richard Stamz and Patrick A. Roberts, "Give 'em Soul, Richard!: Race, Radio, and Rhythm and Blues in Chicago" (U Illinois Press, 2010)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Ray Argyle, "Inventing Secularism: The Radical Life of George Jacob Holyoake" (McFarland, 2021)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Chris Wade, "The Films of James Woods" (Wisdom Twins Books, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Carlos Acevedo, "The Duke: The Life and Lies of Tommy Morrison" (Hamilcar, 2022)
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May 30, 2022 |
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Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022) Part 2 of 2
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May 27, 2022 |
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John Markoff, "Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand" (Penguin, 2022)
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May 24, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Boyle, "Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past" (Sandycove, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Peter McFarlane with Doreen Manuel, "Brotherhood to Nationhood: George Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement" (Between the Lines, 2020)
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May 22, 2022 |
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Jeanne Baker Guy, "You'll Never Find Us: A Memoir" (She Writes Press, 2021)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Annabella Pitkin, "Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Charters Wynn, "The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936" (Brill, 2022)
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May 18, 2022 |
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Alvin Eng, "Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond" (Fordham UP, 2022)
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May 16, 2022 |
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Ariela Freedman, "Lea" (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Glenda E. Gilmore, "Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South" (UNC Press, 2022)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Mark Henick, "So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression and Resilience" (HarperCollins, 2021)
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May 09, 2022 |
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Gary B. Fogel, "Sky Rider: Park Van Tassel and the Rise of Ballooning in the West" (U New Mexico Press, 2021)
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May 06, 2022 |
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Ehud Olmert, "Searching for Peace: A Memoir of Israel" (Brookings Institution, 2022)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, "Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan" (U California Press, 2022)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Lea Ypi, "Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History" (Norton, 2021)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Michael Mackenzie, "Otto Dix and the First World War: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance" (Peter Lang, 2019)
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May 03, 2022 |
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Maia Weinstock, "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Ellen S. More, "The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Nancy Barile, "I'm Not Holding Your Coat: My Bruises-And-All Memoir of Punk Rock Rebellion" (Bazillion Points, 2021)
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Amadou Hampâté Bâ, "Amkoullel: The Fula Boy" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Mary Childs, "The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Geoffrey Wheatcroft, "Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill" (Norton, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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George Warner, "The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi'i Hadith Literature" (I. B. Tauris, 2021)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Takeshi Morisato, "Tanabe Hajime and the Kyoto School: Self, World, and Knowledge" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Yveline Alexis, "Haiti Fights Back: The Life and Legacy of Charlemagne Péralte" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Matthew Wilson, "Richard Congreve, Positivist Politics, the Victorian Press, and the British Empire" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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Kate Clifford Larson, "Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Adrian Shubert, "The Sword of Luchana: Baldomero Espartero and the Making of Modern Spain, 1793–1879" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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David Hajdu and John Carey, "A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Richard K. Rein, "American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life" (Island Press, 2022)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Scott Kugle, "Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Swami Medhananda, "Swami Vivekananda's Vedantic Cosmopolitanism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Elle Dowd, "Baptized in Tear Gas: From White Moderate to Abolitionist" (Broadleaf, 2021)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Rickson Gracie and Peter Maguire, "Breathe: A Life in Flow" (Dey Street, 2021)
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, "Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E. T. Kingsley" (U British Columbia Press, 2021)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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On the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Tinatin Japaridze, "Stalin's Millennials: Nostalgia, Trauma, and Nationalism" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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John W. I. Lee, "The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Dan Grunfeld, "By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream" (Triumph Books, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Stephen B. Heard, "The Scientist’s Guide to Writing: How to Write More Easily and Effectively Throughout Your Scientific Career, 2nd ed." (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Carole Emberton, "To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner" (Norton, 2022)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Brian J. Peterson, "Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Lily E. Hirsch, "Weird Al: Seriously" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Sandy Gall, "Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud" (Haus Publishing, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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E. James West, "Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America" (U of Illinois Press, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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René V. Arcilla, "Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, "To Live More Abundantly: Black Collegiate Women, Howard University, and the Audacity of Dean Lucy Diggs Slowe" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Friederike Assandri, "The Daode jing Commentary of Cheng Xuanying: Daoism, Buddhism, and the Laozi in the Tang Dynasty" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright Publishing, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Brett Kahr, "Freud's Pandemics: Surviving Global War, Spanish Flu, and the Nazis" (Confer Books, 2022)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Randall Horton, "Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Joshua Myers, "Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition" (Polity, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Dana Stevens, "Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Sherry Scott, "Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism" (Black Rose Writing, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Lynn Garafola, "La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Racheli Haliva, "Isaac Polqar: A Jewish Philosopher or a Philosopher and a Jew? (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Celia Stahr, "Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist" (St. Martin's Press, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Richard W. Etulain, "Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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James Lapine, "Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created 'Sunday in the Park with George'" (FSG, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Susan Chase Edgecomb, "Clearing in the West: Navigating the Journey Through Loss, Grief and Healing" (2021)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Chase Burton, "Nicole Rafter" (Routledge, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Erica Brown, "Esther: Power, Fate and Fragility in Exile" (Maggid, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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William Sites, "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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David Schwartz, "David Cronenberg: Interviews" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The Future of the Apocalyptic Right in the U.S.: A Discussion with Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Mary Norris, "Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen" (Norton, 2020)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Catherine Ehrlich, "Irma's Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage" (She Writes Press, 2021)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Timothy K. Blauvelt, "Clientalism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom: The Trials of Nestor Lakoba" (Routledge, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Christopher Clarey, "The Master: The Brilliant Career of Roger Federer" (Twelve, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Craig J. Reynolds, "Power, Protection and Magic in Thailand: The Cosmos of a Southern Policeman" (ANU Press, 2019)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Anthony Tucker-Jones, "Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Nauman Faizi, "God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Kenneth L. Caneva, "Helmholtz and the Conservation of Energy: Contexts of Creation and Reception" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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J. M. West, "Madame Bessie Jones: Her Life and Times" (Local History Press, 2021)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Michele Alacevich, "Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Nathaniel L. Moir, "Number One Realist: Bernard Fall and Vietnamese Revolutionary Warfare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Susan Jolliffe Napier, "Miyazakiworld: A Life in Art" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Susan Gilson Miller, "Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Michael Stewart Foley, "Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Midori Yamamura, "Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular" (MIT Press, 2015)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Andrew Porwancher, "The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Henry K. Miller, "The First True Hitchcock: The Making of a Filmmaker" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Howard Philips Smith, "A Sojourn in Paradise: Jack Robinson in 1950s New Orleans" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Matthew C. Watson, "Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker’s Spirit" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Kristin Waters, "Maria W. Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought" (U Mississippi Press, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Marion Thompson, "The Marion Thompson Wright Reader" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Vivian Kirkfield, "Making Their Voices Heard: The Inspiring Friendship of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe" (Little Bee Books, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Paul Halpern, "Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Philip J. Deloria, "Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Olivier Delers and Martin Sulzer-Reichel, "Wim Wenders: Making Films that Matter" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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D. Fairchild Ruggles, "Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar Al-Durr" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Carol Diehl, "Banksy: Completed" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Lynn Stephen, "Stories That Make History: Mexico through Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Mesfin Tadesse and Ianet Bastyan, "Lucy's People: An Ethiopian Memoir" (Yerada Lij, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Bill Schutt, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Carolyn Eastman, "The Strange Genius of Mr. O.: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Paul Kidder, "Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Julian E. Zelizer, "Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Life of Radical Amazement" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)
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Dec 17, 2021 |
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Aaron Weinacht, "Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Alex Panasenko, "The Long Vacation: A Memoir" (Iris Press, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Anna Machcewicz, "Civility in Uncivil Times: Kazimierz Moczarski's Quiet Battle for Truth, from the Polish Underground to Stalinist Prison" (Peter Lang, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Hassan Abbas, "The Prophet's Heir: The Life of Ali ibn Abi Talib" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Cassandra Lane, "We Are Bridges: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Fiona Hill, "There Is Nothing for You Here: Opportunity in an Age of Decline" (Mariner Books, 2021)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Diana Kelly, "The Red Taylorist: The Life and Times of Walter Nicholas Polakov" (Emerald, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Tim Hartman, "Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity" (Fortress Press, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Philip Larratt-Smith and Juliet Mitchell, "Louise Bourgeois, Freud's Daughter" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Dave Zirin, "The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World" (New Press, 2021)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Noah Isenberg ed., Shelley Frisch, trans., "Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
|
Dec 01, 2021 |
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Sean Brennan, "The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together: The Life of Rev. Fabian Flynn, CP" (Catholic U of America Press, 2018)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Andrew Roberts, "The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III" (Viking, 2021)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Peter Cole, "Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly" (PM Press, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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John D. French, "Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Hadassah Lieberman, "Hadassah: An American Story" (Brandeis UP, 2021)
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Vladimir Alexandrov, "To Break Russia's Chains: Boris Savinkov and His Wars Against the Tsar and the Bolsheviks" (Pegasus, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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David Barak-Gorodetsky, "Judah Magnes: The Prophetic Politics of a Religious Binationalist" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Stephen Cushman, "The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Karla Huebner, "Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Tamihana Te Rauparaha, "Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha" (Auckland UP, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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David Lester, "Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, A Graphic Novel" (Beacon Press, 2021)
