In Stores Now, July 2022
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor
by Andrew Lownie
(Pegasus Books)
Searching For Lee Wen: A Life in 135 Parts
by Chan Li Shan
(Epigram)
The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
by Ron Shelton
(Knopf)
Tanqueray (Stephanie Johnson)
by Brandon Stanton
(St. Martin’s Press)
Elvis – The Legend: The Authorized Book from the Official Graceland Archive
by Gillian G. Gaar
(Mortimer)
Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
by Hugh Eakin
(Crown)
Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod
by Casey Sherman
(Sourcebooks)
Putin
by Philip Short
(Henry Holt & Company)
The Lady Di Look Book: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes
by Eloise Moran
(St. Martin’s Griffin)
Growing Up Getty: The Story of America’s Most Unconventional Dynasty
by James Reginato
(Gallery Books)
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries
by Rick Emerson
(BenBella Books)
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
by Damien Lewis
(PublicAffairs)
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
by Ken Auletta
(Penguin Press)
The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler
by Deborah Cadbury
(PublicAffairs)
This America of Ours: Bernard and Avis DeVoto and the Forgotten Fight to Save the Wild
by Nate Schweber
(Mariner Books)
Rafa Nadal: The King of the Court
by Dominic Bliss
(Ivy Press)
Sho-time: The Inside Story of Shohei Ohtani and the Greatest Baseball Season Ever Played
by Jeff Fletcher
(Diversion Books)
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
by Bill Shaffer
(Citadel)
William at 40: The Making of a Modern Monarch
by Robert Jobson
(Ad Lib Publishers)
Chums: How A Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over The UK
by Simon Kuper
(IPS – Profile Books)
Queen Elizabeth II: A Glorious 70 Years
by Alison James
(Sona Books)
Speaking of Harpo (Harpo Marx)
by Susan Fleming Marx and Robert S. Bader
(Applause)
Zelensky: A Biography (Volodymyr Zelensky)
by Serhii Rudenko
(Polity)
Live Forever: The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver
by Courtney S. Lennon
(Texas A&M University Press)
Rautavaara’s Journey in Music (Einojuhani Rautavaara)
by Barbara Blanchard Hong
(Rowman & Littlefield)
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s Golden Age
by Jake S. Friedman
(Chicago Review Press)
Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL’s Only Perfect Season
by Marshall Jon Fisher
(Abrams Press)
Dear Regina: Flannery O’Connor’s Letters from Iowa
by Monica Carol Miller
(University of Georgia Press)
The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America (Lanah Sawyer)
by John Wood Sweet
(Henry Holt & Company)
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer
by Kathy Kleiman
(Grand Central Publishing)
God is Dead: The Rise and Fall of Frank Vandenbroucke, Cycling’s Great Wasted Talent
by Andy McGrath
(Bantam Press)
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
by Mary Ann Caws
(Reaktion Books)
John of Gaunt: Son of One King, Father of Another
by Kathryn Warner
(Amberley Publishing)
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris “Biba” Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
by Douglas Century
(William Morrow)
Vaughan Williams
by Eric Saylor
(Oxford University Press)
Children of Mercury: The Lives of the Painters
by Spike Bucklow
(Reaktion Books)
The Grove: A History of Everything in 19 ½ Front Gardens
by Ben Dark
(Mitchell Beazley)
Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn: Boxing’s Unforgettable Summer of 1941
by Ed Gruver
(Lyons Press)
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
by John Walsh
(Constable)
Salvator Rosa: Paint and Performance
by Helen Langdon
(Reaktion Books)
Being Britney: Pieces of a Modern Icon (Britney Spears)
by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
(Permuted Press)
It Was Always a Choice: Picking Up the Baton of Athlete Activism
by David Steele
(Temple University Press)
Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood
by Hilary A. Hallett
(Liveright)
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery
by Stephen Bates
(Icon Books)
Love of My Life: The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury
by Lesley-Ann Jones
(Coronet)
The Hunter Elite: Inside the Counter Assault Team of the Secret Service
by Leon Wagener
(Regnery History)
The Queen of Technicolor: Maria Montez in Hollywood
by Tom Zimmerman
(University Press of Kentucky)
True Story: How a Pulp Empire Remade Mass Media (Bernarr Macfadden)
by Shanon Fitzpatrick
(Harvard University Press)
A Literary Life of Sutton E. Griggs: The Man on the Firing Line
by John Cullen Gruesser
(Oxford University Press)
Walking Alone: The Untold Journey of Football Pioneer Kenny Washington
by Dan Taylor
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Bob Hawke: Demons and Destiny
by Troy Bramston
(Viking Australia)
The Viking Saint: Olaf II of Norway
by John Carr
(Pen and Sword Military)
King Fisher: The Short Life and Elusive Legend of a Texas Desperado
by Chuck Parsons and Thomas C. Bicknell
(University of North Texas Press)
No Difficulties with God: The Life of Thomas Charles, Bala (1755–1814)
by D. Eryl Davies
(Christian Focus Publications)
Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre
by Stephen Bourne
(The History Press)
Lighthouse: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Despised and Beloved Critics of Mormonism
by Ronald V. Huggins
(Signature Books)
Charles Huber: France’s Greatest Arabian Explorer
by William Facey
(Arabian Publishing Ltd.)
