Paperback Releases, November 2023
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage
(Penguin Books)
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot’s Hidden Muse
by Lyndall Gordon
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
by Aidan Levy
(Hachette Books)
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
by Philip Norman
(Simon & Schuster UK)
Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
by Jennifer Homans
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Terry Pratchett, A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
by Rob Wilkins
(Penguin)
Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine (movie tie-in edition)
by Brock Yates
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III
by Andrew Roberts
(Penguin Books)
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland
by Troy Senik
(Threshold Editions)
Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World
by Tobias Hürter
(The Experiment)
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
by Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)
The Faith of Elvis
by Bill Stanley with Kent Sanders
(Thomas Nelson)
The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story (anniversary edition)
by Vivek J. Tiwary and Andrew C. Robinson, with Kyle Baker
(M Press)
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
by Brigitta Olubas
(Picador)
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
by Reza Aslan
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them
by John Bainbridge Jr.
(Griffin)
The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis
by James Eli Shiffer
(University of Minnesota Press)
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
by Olivier Zunz
(Princeton University Press)
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
by Harry Sidebottom
(Oneworld Publications)
Romy Schneider: A Star Across Europe
by Marion Hallet
(Bloomsbury Academic)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: Charles De Ville Wells, Gambler and Fraudster Extraordinaire
by Robin Quinn
(The History Press)
The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe, Britain’s Greatest Press Baron
by Andrew Roberts
(Simon & Schuster UK)
Marcus Agrippa: Right-Hand Man of Caesar Augustus
by Lindsay Powell
(Pen and Sword Military)
The Man Who Hacked the World: A Ghostwriter’s Descent into Madness with John McAfee
by Alex Cody Foster
(Turner)
Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood: Alchemy and End Times in Reformation Germany
by Tara Nummedal
(University of Pennsylvania Press)
Messi vs. Ronaldo: One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era That Remade the World’s Game
by Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson
(Mariner Books)
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
by Andrew Meier
(Random House Trade Paperbacks)
Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976–2009
by Neal Gabler
(Crown)
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
by Jacon McBride
(Simon & Schuster)
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
by Mark Braude
(W. W. Norton & Company)
Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
by Caroline Moorehead
(Harper Perennial)
Witness to Dignity: The Life and Faith of George H. W. and Barbara Bush
by Russell Levenson Jr.
(Center Street)
I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon
by Mac Griswold
(Picador)
Favourite of Fortune: Captain John Quilliam, Trafalgar Hero
by Andrew Bond, Frank Cowin, and Andrew Lambert
(Seaforth Publishing)
Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence
by Stephen Chan
(Bloomsbury Academic)
Justice for Everyone: The Jurisprudence and Legal Lives of Brenda Hale
by Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley
(Cambridge University Press)
Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch
by Svetlana Alpers
(Princeton University Press)