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Andrea Warner, "Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography" (Graystone Books, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Samantha Durbin, "Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s" (She Writes Press, 2021)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Machiko Ōgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Hasana Sharp, “Flourishing Through Spinoza” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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John D. Gazzelli. "Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Morgan, KCB: The Planner Who Saved Europe" (Palmetto, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Tobias Hof, "Galeazzo Ciano: The Fascist Pretender" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Anthony Ianni, "Centered: Autism, Basketball, and One Athlete's Dreams" (Red Lightning Books, 2021)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Dyron B. Daughrity, "Worldly Christian: The Life and Times of Stephen Neill" ( Lutterworth Press, 2022)
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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Silvia Marina Arrom, "La Güera Rodrígue: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Ethan Kleinberg, "Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Daniel Andrés López, "Lukács: Praxis and the Absolute" (Haymarket Books, 2020)
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Oct 23, 2021 |
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John Roy Price, "The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Justin Beal, "Sandfuture" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Lindsey Stewart, "The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Elizabeth McCain, "A Lesbian Belle Tells: OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love" (Crystal Heart Imprints, 2020)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Dov Zakheim, "The Prince and the Emperors: The Life and Times of Rabbi Judah the Prince" (Maggid, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, "The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Onora O’Neill, “Kant, Applied” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Jan Matti Dollbaum et al., "Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Phil Rosenzweig, "Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men" (Fordham UP, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Helena de Bres, "Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Ranae Lenor Hanson, "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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William Souder, "Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck" (Norton, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Antonio Tomas, "Amlicar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Jonathan Rees, "The Chemistry of Fear: Harvey Wiley's Fight for Pure Food" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Vanilla Beer and Allenna Leonard, "Stafford Beer the Father of Management Cybernetics" (2019)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Kusumita P. Pedersen, "The Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy: Love and Transformation" (Lexington, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Daniel Gibbs, "A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Peter Richardson, "American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams" (U California Press, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Paul Shankman, "Margaret Mead" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Luke Epplin, "Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball" (Flatiron Books, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Susan James, “Exploring Spinoza” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Henry Hardy: Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sylvana Tomaselli, "Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Noah Hurowitz, "El Chapo: The Untold Story of the World's Most Infamous Drug Lord" (Atria Books, 2021)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Covering Donald Trump: A Conversation with Allen Salkin
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Shen Yang, "More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter" (Balestier Press, 2021)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Thomas Aiello, "The Life and Times of Louis Lomax: The Art of Deliberate Disunity" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Mary Gauthier, "Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting" (St. Martin's Essentials, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Edmund Richardson, "Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City Beneath the Mountains" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements, "Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and Tasmanian War Hero" (NewSouth, 2021)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Robin Wallace: Inspired By Beethoven
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Danny Adeno Abebe, "From Africa To Zion" (Miskal, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Joy Porter, "Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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A Brief Look at the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Christopher Gehrz, "Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America's Most Infamous Pilot" (William B. Eerdmans, 2021)
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Sara Reguer, "Winston S. Churchill and the Shaping of the Middle East, 1919-1922" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Grace M. Cho, "Tastes Like War: A Memoir" (Feminist Press, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Adam Henig, "Watergate's Forgotten Hero: Frank Wills, Night Watchman" (McFarland, 2021)
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Samantha Barbas, "The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Patricia O’Brien, "Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Buzzy Kerbox, "Making Waves" (Legacy Isle Publishing, 2019)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Tiffany A. Sippial, "Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Greg Larson, "Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Julie Rodgers, "Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story" (Broadleaf Books, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Daryl R. Ireland, "John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man" (Baylor UP, 2020)
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Supriya Gandhi, "The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Christopher J. Lee, "Kwame Anthony Appiah" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Jack Green and Ros Henry, "Olga Tufnell’s 'Perfect Journey': Letters and Photographs of an Archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean" (UCL Press, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Michal Kšiňan, "Milan Rastislav Štefánik: The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Daniel Shapiro, "The Thin Ledge: A Husband’s Memoir of Love, Trauma, and Unexpected Circumstances" (Greenleaf, 2021)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Moshe Halbertal, "Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Ken Ellingwood, "First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery" (Pegasus Books, 2021)
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Kate Kennedy, "Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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What Can Wittgenstein Teach Us About Raising Our Kids?: A Discussion with Ryan Ruby
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Lyle D. Bierma, "Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Krys Malcolm Belc, "The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood" (Counterpoint, 2021)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Susan Eisenhower, "How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions" (Thomas Dunne, 2020)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Matthew S. Gordon, "Ahmad ibn Tulun: Governor of Abbasid Egypt, 868–884" (Oneworld Academic, 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Edward G. Longacre, "Unsung Hero of Gettysburg: The Story of Union General David McMurtrie Gregg" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Katherine K. Preston, "George Frederick Bristow" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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R. Ward Holder, "John Calvin in Context" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Zachary Karabell, "Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power" (Penguin, 2021)
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Richard Thompson, "Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975" (Algonquin Books, 2021)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, "Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Mark Mordue, "Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave" (HarperCollins, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Peter C. Mancall, "The Trials of Thomas Morton" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Bob Kuska and Archie Clark, "Shake and Bake: The Life and Times of NBA Great Archie Clark" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Alexander Nemerov, "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" (Penguin Press, 2021)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli, "The Inheritance" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Bethany Hicok, "Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive" (Lever Press, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Mary D. Garrard, "Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Nelson Johnson, "Darrow's Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of America's Most Famous Trial Lawyer" (Rosetta Books, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Michael E. Lynch, "Edward M. Almond and the US Army: From the 92nd Infantry Division to the X Corps" (U Kentucky Press, 2019)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Julia Laite, "The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice" (Profile Books, 2021)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)
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May 28, 2021 |
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Danielle Geller, "Dog Flowers: A Memoir" (One World, 2021)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Christiane Tietz, "Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 26, 2021 |
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Blake Scott Ball, "Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
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Ronald C. White, "Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President" (Random House, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
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Michelle Chaplin Sanchez, "Calvin and the Resignification of the World: Creation, Incarnation, and the Problem of Political Theology in the 1559 'Institutes'" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Vanessa Carlisle, "Take Me with You" (Running Wild, 2021)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Jay Lockenour, "Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2021 |
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David Hardin, "Standpipe: Delivering Water in Flint" (Belt, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Harry Freedman, "Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Richard Toye, "Winston Churchill: A Life in the News" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Ayesha S. Chaudhry, "The Colour of God" (OneWorld, 2021)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Dave Seminara, "Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Kathleen Collins, "From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Jordana M. Saggese, "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Reader" (U California Press, 2021)
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May 12, 2021 |
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Meggan Watterson, "Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet" (Hay House, 2019)
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May 11, 2021 |
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David Weill, "Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant" (Post Hill Press, 2021)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Mira Sucharov, "Borders and Belonging: A Memoir" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Alison M. Parker, "Unceasing Militant: The Life of Mary Church Terrell" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Domenico Losurdo, "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet" (Haymarket Books, 2021)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Oksana Rosenblum et al., "Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Anthropologist Wade Davis Discusses His Life and Work
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May 05, 2021 |
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Adam Hochschild, "Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020)
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May 04, 2021 |
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Hari Ziyad, "Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir" (Little a, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Brent D. Ziarnick, "To Rule the Skies: General Thomas S. Power and the Rise of Strategic Air Command in the Cold War" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Jarvis R. Givens, "Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Andrew Maraniss, "Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke" (Philomel Books, 2021)
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Apr 23, 2021 |
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Carrie Noland, "Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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Jane Little Botkin, "The Girl Who Dared to Defy: Jane Street and the Rebel Maids of Denver" (U Oklahoma Press, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Bill Nowlin, "Vinyl Ventures: My Fifty Years at Rounder Records" (Equinox, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Ursula Pike, "An Indian Among Los Indígenas" (Heyday Books, 2021)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Dana Mills, "Rosa Luxemburg" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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John Sellars, "Marcus Aurelius" (Routledge, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Cedric Cohen-Skalli, "Don Isaac Abravanel: An Intellectual Biography" (Brandeis UP, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Sibbie O'Sullivan, "My Private Lennon: Explorations from a Fan Who Never Screamed" (Mad Creek Books, 2020)
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Apr 09, 2021 |
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Dennis McDougal, "Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King" (Simon and Schuster, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Jack Glazier, "Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race" (MSU Press, 2020)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Mary Ann Cherry, "Morris Kight: Humanist, Liberationist, Fantabulist: A Story of Gay Rights and Gay Wrongs" (Process, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Douglas A. Sweeney and Jan Stievermann, "The Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Roberto Lovato, "Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas" (Harper, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Petra de Koning, "Mark Rutte" (Brooklyn, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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James Eglinton, "Bavinck: A Critical Biography" (Baker Academic, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Hans Martin Krämer, "Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan" (U of Hawaii Press, 2016)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Arnold W. Rachman, "Elizabeth Severn: The 'Evil Genius' of Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2017)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Roy Flechner, "Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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William C. Kashatus, "William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
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Mar 12, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Becker, "You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Stephen J. Nichols, "R. C. Sproul: A Life" (Crossway, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Peter Hudis, ed., "The Letters Of Rosa Luxemburg" (Verso, 2013)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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T. G. Otte, "Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey" (Penguin, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Nadine Willems, "Ishikawa Sanshiro's Geographical Imagination" (Leiden UP, 2020)
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Philip Mansel, "King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV" (U of Chicago Press, 2019).