FDR: Transforming the Presidency and Renewing America
by Iwan Morgan
(Bloomsbury Academic)
The Fall of Charles I
by Jane Hayter-Hames
(Amberley Publishing)
Preston Morgan Bolton, Texas Architect and Civic Leader
by Lillian C. Woo
(Texas A&M University Press)
Newt Gingrich: The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur
by Matthew N. Green and Jeffrey Crouch
(University Press of Kansas)
Service Above Self: Women Veterans in American Politics
by Erika Cornelius Smith
(University Press of Kansas)
Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons from Five Revolutionary Women
by Kristen Ghodsee
(Verso)
Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography
by Jerry Kelly
(The Grolier Club)
Bleak Health: The Medical History of Charles Dickens and His Family
by Nicholas Cambridge
(Edward Everett Root)
Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing
by Lucinda Hawksley
(Pen and Sword History)
The Spectacular Theatre of Frank Joseph Galati: Reshaping American Theatre in Chicago, Illinois
by Julie Jackson
(Methuen Drama)
Thomas Brackett Reed: The Gilded Age Speaker Who Made the Rules for American Politics
by Robert Klotz
(University Press of Kansas)
Minna Wagner: A Life with Richard Wagner
by Eva Rieger
(University of Rochester Press)
Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine
by Maceo C. Dailey Jr.
(Texas Tech University Press)
Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho: The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music
by Yolanda Broyles-González, Francisco González, and Rafael Figueroa Hernández
(University of Chicago Press)
Roots and Wings: Virginia Tanner’s Dance Life and Legacy
by Mary-Elizabeth Manley, Mary Ann Lee, and Robert Bruce Bennett
(University of Utah Press)
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
by Winston James
(Columbia University Press)
A Director’s Tale: John Bond, Burnley and the Boardroom Diaries of Derek Gill
by Dave Thomas
(Pitch Publishing)
Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.
by E. James West
(University of Massachusetts Press)
Smollett’s Britain (Tobias Smollett)
by Jeremy Black
(St. Augustine’s Press)
Before Crips: Fussin’, Cussin’, and Discussin’ Among South Los Angeles Juvenile Gangs
by John C. Quicker and Akil S. Batani-Khalfani
(Temple University Press)
Nii Lamptey: The Curse of Pelé
by Joris Kaper
(Pitch Publishing)
A Man of Success in the Land of Success: The Biography of Marcel Goldman, a Kracovian in Tel Aviv
by Łukasz Tomasz Sroka
(Academic Studies Press)
Bruno Maderna: His Life and Music
by Rossana Dalmonte and Mario Baroni
(Rowman & Littlefield)
Ethel Gordon Fenwick: Nursing Reformer and the First Registered Nurse
by Jenny Main
(Pen and Sword History)
The Pirate Captain Ned Low: His Life and Mysterious Fate
by Nicky Nielsen
(Pen and Sword History)
Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP
by Mary Honeyball
(Bloomsbury Academic)
The Work of History: Writing for Stuart Macintyre
by Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski
(Melbourne University Press)