November 14th, 2025
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television, published by Simon and Schuster in June 2025, is the latest book by this veteran journalist and author. Purdum also authored
Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution and
An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In a career spanning more than forty years, Purdum has written extensively about politics and culture, beginning at …
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October 24th, 2025
This historian and author’s latest book,
Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2024. Her other books include the award-winning
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, and the co-edited
Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Chervinsky currently serves as
Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library, and she was a historian at…
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June 20th, 2025
This journalist, historian, and Vietnam War veteran is the author of eleven books. His most recent book,
The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW’s Story of Courage and Resilience in the Hanoi Hilton, was published by Stackpole Press in December 2024. Leepson’s
Ballad of the Green Beret: The Life and Wars of Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler was the first biography of the former Green Beret sergeant who wrote and sang “The Ballad of…
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May 30th, 2025
In
Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers, published by Signature Books in February 2025, this longtime
Boston Globe columnist and author takes readers on a brisk and riveting journey through Stegner’s life and complicated legacy. As one of the most distinguished chroniclers of the American West, Stegner wrote fourteen novels and seventeen works of nonfiction during a career that spanned half a century. Alex Beam has written two novels and seven works of nonfiction,…
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May 16th, 2025
In this special episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, National Humanities Medal recipient, and New York University history professor emeritus
David Levering Lewis discusses his latest book—a sweeping exploration of his own family history.
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story: 1790-1958 was published by Penguin Random House in February 2025. Lewis received Pulitzers for his W. E. B. Du Bois biographies, and his extraordinary body of work, including 11 books, has been…
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December 20th, 2024
This historian, best-selling author and foreign-policy analyst talks about his latest book,
Reagan: His Life and Legend. Published by Liveright in September 2024, this biography was recognized as one of the Ten Best Books of this year by
The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and the
Economist. Boot’s previous biography,
The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam, also was a
New York Times…
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December 16th, 2024
This journalist’s co-authored and Pulitzer Prize winning biography,
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, served as the inspiration for the Oscar winning film,
Oppenheimer. Bird has written several critically acclaimed biographies, including
The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms;
The Chairman: John J. McCloy and the Making of the American Establishment;
The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames;…
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November 29th, 2024
This veteran author and Rutgers University journalism professor speaks with BIO member Kevin McGruder about his latest book,
John Lewis: A Life. It was published by Simon and Schuster in October 2024 and supported by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Greenberg’s previous books include
Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image and
Republic …
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