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A revealing (in more ways than one) tell-all from Long Island girl- turned-international fashion influencer, designer, CEO, and tech entrepreneur Bernstein, the creative genius behind the hit style platform @WeWoreWhat. 9781641120173 | $25.99 HC Vertel Publishing
One of The New York Times’ 20 Books to Read in 2020. Part memoir and part joyful romp, the story behind a beloved pseudonymous Twitter account reveals how a writer deep in grief rebuilt a life worth living. 9780358216773 | $24.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
An in-depth look at one of the most influential voices of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and the values and beliefs that animate her political activism With the world on edge and a country and policy priorities. grappling with a new controversy 9781440875373 | $41.00 HC almost daily, Ryan gives readers a Greenwood glimpse into current events from the perspective of an African American reporter who has herself become a target for a White House. 9781538131992 | $16.95 PB Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
2 Biography/History Olympic gold medalist Diggins reveals her compelling journey from America’s heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitter. 9781517908195 | $24.95 HC University of Minnesota Press
With raw honesty, one of the most celebrated musicians of modern times shares her quest for truth—about herself, her past, and her shift from sacrificing her spirit to celebrating her worth. 9781250153296 | $29.99 HC Flatiron Books
One hundred years after the legendary singer’s birth, this book brings to life the career of an iconic performer whose contributions to the Great American Songbook, jazz, For the first time, the “Queen of popular music, and film Country Music” reveals the never- music remain unparalleled. before-told story of her remarkable 9781538128473 | $32.00 HC relationship with the legendary Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Patsy Cline in this celebration of their music and their friendship up until Cline’s untimely death. 9781538701669 | $28.00 HC Grand Central Publishing
Spring/Summer 2020 3 In a remarkable memoir of his tumultuous life, the frontman for Airborne Toxic Event describes being born into one of the country’s most infamous cults, and subjected to a childhood filled with poverty, addiction, and emotional abuse. 9781250621566 | $27.99 HC Celadon Books
Celebrating the band’s 50th anniversary, Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell share stories of growing up, growing together, and growing older. Journalist Warne weaves original interviews into a dynamic cultural history of America—the band and the nation. 9781538120958 | $24.95 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Bestselling author of Van Halen Rising works with legendary producer Ted Templeman to bring you behind-the-scenes access to stories behind the music of Eric Clapton, Aerosmith, Joan Jett, Authors Bobbie Malone and Bill Linda Ronstadt, and more. C. Malone recount how Boudleaux 9781770414839 | $19.95 PB and Felice Bryant, married in 1945, ECW Press began their partnership as itinerant musicians living in a trailer home and writing their first songs together. 9780806164861 | $24.95 HC University of Oklahoma Press
4 Biography/History An intimate memoir from the controversial, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his privileged New York upbringing, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such landmark films as Platoon and Scarface. 9780358346234 | $28.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
A rollicking autobiography from the legendary producer of Goodfellas, Rocky, and Raging Bull, and an insider’s account of making movies in Hollywood over half a century. 9781419735257 | $17.00 PB Harry N. Abrams
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series comes a meditation on the deeply Jewish and surprisingly spiritual roots of Stan Lee and Marvel Comics. 9780300230345 | $26.00 HC From the prizewinning Jewish Lives Yale University Press series comes an exuberant biography of the world’s greatest escape artist, who became world-famous thanks to his talent, industry, and ferocious determination. 9780300230796 | $26.00 HC Yale University Press
Spring/Summer 2020 5 The culmination of years of research in archives that have been largely ignored by previous biographers, this volume offers a significant challenge and an essential contribution to Faulkner scholarship. 9780813943824 | $34.95 HC University of Virginia Press
Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. 9780300169645 | $35.00 HC Yale University Press
By crafting a written journey through childhood traumas, poverty, and the impact of alcoholism on families, Arroyo clearly outlines how his lived experiences made him want A portrait of a keen social observer to become a writer. at the center of the last 50 years of 9780816539512 | $22.95 PB cultural life, captured through a vivid University of Arizona Press selection of O’Brien’s own writings on everything from music to fashion to the political temperature of America. 9781733540100 | $35.00 HC ZE Books
6 Biography/History Wade presents an engrossing portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London’s Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in their life and work. 9780451497796 | $28.99 HC Tim Duggan Books
Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II. 9781643133157 | $28.95 HC Pegasus Books
Grace Frick introduced English- language readers all over the world to the author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award- winning translation of Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian. This work Holbrook poignantly traces the path paints a portrait of both women from her troubled childhood to her that is at once intimate and leadership positions in the Twin Cities scrupulously documented. literary community, showing how 9780826222107 | $26.95 PB creative writing can be a powerful tool University of Missouri Press for challenging racism and the healing ways of the storyteller’s art. 9781517907631 | $18.95 PB University of Minnesota Press