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Robert Elder, "Calhoun: American Heretic" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Gary Scott Smith, "Duty and Destiny: The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill" (Eerdmans, 2021)
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Marion Turner, "Chaucer: A European Life" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Stephanie Russo, "The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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John D. Wilsey, "God's Cold Warrior: The Life and Faith of John Foster Dulles" (Eardmans, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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G. Girard and T. Lockley, "African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan" (Hanover Square Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Ray Rhodes Jr., "Yours, Till Heaven: The Untold Love Story of Charles and Susie Spurgeon" (Moody Publishers, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Sydney Stern, "The Brothers Mankiewicz: Hope, Heartbreak, and Hollywood Classics" (U Mississippi Press, 2019)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Elesha J. Coffman, "Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton, "Vera Rubin: A Life" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Oliver Craske, "Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar" (Hachette, 2020)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Francesco Quatrini, "Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity" (Brill, 2020)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Jim Mackin, "Notable New Yorkers of Manhattan’s Upper West Side: Bloomingdale–Morningside Heights" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Linda C. Ehrlich, "The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema" (Palgrave, 2019)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Arlin C. Migliazzo, "Mother of American Evangelicalism: The Life and Legacy of Henrietta Mears" (Eerdmans, 2020)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Ed Caesar, "The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest" (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Brian Deer, "The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield's War on Vaccines" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Nicholas McDowell, "Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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Alexs Thompson, "I'll Go: War, Religion, and Coming Home, from Cairo to Kansas City" (2020)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Elisa Pulido, "The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista: Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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André Gregory, "This Is Not My Memoir" (FSG, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Jeffrey B. Perry, "Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918–1927" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Janis Tomlinson, "Goya: A Portrait of the Artist" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Rachel Berenson Perry, "The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Oliver Gloag, "Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Woojeong Joo, "Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday" (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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David A. Varel, "The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein" (Daisy H. Productions, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Sean Anthony, "Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam" (U California Press, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Sophia Chang, "The Baddest Bitch in the Room" (Catapult, 2020)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir" (Tin House Books, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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J. A. Ball and T. Burroughs, "A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable's Malcolm X" (Black Classic Press, 2015)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Edwin Wilson, "Magic Time, a Memoir: Notes on Theatre & Other Entertainment" (Smith & Kraus, 2020)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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Ben Bland, "Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia" (Penguin, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Daniel S. Lucks, "Reconsidering Reagan: Racism, Republicans, and the Road to Trump" (Beacon Press, 2020)
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Douglas Morris, "Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler's Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Susan M. Reverby, "Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Justin Gifford, "Revolution Or Death: The Life of Eldridge Cleaver" (Lawrence Hill, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Timothy Hampton, "Bob Dylan: How the Songs Work" (Zone Books, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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M. T. Mulder and G. Marti, "The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Dinyar Patel, "Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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David Adjmi, "Lot Six" (Harper, 2020)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Clayborne Carson, "Malcolm X: The FBI File" (Skyhorse, 2012)
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Victoria Phillips, "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Jeremy Black, "George III: Madness and Majesty" (Penguin, 2020)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry McNeal Turner' (UP Mississippi, 2020)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Luke A. Nichter, "The Last Brahmin: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Kat D. Williams, "Isabel 'Lefty' Alvarez: The Improbable Life of a Cuban American Baseball Star" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Charlotte Eubanks, "The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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T. C. F. Stunt, "The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles: A Forgotten Scholar" (Springer, 2019)
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Julius Margolin, "Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Amy Stanley, "Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World" (Scribner, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Ronald Grigor Suny, "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Mark Glancy, "Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Tobias Harris, "The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan" (Hurst, 2020)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Jon Hoover, "Ibn Taymiyya" (Oneworld, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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John Lobell, "Louis Kahn: Architecture as Philosophy" (Monacelli Press, 2020)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Bonny H. Miller, "Augusta Browne: Composer and Woman of Letters in Nineteenth-Century America" (U Rochester Press, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Ellen Wayland-Smith, "The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America" (Atria Books, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Morris Ardoin, "Stone Motel: Memoirs of a Cajun Boy" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Bernice Lerner, "All the Horrors of War: A Jewish Girl, a British Doctor, and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Ernest Freeberg, "A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement" (Basic Books, 2020)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Charles F. Walker, "Witness to the Age of Revolution: The Odyssey of Juan Bautista Tupac Amaru" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Melissa Valentine, "The Names of All the Flowers: A Memoir" (The Feminist Press, 2020)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Ian Kumekawa, "The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics" (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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D. Benge and N. Pickowicz, "The American Puritans" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2020)
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Oct 02, 2020 |
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Laura J. Arata, "Race and the Wild West" (U Oklahoma Press, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Adriaan C. Neele, "Petrus van Mastricht (1630-1706): Text, Context, and Interpretation" (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2020)
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Roman Deininger, "Markus Söder: The Shadow Chancellor" (Droemer Knauer, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Anais Angelo, "Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Jody A. Forrester, "Guns Under the Bed: Memories of a Young Revolutionary" (Odyssey Books, 2020)
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Sep 18, 2020 |
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Anne García-Romero, "The Fornes Frame" (U Arizona Press, 2016)
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Meg Heckman, "Political Godmother: Nackey Scripps Loeb and the Newspaper That Shook the Republican Party" (Potomac Books, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Political Strategist
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Audrey Truschke, “Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial King” (Stanford UP, 2017)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Joanna Stingray, "Red Wave: An American in the Soviet Music Underground" (Doppelhouse Press, 2020)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Tamar Herzig, "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Crawford Gribben, "An Introduction to John Owen: A Christian Vision for Every Stage of Life" (Crossway, 2020)
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History" (ABC-CLIO, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party" (Penguin, 2020)
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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A. Meleagrou-Hitchens, "Incitement: Anwar al-Awlaki’s Western Jihad" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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A Discussion with J. T. Roane on Writing African American Lives
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Steven C. Smith, "Music by Max Steiner: The Epic Life of Hollywood’s Most Influential Composer" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Benjamin Talton, "In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics" (Pennsylvania UP, 2019)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Lucas E. Morel, "Lincoln and the American Founding" (SIUP, 2020)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Rae Linda Brown, "Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Political Biography" (SUNY Press, 2017)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Polly E. Bugros McLean, "Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High" (UP of Colorado, 2018)
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Amy Von Lintel, "Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting: The Labor Plays of Manny Fried" (SIU Press 2020)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Nozomi Naoi, "Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 9: Vanity of Vanities
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Russell J. A. Kilbourn, "The Cinema of Paolo Sorrentino: Commitment to Style" (Wallflower Press, 2020)
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 8: A Very Difficult Man to Kill
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Theresa Kaminski, "Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights" (Lyons Press, 2020)
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
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Jul 24, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 7: The Christ Vision
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Jerry Gershenhorn, "Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 6: Negative Interest
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Nasser Rahmaninejad, "A Man of the Theatre: Survival as an Artist in Iran" (New Village Press, 2020)
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Frank Dimatteo, "Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia" (Citadel, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Christopher Bonanos, "Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous" (Henry Holt, 2018)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith" (Ignatius Press, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 5: The Slavonic Josephus
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Zachary Carter, "Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 4: Women’s Coats and Beach Cabanas
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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James M. Lundberg, "Horace Greeley: Print, Politics, and the Failure of American Nationhood" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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François Clemmons, "Officer Clemmons: A Memoir" (Catapult, 2020)
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Anya Jabour, "Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 3: Eisler vs. the Flat Earth
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Shana Redmond, "Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Philip A. Craig, "The Bond of Grace and Duty in the Soteriology of John Owen" (Founders Press, 2020)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Imre Salusinszky, "The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga" (Melbourne UP, 2019)
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 2: Value Theory
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Nandini Patwardhan, "Radical Spirits: India’s First Woman Doctor and Her American Champions" (Story Artisan Press, 2020)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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A Very Square Peg: A Podcast Series about Polymath Robert Eisler. Episode 1: Man into Wolf
