Several BIO members have new books out this month:

• Patchen Barss, The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius (Basic Books)
• Robin Foster, Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century (Bison Book/University of Nebraska Press)
• Nigel Hamilton, Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents (Little, Brown and Company)
• Martin Klotz, Robert Rogers, Ranger: The Rise and Fall of An American Icon (Westholme Publishing)
• Patrick Parr, Malcolm Before X (University of Massachusetts Press)
• Carl Rollyson, The Making of Sylvia Plath (University Press of Mississippi)

Additionally, John T. Shaw’s The Education of A Statesman: How Global Leaders Can Repair a Fractured World, a biography of Jan Eliasson, was published last month through Rowman & Littlefield. My apologies for the oversight.

Two BIO members have new paperback editions out this month:

• Ray E. Boomhower, Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam (High Road Books)
• Stephanie Gorton, Citizen Reporters: S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America (Ecco)

The November episodes of the BIO Podcast are as follows:

• November 1, Susan Blumberg-Kason, author of Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China (Post Hill Press, 2023), interviewed by Jennifer Skoog.
• November 8, Ken Burns, documentarist most recently of Leonardo da Vinci (PBS, 2024), interviewed by John A. Farrell.
• November 15, Heath Hardage Lee, author of The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon: The Life and Times of Washington’s Most Private First Lady (St. Martin’s Press, 2024), interviewed by John A. Farrell.
• November 22, Carl Rollyson, author of Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2 (University Press of Mississippi, 2024), interviewed by Jack A. Farrell.

Additionally:

Nigel Hamilton’s aforementioned new book, Lincoln vs. Davis, was featured as an Amazon Best History Book of the Month for November. You can view the selections here.