Paperback Releases, October 2021
Eleanor
by David Michaelis
(Simon & Schuster)
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
by Peniel E. Joseph
(Basic Books)
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
by William Souder
(W.W. Norton)
Charles H. Thompson on Desegregation, Democracy, and Education: 1953–1963
by Louis Ray
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
Meghan and the Unmasking of the Monarchy: A Hollywood Princess
by Andrew Morton
(Grand Central Publishing)
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
by Catherine Grace Katz
(Mariner Books)
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
(Liveright)
Battle of Brothers: William and Harry – the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult
by Robert Lacey
(Harper Paperbacks)
All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy’s 1968 Tour of Appalachia
by Matthew Algeo
(Chicago Review Press)
Havel: Unfinished Revolution
by David Gilbreath Barton
(University of Pittsburgh Press)
Becoming Dracula: The Early Years of Bela Lugosi (Volume Two)
by Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger
(BearManor Media)
Monster: The True Story of the Jeffrey Dahmer Murders
by Anne E. Schwartz
(Sterling)
Hannah Arendt
by Samantha Rose Hill
(Reaktion Books)
Jerome Kersey: Overcoming the Odds
by Kerry Eggers
(Dementi Milestone Publishing)
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War
by Michael Gorra
(Liveright)
Gotti’s Boys: The Mafia Crew That Killed for John Gotti
by Anthony M. DeStefano
(Citadel)
Dorothy Dandridge: A Biography
by Donald Bogle
(Amistad)
Not for You: Pearl Jam and the Present Tense
by Ronen Givony
(Bloomsbury Academic)
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
by H. W. Brands
(Anchor)
The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America
by Marcus J. Moore
(Atria Books)
Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows
by Frank B. Linderman
(Harper Perennial)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Henry Ketcham
(Aeterna)
Thomas Mann’s War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters
by Tobias Boes
(Cornell University Press)
Josephine Butler: Patron Saint of Prostitutes
by Helen Mathers
(The History Press)
José Martí: A Revolutionary Life
by Alfred J. López
(University of Texas Press)
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
by Peter Salmon
(Verso)
Yankee Warhorse: A Biography of Major General Peter Osterhaus
by Mary Bobbitt Townsend
(University of Missouri)
Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
by Robin Wallace
(University of Chicago Press)
Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity
by Laura E. Smith and Linda Poolaw
(Nebraska)
The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The Story of the Enslaved Jamaican Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir
by Michael Bundock
(Yale University Press)
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
by Michael Massing
(Harper Perennial)
A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.
by Michael Cannell
(Minotaur Books)
150 Glimpses of the Beatles
by Craig Brown
(Picador)
Woody Guthrie: An Intimate Life
by Gustavus Stadler
(Beacon Press)
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
by Constance Valis Hill
(Oxford University Press)
The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
by Delphine Minoui
(Picador)
Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting
by Alan Sullivan with Joe Cox
(University Press of Kentucky)
Thomas Berry: A Biography
by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal
(Columbia University Press)
George Whitefield: Life, Context, and Legacy
by Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones
(Oxford University Press)
The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row: Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures
by Bernard F. Dick
(University Press of Kentucky)
Doctor Dealer: A doctor high on greed, a biker gang high on opioids, and the woman who paid the ultimate price
by George Anastasia and Ralph Cipriano
(Berkley)
Finding Murph: How Joe Murphy Went From Winning a Championship to Living Homeless in the Bush
by Rick Westhead
(HarperCollins Publishers)
Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor
by Adena Spingarn
(Stanford University Press)
Bart Starr: When Leadership Mattered
by David Claerbaut
(Lyons Press)
Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self
by Carole S. Kessner
(Brandeis University Press)
Churchill’s Admiral in Two World Wars: Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes of Zeebrugge and Dover GCB KCVO CMG DSO
by Jim Crossley
(Pen and Sword Maritime)
Steve Jobs (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
by Walter Isaacson
(Simon & Schuster)
The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing
by Betsy Bonner
(Tin House Books)
All or Nothing at All: The Life of Billy Bland
by Steve Chilton
(Sandstone Press)
The Hockneys: Never Worry What the Neighbours Think
by John Hockney
(Legend Press US)
The King of Nazi Paris: Henri Lafont and the Gangsters of the French Gestapo
by Christopher Othen
(Biteback Publishing)
A Mythic Obsession: The World of Dr. Evermor
by Tom Kupsh
(Chicago Review Press)
Newman: The Heart of Holiness
by Roderick Strange
(Hodder Faith)
Churchill’s Flawed Decisions: Errors in Office of The Greatest Briton
by Stephen Wynn
(Pen and Sword Military)
Harry H. Woodring: A Political Biography of FDR’s Controversial Secretary of War
by Keith D. McFarland
(University Press of Kansas)
Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1949
by A. J. Bacevich
(University Press of Kansas)
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues Legend
by Jackie Kay
(Vintage)