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Ana María Reyes, "The Politics of Taste: Beatriz González and Cold War Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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Tanya Harmer, "Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Andrei Kushnir, "Epic Journey: Life and Times of Wasyl Kushnir" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Michael Braddick, "The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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May 29, 2020 |
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Mitchell Nathanson, "Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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May 25, 2020 |
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Brandon K. Winford, "John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights" (UP Kentucky, 2019)
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May 19, 2020 |
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Derek Penslar, "Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader" (Yale UP, 2020)
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May 19, 2020 |
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Chris Fleming, "On Drugs" (Giramondo Publishing, 2019)
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May 14, 2020 |
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Nancy Mattina, "Uncommon Anthropologist: Gladys Reichard and Western Native American Culture" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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May 13, 2020 |
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Lisa Balabanlilar, "The Emperor Jahangir: Power and Kingship in Mughal India" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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May 08, 2020 |
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Kwasi Konadu, "In Our Own Way In this Part of the World" (Duke UP, 2019)
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May 07, 2020 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Martha Ackmann, "These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson" (Norton, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Margaret Randall, "I Never Left Home: Poet, Feminist, Revolutionary" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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David Kettler and Thomas Wheatland, "Learning From Franz L. Neumann" (Anthem Press, 2019)
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Christopher Tomlins, "In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Charles J. Holden, "Republican Populist: Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump’s America" (UVA Press, 2019)
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Cynthia Orozco, "Agent of Change: Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist" (U Texas Press, 2020)
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Great Books: Nicholas Johnson on Samuel Beckett
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Tim Rooney, "John Beilein at Michigan: A Basketball Revival" (McFarland, 2020)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Tom Chaffin, "Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations" (St. Martins, 2019)
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Great Books: Denis Hollier on Lévi-Strauss' "Tristes Tropiques"
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Jeff Forret, "William’s Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Kimberly A. Hamlin, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener" (Norton, 2020)
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp" (U of Hawaii Press, 2017)
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Jay Weiner, "Professor Berman: The Last Lecture of Minnesota’s Greatest Public Historian" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Nancy Sinkoff, "From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Alan Taylor, "Thomas Jefferson’s Education" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Elizabeth Goldring, "Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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John Hardman, "Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Larry Wolff, "Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Rebecca E. Zietlow, "The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Mort Zachter, "Red Holzman: The Life and Legacy of a Hall of Fame Basketball Coach" (Sports Publishing, 2019)
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein, "A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Sohaira Siddiqui, "Law and Politics Under the Abbasids: An Intellectual Portrait of al-Juwayni" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 21, 2020 |
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James N. Green, "Exile Within Exiles: Herbert Daniel Gay Brazilian Revolutionary" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Alistair Sponsel, "Darwin’s Evolving Identity: Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings" (FSG, 2016)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Rupert Lewis, "Marcus Garvey" (UP of West Indies, 2018)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Mario T. García, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles" (UNC Press, 2018)
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Peter J. Boettke, "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Alan Gallay, "Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Christian J. Koot, "A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake" (NYU Press, 2017)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Peter Bergamin, "The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology” (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Andrew R. M. Smith, "No Way But To Fight: George Foreman and the Business of Boxing" (U Texas Press, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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James D. Bratt, "A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Andrew Marble, "Boy on the Bridge: The Story of John Shalikashvili’s Remarkable Success" (UP of Kentucky, 2019)
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Brian Cervantez, "Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life" (U Oklahoma Press, 2019)
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Dr. Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Tobias Boes, "Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Identity Crisis: The Self-Portrait of a Thirteen-Year-Old Van Gogh
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Frederick Beiser, "Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and Day: A Novel" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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Adele Lindenmeyr, "Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Alex Lichtenstein, "Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid" (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Dec 27, 2019 |
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Reider Payne, "War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Page Publishing, 2018)
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Wilson Jeremiah Moses, "Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Asher Price, "Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Lesley Chamberlain, "Ministry of Darkness: How Sergei Uvarov Created Conservative Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Kathryn Holliday, "The Open-Ended City: David Dillon on Texas Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Malcolm Woollen, "Erik Gunnar Asplund: Landscapes and Buildings" (Routledge, 2018)
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Kathleen Sheppard, "The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman’s Work in Archaeology" (Lexington, 2017)
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Nov 29, 2019 |
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Laura K. T. Stokes, "Fanny Hensel: A Research and Information Guide" (Routledge, 2019)
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Andrew Roberts, "Leadership in War: Lessons From Those Who Made History" (Allen Lane, 2019)
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Richard F. Thomas, "Why Bob Dylan Matters" (Dey Street, 2017)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Peter Kerasotis, "Alou: My Baseball Journey" (U Nebraska Press, 2018)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Roland De Wolk, "American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford" (U California Press, 2019)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Lian Xi, "Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China" (Basic Books, 2018)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Charles Halperin, "Ivan the Terrible: Free to Reward and Free to Punish" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Richard J. Bernstein, "Why Read Hannah Arendt Now" (Polity, 2018)
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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David Hayton, "Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier" (Manchester UP, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Wendy Wickwire, "At The Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging" (UBC Press, 2019)
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Robert Mann, "Becoming Ronald Reagan: The Rise of a Conservative Icon" (Potomac Book, 2019)
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Douglas R. Egerton, "Heirs of an Honored Name: The Decline of the Adams Family and the Rise of Modern America" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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John Launer, "Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein" (Henry N. Abrams, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Paul Mendes-Flohr, "Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Noelle Giuffrida, "Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America" (U California Press, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2019 |
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John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s" (LSU Press, 2012)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Stuck on Communism: Memoir of a Russian Historian" (Northern Illinois UP, 2019)
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman" (37 Ink, 2019)
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" (Duke UP, 2016)
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Wang Gungwu, "Home is Not Here" (NUS Press, 2018)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Joseph F. O'Callaghan, "Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Elijah Millgram, "John Stuart Mill and the Meaning of Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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W. Caleb McDaniel, "Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Nicholas Buccola, "The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Brenna Wynn Greer, "Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined American Citizenship" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Lorena Oropeza, "The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Oct 22, 2019 |
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Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa" (Hurst, 2019)
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Nicole C. Kirk, "Wanamaker’s Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store" (NYU Press, 2018)
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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Kathryn E. O’Rourke, "O’Neil Ford on Architecture" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespeare" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charles V" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sara Georgini, "Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Mark Burford, "Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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Alex J. Kay, "The Making of an SS Killer: the Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert, 1905-1990" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Elizabeth D. Carney, "Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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Kate Kirkpatrick, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Sep 10, 2019 |
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Matthew Crow, "Thomas Jefferson, Legal History, and the Art of Recollection" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Luminary: The Life of a Modern Bonpo Saint" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Magazines" (U Massachusetts Press 2018)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Geoffrey Parker, "Emperor: A New Life of Charles V" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Aug 23, 2019 |
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J. C. D. Clark, "Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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David Philip Miller, "The Life and Legend of James Watt" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Andrew Wright Hurley, "Ludwig Leichhardt’s Ghosts: The Strange Career of a Traveling Myth" (Camden House, 2018)
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Aug 09, 2019 |
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Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice" (Harvard UP, 2019)
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Amy Collier Artman, "The Miracle Lady: Kathryn Kuhlman and the Transformation of Charismatic Christianity" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Ashley Robertson, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Florida: Bringing Social Justice to the Sunshine State" (The History Press, 2015)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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William F. Trimble, "John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power" (Naval Institute Press, 2019)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Courtney Pace, "Freedom Faith: The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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David Slucki, "My Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons" (Wayne State UP, 2019)
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, "This Is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines" (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
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Jul 19, 2019 |
