Paperback Releases, August 2021
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
by A. N. Wilson
(Harper Perennial)
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976–1980
by Rick Perlstein
(Simon & Schuster)
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Heroic Struggle for America’s Heartland
by Peter Cozzens
(Vintage)
Rachel Maddow: A Biography
by Lisa Rogak
(St. Martin’s Griffin)
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
by Lucy Worsley
(St. Martin’s Griffin)
Hannah Arendt
by Samantha Rose Hill
(Reaktion Books)
Tales of a Mad Yogi: The Life and Wild Wisdom of Drukpa Kunley
by Elizabeth Monson
(Snow Lion)
Monarch of the Green: Young Tom Morris, Pioneer of Modern Golf
by Stephen Proctor
(Arena Sport)
Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
by Wolfram Eilenberger
(Penguin Books)
Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
by Michael Hiltzik
(Mariner Books)
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
by Alan Mikhail
(Liveright)
The Quality of Madness: A Life of Marcelo Bielsa
by Tim Rich
(Quercus Publishing)
Sir Sean Connery: The Definitive Biography
by John Parker
(John Blake)
Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan
by Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand
(Dey Street Books)
I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music
by Dave Thompson
(Backbeat)
Metallica: The $24.95 Book
by Ben Apatoff
(Backbeat)
Becoming Carole Lombard: Stardom, Comedy, and Legacy
by Olympia Kiriakou
(Bloomsbury Academic)
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
by Lesley M. M. Blume
(Simon & Schuster)
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet
by Domenico Losurdo, translated by Gregor Benton
(Haymarket Books)
Mary Lou Williams: Music for the Soul
by Deanna Witkowski
(Liturgical Press)
Pleasure and Ambition: The Life, Loves and Wars of Augustus the Strong
by Tony Sharp
(Bloomsbury Academic)
The Pioneering Life of Peter Kirk: From Derbyshire to the Pacific Northwest
by Saundra Middleton
(BookBaby)
New Age Grifter: The True Story of Gabriel of Urantia and his Cosmic Family
by Joseph L. Flatley
(Feral House)
The Beatles: Acting Naturally
by Rory Hoy
(New Haven Publishing)
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory
by Roxane van Iperen
(Harper Paperbacks)
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War
by Michael Gorra
(Liveright)
Shot at a Brothel: The Spectacular Demise of Oscar “Ringo” Bonavena
by Patrick Connor
(Hamilcar Publications)
The Black Circle: A Life of Alexandre Kojève
by Jeff Love
(Columbia University Press)
Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy
by Edward Ball
(Picador)
The Spy Who Would Be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground
by Kevin Coogan
(Routledge)
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters
by Mike Edison
(Backbeat)
Max Verstappen: The Inside Track on a Formula One Star
by James Gray
(Icon Books)
Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
by Jean Guerrero
(William Morrow Paperbacks)
Hal Moore: A Soldier Once . . . and Always
by Mike Guardia
(Casemate)
Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish Versus the West Coast Hotel Company
by Helen J. Knowles
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome
by Douglas Boin
(W. W. Norton)
Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend
by Christina De Stefano, translated by Mariana Harss
(Other Press)
Guitar King: Michael Bloomfield’s Life in the Blues
by David Dann
(University of Texas Press)
My Chemical Romance: This Band Will Save Your Life
by Reinhardt Haydn
(Plexus Publishing)
Pirate’s Gold
by Andrew Coe
(Four Winds Press)
Hélène Metzger, Historian and Historiographer of the Sciences
by Cristina Chimisso
(Routledge)
The True Story of Notorious Arizona Outlaw Augustine Chacón
by David Grassé
(The History Press)
Sooner: The Making of a Football Coach – Lincoln Riley’s Rise from West Texas to the University of Oklahoma
by Brandon Sneed
(St. Martin’s Griffin)
Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe
by Julian Palacios
(Plexus Publishing)
Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
by Jean E. Snyder
(University of Illinois Press)
General Fox Conner: Pershing’s Chief of Operations and Eisenhower’s Mentor
by Steven Rabalais
(Casemate)
The Kings and Queens of Britain
by Cath Senker
(Sirius)
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
by Casey Rae
(University of Texas Press)
A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard
by Connie Cronley
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London
by Danish Khan
(Ebury Press)
Five Irish Women: The Second Republic, 1960–2016
by Emer Nolan
(Manchester University Press)
Dukes of Duval County: The Parr Family and Texas Politics
by Anthony R. Carrozza
(University of Oklahoma Press)
Remembering Lucile: A Virginia Family’s Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High
by Polly E. Bugros McLean
(University Press of Colorado)
Americo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography
by Manuel Medrano
(University of North Texas Press)
Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound
by David M. Buerge
(Sasquatch Books)
Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover
by R. J. B. Bosworth
(Yale University Press)
Muhammad: Islam’s First Great General
by Richard A. Gabriel
(University of Oklahoma Press)
General Mark Clark: Commander of U.S. Fifth Army and Liberator of Rome
by Jon Mikolashek
(Casemate)
Karmayogi
by M. S. Ashokan
(India Portfolio)
The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery
by Robert Weintraub
(Dutton)
Hard Driving: The Wendell Scott Story
by Brian Donovan
(Truth to Power)
The Bloodied and the Broken
by Denise Noe
(Black Lyon Publishing)
Aldous Huxley
by Jake Poller
(Reaktion Press)
Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford, The Biography
by Laura Thompson
(Pegasus Books)
The Happy Hunters: The Miraculous Life and Healing Ministry of Charles and Frances Hunter
by Richard Young and Brenda Young
(Whitaker House)
Professional Criminals of America: From Gilded Age New York
by Thomas Byrnes
(UNKNO)
Cardinal Newman
by Michael Ffinch
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Apostle of Union: A Political Biography of Edward Everett
by Matthew Mason
(University of North Carolina Press)
Idi Amin: The Story of Africa’s Icon of Evil
by Mark Leopold
(Yale University Press)
Citizen Countess: Sofia Panina and the Fate of Revolutionary Russia
by Adele Lindenmeyr
(University of Wisconsin Press)
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West
by David Horgan
(University of Nevada Press)
Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers
by Helen Vines
(Monash University Publishing)
Mr. Jones – The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones
by Martin Shipton
(Welsh Academic Press)
Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere: The Bridgewater Connection
by Mark Child
(Grosvenor House Publishing)
General Albert C. Wedemeyer: America’s Unsung Strategist in World War II
by John McLaughlin
(Casemate)
Canadian Courage: True Stories of Canada’s Everyday Heroes
by Linda Pruessen
(Collins)
The Curious Conversion of Thomas Chalmers
by John D. Clayton
(Peter Lang)
Silent Witness: The Story of Chicago’s Courtroom Sketch Artist Verna Sadock
by Liz Samuel Richards
(BookBaby)
Beethoven
by Anne Pimlott Baker
(The History Press)