In Stores Now, February 2024
Carson McCullers: A Life
by Mary V. Dearborn
(Knopf)
Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
by Barbara Weisberg
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
by Virginia McGee Butler
(University Press of Mississippi)
Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
by Joy-Ann Reid
(Mariner Books)
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
by Allen C. Guelzo
(Knopf)
Kubrick: An Odyssey
by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams
(Pegasus Books)
The Story of The Bee Gees: Children of the World
by Bob Stanley
(Pegasus Books)
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
by Donald J. Robertson
(Yale University Press)
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House
by Jared Cohen
(Simon & Schuster)
Churchill’s American Network: Winston Churchill and the Forging of the Special Relationship
by Cita Stelzer
(Pegasus Books)
The Search for Reagan: The Appealing Intellectual Conservatism of Ronald Reagan
by Craig Shirley
(Post Hill Press)
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
by Jeffrey Rosen
(Simon & Schuster)
The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork
by Noah Charney
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration
by Harold Holzer
(Dutton)
Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon
by Joel Selvin
(Diversion Books)
A Revolutionary Friendship: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Republic
by Francis D. Cogliano
(Harvard University Press)
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair
by Maurice Samuels
(Yale University Press)
The First Lady of Dirt: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Racing Pioneer Cheryl Glass
Bill Poehler
(Rowman & Littlefield)
The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power
by Nicholas A. Lambert
(Naval Institute Press)
Calvin Peete: Golf’s Forgotten Star
by Gordon Hobson
(Rowman & Littlefield)
James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist
by Michael L. Thurmond
(University of Georgia Press)
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor (Frederick Rutland)
by Ronald Drabkin
(William Morrow)
Henry VIII’s True Daughter: Catherine Carey, A Tudor Life
by Wendy J. Dunn
(Pen and Sword History)
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America
by James Traub
(Basic Books)
Young Elizabeth: Elizabeth I and Her Perilous Path to the Crown
by Nicola Tallis
(Pegasus Books)
The Doctor Was A Woman: Stories of the First Female Physicians on the Frontier
by Chris Enss
(TwoDot)
Roberto Alomar: The Complicated Life and Legacy of a Baseball Hall of Famer
by David Ostrowsky
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
by Andrew Stauffer
(Cambridge University Press)
An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
(Juggernaut)
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday’s Last Year
by Paul Alexander
(Knopf)
Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him (Luis Alberto Quiñonez)
by Laurence Ralph
(Grand Central Publishing)
Jockey Queen: Lillian Jenkinson Holder, Horse Racing’s Fearless Lady
by Roger Peach
(Rowman & Littlefield)
The Grandfather of Black Basketball: The Life and Times of Dr. E. B. Henderson
by Edwin B. Henderson II
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Men of No Reputation: Robert Boatright, the Buckfoot Gang, and the Fleecing of Middle America
by Kimberly Harper
(University of Arkansas Press)
James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist
by Jeffrey Meyers
(LSU Press)
American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden
by Katie Rogers
(Crown)
I Never Did Like Politics: How Fiorello La Guardia Became America’s Mayor, and Why He Still Matters
by Terry Golway
(St. Martin’s Press)
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary
by Andrew Drummond
(Verso)
Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life of Dorothea Tanning
by Amy Lyford
(Reaktion Books)
Emlen Tunnell: The Charismatic Life of a War Hero and NFL Legend
by David Lyons
(Temple University Press)
Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
by Ruby Lal
(Yale University Press)
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
by Audrey Golden
(White Rabbit)
Novak Djokovic: The Greatest of All Time
by Dominic Bliss
(Ivy Press)
The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages
by J. F. Andrews
(The History Press)
Sir Garnet Wolseley: Soldier of Empire
by Stephen Manning
(Pen and Sword Military)
James Joyce: A Life
by Gabrielle Carey
(Arden)
Peter of Savoy: The Little Charlemagne
by John Marshall
(Pen and Sword History)
Christ My Only Hope: The Life Story of Yamuragiye Cyprien
by Caroll Marr
(Xulon Press)
The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton
by Edward Abel Smith
(Pen and Sword History)
The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II
by Ian Lloyd
(The History Press)
Muhammad Ali: A Humanitarian Life
by Margueritte Shelton
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Keynes In Action: Truth and Expediency in Public Policy (John Maynard Keynes)
by Peter Clarke
(Cambridge University Press)
Bridging Revolutions: The Lives of Chief Justices Richmond Pearson and John Belton O’Neall
by Joseph A. Ranney
(University of Georgia Press)
A Life Cut Short at the Little Big Horn: U.S. Army Surgeon George E. Lord
by Todd E. Harburn
(University of Oklahoma Press)
An Inside Story of Modern Syria: The Unauthorised Biography of a Damascene Reformer (Muhammad Imady)
by Omar Imady
(Pen and Sword History)
Maulana Azad: A Life
by S. Irfan Habib
(Aleph Book Company)
Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer
by Jeremy D. Popkin
(Rowman & Littlefield)
John T. Wilder: Union General, Southern Industrialist
by Steven Cox
(Mercer University Press)
Mrs Beeton and Mrs Marshall: A Tale of Two Victorian Cooks
by Emma Kay
(Pen and Sword History)
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
by Philippa Gregory
(HarperOne)
Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency Relations
by Christine Kenyon Jones
(Bloomsbury Academic)
Changing the Course: How Charlie Sifford and Stanley Mosk Integrated the PGA
by Peter May
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah (Baruch Spinoza)
by Ian Buruma
(Yale University Press)
To Make A Killing: Arthur Cutten, The Man Who Ruled the Markets
by Robert Stephens
(McGill-Queen’s University Press)