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Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Sophia Shalmiyev, "Mother Winter: A Memoir" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Lynn Downey, "Levi Strauss: The Man Who Gave Blue Jeans to the World" (U Massachusetts Press, 2016)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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M. L. Mitma and J. P. Heilman, "Now Peru is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist" (Duke UP, 2016)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Melvin C. Johnson, "Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American West" (Greg Kofford Books, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Paul J. Croce, "Young William James Thinking" (John Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Anthony J. Badger, "Albert Gore, Sr.: A Political Life" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Pauline W. Chen, "Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality" (Vintage, 2008)
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Reema Zaman, "I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir" (Amberjack, 2019)
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Alexandra M. Nickliss, "Phoebe Apperson Hearst: A Life of Power and Politics" (Bison Books, 2018)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Shennette Garrett-Scott, "Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Anne Cushman, "The Mama Sutra: A Story of Love, Loss, and the Path of Motherhood" (Shambala, 2019)
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Sharon Kirsch, "Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2014)
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Matilda Rabinowitz, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century" (ILR Press, 2017)
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Dannel Jones, "An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor" (Hurst, 2018)
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Harvard S. Heath, "Confidence Amid Change: The Presidential Diaries of David O. McKay, 1951-1970" (Signature Books, 2019)
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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John West, "Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, Religion and Politics in Restoration England" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
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May 29, 2019 |
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Barbara K. Gold, "Perpetua: Athlete of God" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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May 29, 2019 |
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Linda M. Grasso, "Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism" (U New Mexico Press, 2017)
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May 27, 2019 |
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Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
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May 21, 2019 |
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Quincy D. Newell, "Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 21, 2019 |
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John W. Tweeddale, "John Owen and Hebrews: The Foundation of Biblical Interpretation" (T and T Clark, 2019)
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May 20, 2019 |
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Nico Slate, "Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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May 17, 2019 |
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Matthew W. King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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May 16, 2019 |
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Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder, "Reinhold Niebuhr in Theory and Practice: Christian Realism and Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century" (Lexington Books, 2018)
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May 15, 2019 |
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Harold J. Cook, "The Young Descartes: Nobility, Rumor, and War" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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May 15, 2019 |
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William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Nikolai Krementsov, "With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in Russia" (Open Book Publishers, 2018)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Joan Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watts" (New World Library, 2017)
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May 01, 2019 |
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Jeffrey S. McDonald, "John Gerstner and the Renewal of Presbyterian and Reformed Evangelicalism in Modern America" (Pickwick, 2017)
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Anne Watts, "The Collected Letters of Alan Watts" (New World Library, 2017)
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Kenneth I. Helphand, "Lawrence Halprin" (Library of American Landscape History, 2017)
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture" (Harvard Asia Center, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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René Weis, "The Real Traviata: The Song of Marie Duplessis" (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Harold Holzer, "Monument Man: The Life and Art of Daniel Chester French" (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019)
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Anand Prahlad, "The Secret Life of a Black Aspie: A Memoir" (U Alaska Press, 2017)
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Robert Matzen, "Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II" (GoodKnight Books, 2019)
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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Margaret Leslie Davis , "The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey" (TarcherPerigee, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Kelly J. Beard, "An Imperfect Rapture" (Zone 3 Press, 2018)
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Mickey and Dick Flacks, "Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Patrick Sharma, "Robert McNamara’s Other War: The World Bank and International Development" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Bruce Van Orden, "We’ll Sing and We’ll Shout: The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps" (BYU, 2018)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works" (Pantheon, 2017)
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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Kent Blansett, "A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and Red Power" (Yale UP, 2018)
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Richard Drake, "Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism" (Cornell UP, 2018)
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Mar 12, 2019 |
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Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Ronald L. Lewis and Robert L. Zangrando, "Walter F. White: The NAACP’s Ambassador for Racial Justice" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Robin Wallace, "Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery" (UChicago Press, 2018)
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Mark T. Calhoun, "General Lesley J. McNair: Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army" (UP of Kansas, 2018)
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Jan 18, 2019 |
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Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Andrew R. Murphy, "William Penn: A Life" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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David Dayen, "Fat Cat: The Steve Mnuchin Story" (Strong Arm Press, 2018)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Nicholas Bauch, "Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Enterprise" (U California Press, 2017)
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Joe Jackson, "Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary" (Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2016)
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Lindsey Fitzharris, "The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine" (Scientific American, 2017)
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Jan 07, 2019 |
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Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely" (Other Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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R. David Cox, "The Religious Life of Robert E. Lee" (Eerdmans, 2017)
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Dec 14, 2018 |
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James R. Rush, "Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Andrew Roberts, "Churchill: Walking With Destiny" (Viking, 2018)
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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Patricia O'Toole, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made" (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
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Dec 10, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Diarmaid MacCulloch, "Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life" (Viking, 2018)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Alec Nevala-Lee, "Astounding" (Dey Street Books, 2018)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Peter Zinoman, “Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung” (U California Press, 2013)
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Jonathon Earle, “Colonial Buganda and the End of Empire: Political Thought and Historical Imagination in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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Howard W. Rosenberg, “Ty Cobb Unleashed: The Definitive Counter-Biography of the Chastened Racist” (Tile Books, 2018)
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Patrick Fuliang Shan, “Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal” (UBC Press, 2018)
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Sue Prideaux, “I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche” (Tim Duggan Books, 2018)
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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Roland Philipps, “A Spy Named Orphan: the Enigma of Donald Maclean” (W.W. Norton, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Kathryn Fuller-Seeley, “Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy” (U California Press, 2017)
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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David Pietrusza, “TR’s Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy” (Lyons Press, 2018)
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Paul Bjerk, “Julius Nyerere” (Ohio University Press, 2017)
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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David Stuttard, “Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Oct 05, 2018 |
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Ruth Gamble, “Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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William Anthony Hay, “Lord Liverpool: A Political Life” (Boydell Press, 2018)
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Brian D. Laslie, “Architect of Air Power: General Laurence S. Kuter and the Birth of the U.S. Air Force” (UP of Kentucky, 2017.
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Sep 14, 2018 |
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Jonathan W. White, “Lincoln on Law, Leadership, and Life” (Cumberland House, 2015)
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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Seymour M. Hersh, “Reporter: A Memoir” (Knopf, 2018)
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Marc Leeds, “The Vonnegut Encyclopedia” (Delacorte Press, 2016)
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Richard A. Billows, “Before and After Alexander: The Legend and Legacy of Alexander the Great” (The Overlook Press, 2018)
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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Brian Abrams, “Obama: An Oral History, 2009-2017” (Little A, 2018)
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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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)
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Bob Brody, “Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age” (Heliotrope Books, 2017)
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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Duane W. Roller, “Cleopatra’s Daughter: And Other Royal Women of the Augustan Era” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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Vanessa Valdés, “Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg” (SUNY Press, 2018)
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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Joanna M. Williams, “Manchester’s Radical Mayor: Abel Heywood, The Man Who Built the Town Hall” (The History Press, 2017)
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Jul 31, 2018 |
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Mirjam Zadoff, “Werner Scholem: A German Life” (U Penn Press, 2018)
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Jul 23, 2018 |
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John Mackay, “The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West” (Scribner, 2018)
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Phil Proctor and Brad Shreiber, “Where’s my Fortune Cookie?” (Blurb, 2017)
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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Robert Dallek, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life” (Viking, 2017)
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Frank L. Holt, “The Treasures of Alexander the Great: How One Man’s Wealth Shaped the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Roger Biles, “Mayor Harold Washington: Champion of Race and Reform in Chicago” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Simon Kerry, “Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig” (Unicorn Publishing Group, 2018).
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Denise Von Glahn, “Libby Larsen: Composing an American Life” (U Illinois Press,
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Natalie Robins, “The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling” (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Jun 22, 2018 |
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Victor Li, “Nixon in New York: How Wall Street Helped Richard Nixon Win the White House” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2018)
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Hans-Lukas Kieser, “Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jacqueline Jones, “Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” (Basic Books, 2017)
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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William E. Ellis, “Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist” (UP of Kentucky, 2017)
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Lisa Walters, “Margaret Cavendish: Gender, Science, and Politics” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Ronald P. Loftus, “The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)” (Association for Asian Studies, 2017)
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Jun 08, 2018 |
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Albert Gurganus, “Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life” (Camden House, 2018)
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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Halifu Osumare, “Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir” (UP of Florida, 2018)
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Mark I. Lurie, “Galantière: The Lost Generation’s Forgotten Man” (Overlook Press, 2018)
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May 30, 2018 |
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Jonathan Boff, “Haig’s Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany’s War on the Western Front” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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May 28, 2018 |
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Jenny Coleman, “Polly Plum: A Firm and Earnest Woman’s Advocate, Mary Ann Colclough, 1836–1885” (Otago UP, 2017)
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May 25, 2018 |
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Ethan L. Menchinger, “The First of the Modern Ottomans: The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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May 22, 2018 |
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Gillian B. Fleming, “Juana I: Legitimacy and Conflict in Sixteenth-Century Castile” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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May 17, 2018 |
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Colin G. Calloway, “The Indian World of George Washington” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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May 07, 2018 |
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Jason Linkins, “Schoolhouse Wreck: The Betsy DeVos Story” (Strong Arm Press, 2018)
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May 07, 2018 |
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Steven L. Ossad, “Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General, 1893-1981” (University of Missouri Press, 2017)
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May 04, 2018 |
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Catherine Layton, “The Life and Times of Mary, Dowager Duchess of Sutherland” (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018)
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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Alison B. Hirsch, “City Choreographer: Lawrence Halprin in Urban Renewal America” (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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Joshua Parens, “Leo Strauss and the Recovery of Medieval Political Philosophy” (U Rochester Press, 2016)
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Max Boot, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam” (Liveright, 2018)
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Apr 13, 2018 |
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Kimberly A. Francis, “Teaching Stravinsky: Nadia Boulanger and the Consecration of a Modernist Icon” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Katrin Paehler, “The Third Reich’s Intelligence Service: The Career of Walter Schellenberg” (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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June Purvis, “Christabel Pankhurst: A Biography” (Routledge, 2018)
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Thomas Weber, “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi” (Basic Books, 2017)
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Bonnie Anderson, “The Rabbi’s Atheist Daughter: Ernestine Rose, International Feminist Pioneer” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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Sandra E. Greene, “Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Alexander Orwin, “Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi” (U Penn Press, 2017)
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Jean R. Freedman, “Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Sterling Murray, “The Career of an Eighteenth-Century Kapellmeister: The Life and Music of Antonio Rosetti” (U Rochester Press, 2014)
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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David Weinstein, “The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics” (Brandeis UP, 2017)
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Daniel B. Schwartz, “The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image” (Princeton UP, 2012)
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Mar 02, 2018 |
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Saladin Ambar, “American Cicero: Mario Cuomo and the Defense of American Liberalism” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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Jeffrey Stewart, “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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Jennifer Frost, “Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism and the Cold War” (UP of Kansas, 2017)
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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James Delbourgo, “Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane” (Allen Lane, 2017)
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Feb 09, 2018 |
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Brian Jenkins, “Lord Lyons: A Diplomat in an Age of Nationalism and War” (McGill-Queens UP, 2014)
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Peter Hempenstall, “Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War over Cultural Anthropology” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Kyle Longley, “LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Jan 31, 2018 |
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Michael Patrick Cullinane, “Theodore Roosevelts Ghost: The History and Memory of an American Icon” (LSU Press, 2017)
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Jan 26, 2018 |
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Noam Zadoff, “Gershom Scholem: From Berlin to Jerusalem and Back” (Brandeis UP, 2018)
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Hendrik Meijer, “Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century” (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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Richard Carwardine, “Lincoln’s Sense of Humor” (Southern Illinois UP, 2017)
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Crawford Gribben, “John Owen and English Puritanism: Experiences of Defeat” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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Vanya E. Bellinger, “Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, “Jonas Salk: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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Scott Kaufman, “Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford” (University Press of Kansas, 2017)
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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Brett L. Abrams, “Terry Bradshaw: From Super Bowl Champion to Television Personality” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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Bob Batchelor, “Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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Joshua Rubenstein, “The Last Days of Stalin” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Paul Magid, “The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2015)
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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Nikki M. Taylor, “Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio” (Ohio U. Press, 2016)
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Stephen F. Williams, “The Reformer: How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian Revolution” (Encounter Books, 2017)
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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Laura E. Smith, “Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity” (U. Nebraska Press, 2016)
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Vanda Krefft, “The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox” (Harper, 2017)
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Joseph Lelyveld, “His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt” (Vintage Books, 2016)
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Nov 12, 2017 |
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Drew Lopenzina, “Through an Indian’s Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot” (U. Mass Press, 2017)
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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Anthony Chaney, “Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Adi Gordon, “Toward Nationalism’s End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn” (Brandeis UP, 2017)
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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Marie Alohalani Brown, “Facing the Spears of Change: The Life and Legacy of John Papa Ii” (U. Hawaii Press, 2016)
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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William J. Cooper, “The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics” (Liveright, 2017)
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Laura Lee, “Oscar’s Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy” (Amberley, 2017)
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Marion Deshmukh, “Max Liebermann: Modern Art and Modern Germany” (Routledge, 2015)
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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Robert W. Cherny, “Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
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Oct 04, 2017 |
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Barry W. Holtz, “Rabbi Akiva: Sage of the Talmud” (Yale UP, 2017)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Deanne Stillman, “Blood Brothers: The Story of the Strange Friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill” (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Paige Bowers, “The General’s Niece: The Little-Known de Gaulle Who Fought to Free Occupied France” (Chicago Review Press, 2017)
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Was Presidential Leadership Decisive in Determining the Outcome of the Civil War?
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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Joanna Dee Das, “Katherine Dunham: Dance and the African Diaspora” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Tracy A. Thomas, “Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law” (NYU Press, 2016)
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Sep 06, 2017 |
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Tamara Plakins Thornton, “Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American Life” (UNC Press, 2016)
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Aug 27, 2017 |
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T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Aug 26, 2017 |
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Mitch Kachun, “First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 23, 2017 |
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Marcia Walker-McWilliams, “Reverend Addie: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality (U. Illinois Press, 2016)
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Rosalind Rosenberg, “Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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Joyce Salisbury, “Rome’s Christian Empress: Galla Placidia Rules at the Twilight of the Empire” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2015)
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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Naoko Wake, “Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism” (Rutgers UP, 2011)
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Elias Sacks, “Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script: Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Jul 31, 2017 |
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Kief Hillsbery, “Empire Made: My Search for an Outlaw Uncle Who Vanished in British India” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017)
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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Jon Kukla, “Patrick Henry: Champion of Liberty” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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Peter Eisner, “MacArthur’s Spies: The Solider, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in WWII” (Viking, 2017)
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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Leigh Fought, “Women in the World of Frederick Douglass” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 16, 2017 |
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Patrick N. Hunt, “Hannibal” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Geoffrey D. Claussen, “Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar” (SUNY Press, 2015)
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Allan H. Pasco, “Balzac, Literary Sociologist” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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Michael J. Hogan, “The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Biography” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Mitchell Stephens, “The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism” (St. Martin’s, 2017)
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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David Kushner, “Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D” (Nation Books, 2017)
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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Michael Witwer, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Brad Gooch, “Rumi’s Secret: The Life of the Sufi Poet of Love” (Harper, 2017)
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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William Walsh, “Forty-Four American Boys: Short Histories of Presidential Childhoods” (Outpost19, 2017)
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Jun 04, 2017 |
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Bruce D. Haynes and Syma Solovitch, “Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family” (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Jun 02, 2017 |
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Susan Rubenstein DeMasi, “Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force Behind the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project” (McFarland, 2016)
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Michael J. Turner” Radicalism and Reputation: The Career of Bronterre O’Brien” (Michigan State UP, 2017)
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May 31, 2017 |
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Clyde Farnsworth, “Tangled Bylines: A Father and Son Cover the Twentieth Century” (U. Missouri Press, 2017)
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May 31, 2017 |
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Paul Youngquist, “A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism” (U. Texas Press, 2016)
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May 27, 2017 |
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John Bohrer, “The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest after JFK” (Bloomsbury, 2017)
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May 25, 2017 |
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Patrick J. Hayes, “The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist” (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2016)
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May 23, 2017 |
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Linda Heywood, “Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen” (Harvard University Press, 2017)
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May 19, 2017 |
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Amir Engel, “Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography” (U. Chicago Press, 2017)
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May 15, 2017 |
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Tara H. Abraham, “Rebel Genius: Warren S. McCulloch’s Transdisciplinary Life in Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
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May 11, 2017 |
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Rebe Taylor, “Into the Heart of Tasmania: A Search For Human Antiquity” (Melbourne UP, 2017)
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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Sarah Bracey White, “Primary Lessons: A Memoir” (CavanKerry Press, 2013)
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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Tania Munz, “The Dancing Bees: Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language” (U of Chicago Press, 2016)
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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William Kolbrener, “The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Kathleen Collins, “Dr. Joyce Brothers: The Founding Mother of TV Psychology” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
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Apr 22, 2017 |
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Steven M. Avella, “Charles K. McClatchy and the Golden Era of American Journalism” (U. Missouri Press, 2016)
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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Dean Kotlowski, “Paul V. McNutt and the Age of FDR” (Indiana UP, 2015)
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Apr 02, 2017 |
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Holly Hurlburt, “Daughter of Venice: Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance” (Yale UP, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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James McGrath Morris, “Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press” (Amistad, Reprint Edition, 2017)
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Mar 22, 2017 |
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Stephen H. Grant, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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Garrison Nelson, “John William McCormack: A Political Biography” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Damion Searls, “The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing” (Crown, 2017)
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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Leilah Danielson, “American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century” (U. Penn Press, 2014)
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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David Curtis Skaggs, “William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812” (JHU Press, 2014)
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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Richard Etulain, “The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2014)
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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Richard Crockatt, “Einstein and Twentieth-Century Politics: A Salutary Moral Influence,” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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Steve Tripp, “Ty Cobb, Baseball, and American Manhood” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Alexandra Deutsch, “A Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte” (Maryland Historical Society, 2016)
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Jan 21, 2017 |
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Tim Brady, “His Father’s Son: The Life of General Ted Roosevelt, Jr.” (NAL, 2017)
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Helen Rappaport, “Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen” (Harper Design, 2017)
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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Paul McKenzie-Jones, “Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power” (U. Oklahoma Press, 2015)
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Melissa Sweet, “Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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David Shafer, “Antonin Artaud” (Reaktion/U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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Owen McGee, “Arthur Griffith” (Merrion Press, 2015)
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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Matt Houlbrook, “Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook” (U. of Chicago Press 2016)
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Bill V. Mullen, “W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line,” (Pluto Press, 2016)
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Dec 17, 2016 |
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Jane Eppinga, “Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point’s First Black Graduate” (Wild Horse Press, 2015)
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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Jeremy Adelman, “Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman” (Princeton UP, 2013)
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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Colin Holmes, “Searching for Lord Haw-Haw: The Political Lives of William Joyce” (Routledge, 2016)
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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Scott Donaldson, “The Impossible Craft” Literary Biography” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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Michelle Markel, “Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead/Brave Girl” (Balzer + Bray, 2016,2013)
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Daniel Moran,”Creating Flannery O’Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers” (U. of Georgia Press, 2016)
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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James D. Boys, “Hillary Rising: The Politics, Persona, and Policies of a New American Dynasty” (Biteback Publishing, 2016)
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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John Bew, “Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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Claudia Kalb, “Andy Warhol was a Hoarder: Inside the Mind of History’s Great Personalities” (Natl Geographic, 2016)
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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Robert Matzen, “Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe” (GoodKnight Books, 2016)
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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April Dammann, “Corita Kent: Art and Soul: The Biography” (Angel City Press, 2015)
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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Debbie Levy, “I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark” (Simon and Schuster, 2016)
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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Thomas Aiello, “The Battle for the Souls of Black Folk: W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and the Debate that Shaped the Course of Civil Rights” (ABC-CLIO, 2016)
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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Gail Hornstein, “To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann” (Other Books, 2005)
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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Richard Bourke, “Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke” (Princeton UP, 2015)
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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Marc Raboy, “Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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James Carl Nelson, “I Will Hold: The Story of USMC Legend Clifton B. Cates, From Belleau Wood to Victory in the Great War” (NAL, 2016)
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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Liam Brockey, “The Visitor: Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Sep 11, 2016 |
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Loki Mulholland, et.al. “She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland” (Shadow Mountain, 2016)
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Matthew Pierce, “Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shiism” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Sep 07, 2016 |
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Ellen Fitzpatrick, “The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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Charles Strozier, “Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln: The Enduring Friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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Carol McCabe Booker, ed. “Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan” (U. of Georgia Press, 2015)
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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Robert K. Elder, et. al. “Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park” (Kent State UP, 2016)
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Aug 29, 2016 |
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Carol Gignoux, “Your Innovator Brain: The Truth About ADHD” (Balboa Press, 2016)
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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Anne Mac Lellan, “Dorothy Stopford Price: Rebel Doctor” (Irish Academic Press, 2014)
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Stephen Lee Naish, “Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper” (Amsterdam UP, 2016)
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey, “Emperor Huizong” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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William S. Belko, “Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s Court” (U. of Alabama Press, 2016)
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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Richard L. Davis, “From Warhorses to Ploughshares: The Later Tang Reign of Emperor Mingzong” (Hong Kong UP, 2015)
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Aug 17, 2016 |
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Robert O’Kell, “Disraeli: The Romance of Politics” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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John Freed, “Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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James K. Libbey, “Alben Barkley: A Life in Politics” (U. Press of Kentucky, 2016)
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Jul 13, 2016 |
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Dermot Meleady, “John Redmond: The National Leader” (Merrion Press, 2014)
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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Reza Zarghamee, “Discovering Cyrus: The Persian Conqueror Astride the Ancient World” (Mage Pub, 2013)
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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Jessa Crispin, “The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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Norman L. Macht, “The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956” (U. of Nebraska Press, 2015)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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David Potter, “Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jun 26, 2016 |
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Marlene Trestman, “Fair Labor Lawyer: The Remarkable Life of New Deal Attorney and Supreme Court Advocate Bessie Margolin” (Louisiana State UP, 2016)
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Jun 26, 2016 |
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Thomas Knock, “Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovern” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Jun 19, 2016 |
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Ed Berlin, “King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Jun 15, 2016 |
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Steve Kemper, “A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham” (W. W. Norton, 2016)
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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Roger Daniels, “Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939” (U Illinois Press, 2015)
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Brooke Hauser, “Enter Helen: The Invention of Helen Gurley Brown and the Rise of the Modern Single Woman”
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May 20, 2016 |
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Mel Scult, “The Radical American Judaism of Mordecai M. Kaplan” (Indiana UP, 2013)
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May 16, 2016 |
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Michael Broer, “Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny” (Pegasus, 2015)
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May 13, 2016 |
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Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)
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May 04, 2016 |
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Peter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
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Apr 30, 2016 |
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Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016)
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Shai Held, “Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence” (Indiana UP, 2013)
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Feb 16, 2016 |
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Julie Des Jardins, “Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
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Feb 06, 2016 |
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Sarah Maza, “Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris” (U. of California Press, 2012)
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Dec 18, 2015 |
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John Allen Paulos, “A Numerate Life” (Prometheus Books, 2015)
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Nov 12, 2015 |
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Megan Marshall, “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Mariner Books, 2013)
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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James E. Strick, “Wilhelm Reich, Biologist” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Oct 06, 2015 |
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Minghui Hu, “China’s Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen” (U of Washington Press, 2015)
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Sep 15, 2015 |
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Kecia Ali, “The Lives of Muhammad” (Harvard UP, 2014)
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Aug 25, 2015 |
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Daisy Hay, “Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015)
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Jul 25, 2015 |
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Donald Dewey, “Lee J. Cobb: Characters of an Actor” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Sally G. McMillen, “Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
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Jun 14, 2015 |
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Meryle Secrest, “Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography” (Knopf, 2014)
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Michael Leggiere, “Blucher: Scourge of Napoleon” (U Oklahoma Press, 2014)
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May 01, 2015 |
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Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
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Apr 28, 2015 |
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Nick Wilding, "Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge" (U Chicago Press, 2014)
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Mar 16, 2015 |
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Nick Wilding, “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge” (U Chicago Press, 2014)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Justin Martin, “Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians” (Da Capo Press, 2014)
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Mar 10, 2015 |
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Alina Garcia-Lapuerta, “La Belle Creole” (Chicago Review Press, 2014)
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Feb 18, 2015 |
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Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, “Patrice Lumumba” (Ohio University Press, 2014)
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Feb 02, 2015 |
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James Mace Ward, “Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia” (Cornell UP, 2013)
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Dec 25, 2014 |
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S. Duncan Reid, “Cal Tjader: The Life and Recordings of the Man Who Revolutionized Latin Jazz” (McFarland, 2013)
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Dec 18, 2014 |
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Janet Sims-Wood, “Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University” (The History Press, 2014)
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Oct 15, 2014 |
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Ernest Harsch, “Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary” (Ohio UP, 2014)
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Oct 10, 2014 |
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Rebecca Rogers, “A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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Karen Abbott, “Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War” (Harper, 2014)
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Sep 08, 2014 |
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Melanie C. Hawthorne, "Finding the Woman Who Didn't Exist: The Curious Life of Gisele d'Estoc" (U Nebraska Press, 2014)
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Aug 11, 2014 |
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Adam Phillips, “Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst” (Yale UP, 2014)
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Jul 28, 2014 |
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James Carter, “Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Jun 11, 2014 |
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Tina Santi Flaherty, “What Jackie Taught Us” (Perigree Paperback, 2014)
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May 20, 2014 |
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Donna-Lee Frieze, “Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin” (Yale UP, 2013)
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May 01, 2014 |
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett, “Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer, and Preacher of War” (Knopf, 2013)
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Apr 27, 2014 |
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Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, “HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton” (Crown Publishers, 2014).
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Apr 07, 2014 |
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Will Swift, “Pat and Dick: The Nixons, an Intimate Portrait of a Marriage” (Threshold Editions, 2014)
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Mar 05, 2014 |
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Timothy Shenk, “Maurice Dobb: Political Economist” (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013)
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Feb 22, 2014 |
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Robert Neer, “Napalm: An American Biography” (Harvard UP, 2013)
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Feb 13, 2014 |
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Michael O’Brien, ed., “The Letters of C. Vann Woodward” (Yale UP, 2013)
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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Adam Henig, “Alex Haley’s Roots: An Author’s Odyssey” (2014)
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Feb 05, 2014 |
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Patricia Ebrey, “Emperor Huizong” (Harvard University Press, 2014)
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Feb 03, 2014 |
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Lauren Coodley, “Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual” (University of Nebraska Press, 2013)
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Feb 01, 2014 |
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Clare Mulley, “The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville” (St. Martin’s, 2013)
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Jan 31, 2014 |
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Xolela Mangcu, “Biko: A Life” (Tauris, 2013)
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Jan 25, 2014 |
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Neil McKenna, “Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England” (Faber & Faber, 2013)
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Jan 10, 2014 |
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Lawrence J. Friedman, “The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet” (Columbia UP, 2013)
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Jan 02, 2014 |
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Brian Jay Jones, “Jim Henson: The Biography” (Ballantine Books, 2013)
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Dec 06, 2013 |
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Thurston Clarke, “JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President”
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Nov 22, 2013 |
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Peter Savodnik, “The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union” (Basic Books, 2013)
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Nov 21, 2013 |
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Mark R. Cheathem, “Andrew Jackson, Southerner” (Louisiana State University Press, 2013)
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Nov 16, 2013 |
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Jeremy Dauber, “The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem” (Schocken, 2013)
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Nov 08, 2013 |
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Elizabeth Winder, “Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953” (Harper, 2013)
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Oct 18, 2013 |
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Steven Usitalo, “The Invention of Mikhail Lomonosov: A Russian National Myth” (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
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Oct 13, 2013 |
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Sarah Churchwell, “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of the Great Gatsby” (Virago, 2013)
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Sep 19, 2013 |
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Kees Boterbloem, “Moderniser of Russia: Andrei Vinius, 1641-1716” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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Sep 07, 2013 |
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Reza Aslan, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” (Random House, 2013)
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, “Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte: An American Aristocrat in the Early Republic” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
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Aug 10, 2013 |
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Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite, “Murder in the Metro: Laetitia Toureaux and the Cagoule in 1930s France” (LSU Press, 2013)
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Jul 31, 2013 |
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Robert Gerwarth, “Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich” (Yale UP, 2012)
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Jul 24, 2013 |
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Amanda MacKenzie Stuart, “Empress of Fashion: Diana Vreeland, A Life”
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Jun 26, 2013 |
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Logan Beirne, “Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency” (Encounter Books, 2013)
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Jun 14, 2013 |
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Michael Burlingame, “Abraham Lincoln: A Life” (Paperback; Johns Hopkins UP, 2013)
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Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jonathan Rauch, “Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul” (The Atlantic Books, 2013)
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Jun 07, 2013 |
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Kathryn Livingston, “Lilly: Palm Beach, Tropical Glamour, and the Birth of a Fashion Legend” (Wiley, 2012)
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Jun 02, 2013 |
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John E. Joseph, “Saussure” (Oxford UP, 2012)
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May 20, 2013 |
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, “Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted” (Simon & Schuster, 2013)
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Apr 30, 2013 |
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Lisa Chaney, “Coco Chanel: An Intimate Life”
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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Carl Rollyson, “Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews” (University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
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Feb 15, 2013 |
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Lois Rudnick, “The Suppressed Memoirs of Mabel Dodge Luhan” (University of New Mexico Press, 2012)
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Jan 29, 2013 |
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Chip Bishop, “The Lion and the Journalist: The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop” (Lyons Press, 2011)
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Jan 15, 2013 |
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Bob Spitz, “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child” (Knopf, 2012)
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Nov 14, 2012 |
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Jean Zimmerman, “Love, Fiercely: A Gilded Age Romance” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
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Nov 01, 2012 |
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Cory MacLauchlin, “Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces” (Da Capo, 2012)
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Paul Gutjahr, “Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Aug 11, 2012 |
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Dave Oliphant, “KD: A Jazz Biography” (Wings Press, 2012)
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Aug 10, 2012 |
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Kate Buford, “Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe” (Bison Books, 2012)
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Aug 01, 2012 |
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Anne Sebba, “That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor” (St. Martin’s Press, 2012)
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Jul 17, 2012 |
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Elizabeth Goldsmith, “The King’s Mistresses” (PublicAffairs, 2012)
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Nancy Hargrove, “T.S. Eliot’s Parisian Year” (University of Florida Press, 2010)
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Jun 15, 2012 |
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Sally Bedell Smith, “Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch” (Random House, 2012)
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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Gregory McNamee, “The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian” (University of Arizona Press, 2012)
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May 23, 2012 |
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Kathryn Lofton, “Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon” (University of California Press, 2011)
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May 17, 2012 |
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Ellen F. Brown and John Wiley, Jr., “Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind” (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011)
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May 15, 2012 |
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Manning Marable, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” (Penguin, 2011)
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May 01, 2012 |
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Paul Dickson, “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick” (Walker & Company, 2012)
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Robert K. Fitts, “Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, and Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan” (University of Nebraska Press, 2012)
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Leslie Brody, “Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford” (Counterpoint Press, 2010)
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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Karen Abbott, “American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee” (Random House, 2012)
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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William Kuhn, “Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books” (Anchor Books, 2011)
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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Robert F. Barsky and Noam Chomsky, “Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism” (MIT Press, 2011)
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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Carolyn Burke, “No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf” (Knopf, 2011)
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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John Bloom, “There You Have It: The Life, Legacy, and Legend of Howard Cosell” (University of Massachusetts Press, 2010)
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Mia Bay, “To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells” (Hill and Wang, 2009)
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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Vincent Carretta, “Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” (University of Georgia Press, 2011)
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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Amanda Smith, “Newspaper Titan: The Infamous Life and Monumental Times of Cissy Patterson” (Knopf, 2011)
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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Adrian Burgos, Jr., “Cuban Star: How One Negro-League Owner Changed the Face of Baseball” (Hill and Wang, 2011)
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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Randy Roberts, “Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” (Yale UP, 2010)
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Jean H. Baker, “Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion” (Hill and Wang, 2011)
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Dec 22, 2011 |
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Stacy Schiff, “Cleopatra: A Life” (Back Bay Books, 2011)
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Dec 07, 2011 |
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Frank Wcislo, “Tales of Imperial Russia: The Life and Times of Sergei Witte, 1849-1915” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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Dec 02, 2011 |
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Kitty Kelley, “Oprah: A Biography” (Three Rivers Press, 2011)
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Nov 15, 2011 |
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Ronald Reng, “A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke” (Yellow Jersey Press, 2011)
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Nov 11, 2011 |
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Charles J. Shields, “And So It Goes. Kurt Vonnegut, A Life” (Henry Holt, 2011)
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Nov 09, 2011 |
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Rosamund Bartlett, “Tolstoy: A Russia Life” (Houghton Mifflin, 2011)
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Nov 04, 2011 |
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Alan Nadel, “August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle” (University of Iowa Press, 2010)
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May 30, 2011 |
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Jonathan Steinberg, “Bismarck: A Life” (Oxford UP, 2011)
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May 24, 2011 |
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Megan Marshall, “The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism” (Houghton Mifflin, 2005)
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Apr 15, 2011 |
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Carol Bundy, “The Nature of Sacrifice: A Biography of Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., 1835-64” (FSG, 2005)
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Apr 08, 2011 |
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Benjamin Binstock, “Vermeer’s Family Secrets: Genius, Discovery, and the Unknown Apprentice” (Routledge, 2009)
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Mar 09, 2011 |
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J. Arch Getty, “Ezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s Iron Fist” (Yale UP, 2008)
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Feb 23, 2011 |
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Catherine Epstein, “Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Jan 27, 2011 |
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Thomas Weber, “Hitler’s First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Dec 03, 2010 |
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Abbott Gleason, “A Liberal Education” (TidePool Press, 2010)
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Oct 28, 2010 |
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Aram Goudsouzian, “King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution” (University of California, 2010)
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Oct 12, 2010 |
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Thomas Kessner, “The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh & the Rise of American Aviation” (Oxford UP, 2010)
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Sep 15, 2010 |
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Ruth Harris, “Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century” (Henry Holt, 2010)
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Jun 17, 2010 |
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Nicholas Thompson, “The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War” (Henry Holt, 2010)
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Feb 18, 2010 |
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Jennifer Burns, “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right” (Oxford UP, 2009)
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Oct 09, 2009 |
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Matthew Algeo, “Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip” (Chicago Review Press, 2009)
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May 23, 2009 |
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James Mann, “The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War” (Viking, 2009)
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Mar 20, 2009 |
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Kees Boterbloem, “The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys: A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter” (Palgrave-McMillan, 2008)
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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Simon Morrison, “The People’s Artist: Prokofiev’s Soviet Years” (Oxford UP, 2009)
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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Donald Worster, “A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir” (Oxford UP, 2008)
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Dec 05, 2008 |
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Joyce Tyldesley, “Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt” (Basic Books, 2008)
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Sep 05, 2008 |
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Timothy Snyder, “The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of A Habsburg Archduke” (Basic Books, 2008)
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Jul 03, 2008 |
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Colin Grant, “Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey” (Oxford UP, 2008)
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Jun 13, 2008 |
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Abigail Foerstner, “James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles” (University of Iowa Press, 2007)
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Feb 27, 2008 |