Spring/Summer 2020 7 In 1974, Stephen Hawking shook the world of physics. Find out how this boy who loved science became one of history’s greatest trailblazers. (Ages 9 to 12) 9780593124499 | $7.99 PB Random House Books for Young Readers
The story of the geologist who was a the driving force behind scientific endeavor in early Minnesota history, laying out the prehistory of the region, its era of inland seas, its volcanic activity, and its several Ice Ages. 9781517901684 | $29.95 HC University of Minnesota Press
The first complete English edition of André Michaux’s American journals, this copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction North recounts in detail his life in the situating his work in the larger vanguard of modern climate science, scientific context of the day. offering an insider’s look at the 9780817320300 | $54.95 HC academic research and government University of Alabama Press initiatives around global warming and what that means for the planet. 9781623498672 | $35.00 HC Texas A&M University Press
8 Biography/History The first biography of science writer and rocketeer Ley, who predicted and boosted the rise of the Space Age, yet has been overlooked in the history of science. 9780813068244 | $24.95 PB University Press of Florida
Named One of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020. The extraordinary inside story of Governor Jerry Brown’s political impact in California and beyond, from an award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author. 9780316392464 | $30.00 HC Little, Brown and Company
The most complete accounting of John Tyler’s life and career, Leahy’s biography makes an original contribution to the fields of politics, family life, and slavery in the antebellum South. By emphasizing the workings of 9780807172544 | $39.95 HC Abraham Lincoln’s mind, Striner looks LSU Press anew at many topics and themes important to Lincoln’s story that either revise or add new meaning to the work of previous biographers. 9781538137161 | $35.00 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Spring/Summer 2020 9 From the bestselling author of Nixonland comes the fourth and final volume of his series on the rise of the right, an in-depth exploration of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. 9781476793054 | $37.50 HC Simon & Schuster
In this intimate and sweeping portrayal of Vâaclav Havel, Barton reveals the eccentricities of the last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first president of the Czech Republic. 9780822946069 | $35.00 HC University of Pittsburgh Press
Drawing on the latest research in France, Britain, and America and paying special attention to the culture of the court, Mansel’s is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure in English. 9780226690896 | $35.00 HC University of Chicago Press
10 Biography/History Bashor unveils the hedonistic atmosphere at Versailles as readers learn the secret language of the queen’s fan and explore the hidden passageways and staircases of endless intrigue at the palace. 9781538138243 | $24.95 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The Grand Duchess’ surviving diaries and letters offer a fascinating insight into the private life of a loving family— from festivals and faith, to Rasputin and the coming Revolution. 9781594163227 | $28.00 HC Westholme Publishing
This illuminating and enthralling biography of the 19th- century queer actress portrays her radical lifestyle that riveted New York City and made headlines across America. 9781501199523 | $27.00 HC Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Spring/Summer 2020 11 From the bestselling author of King Leopold’s Ghost comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. 9781328866745 | $30.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
The story of 1930s tennis icon Alice Marble and her life of sports, celebrity, and incredible mystery. Did she really nearly give her life for her country as a spy, shot during a wild car chase fleeing foreign espionage agents? 9781524745363 | $28.00 HC Dutton Books
Eduardo Garrigues’ intriguing biography examines the life and times of Bernardo de Gálvez, a hero of the American Revolution, from whom the city of Galveston, Paul uses the Kinnier Wilson letters Texas, gets its name to take readers on a journey through 9781558858923 | $21.95 PB a couple’s engagement, marriage, Arte Publico Press dangerous travels, and their arrival and life in America. An engrossing and inspiring story of romance, faith, tragedy, and hope. 9781620209592 | $16.99 PB Emerald House Group
12 Biography/History Historian Cecere cuts away the romanticism surrounding the legendary clergyman-turned-soldier for the American cause to present him as a highly capable and dedicated officer who served for seven long years in America’s War for Independence. 9781594163425 | $26.00 HC Westholme Publishing
The authors share the riveting journey of an escaped slave who fought for the Union and whose wartime heroism was finally recognized with the nation’s highest honor for military valor. 9781594163418 | $28.00 HC Westholme Publishing
Dr. Borlaug was hailed as the person who saved the lives of more people from starvation than any person in history. His is an inspiring story, having gone from an unpretentious Murphy chronicles Hance’s childhood in Iowa farm boy to scientist-cum- Tennessee and Missouri, his service in humanist of world acclaim. the Confederacy during the Civil War, 9781948460101 | $22.95 PB his time in Union prisons as a POW, and Righter’s Mill Press LLC his later adventures with the Hickok brothers crossing the plains. 9781607817536 | $24.95 PB University of Utah Press
Spring/Summer 2020 13 A famous Nazi hunter and a descendent of Nazi collaborators team up on a journey to uncover Lithuania’s Holocaust secrets, searching for neglected graves, interviewing eyewitnesses, and uncovering hints of the rich life that had existed in Jewish communities throughout Lithuania. 9781538133033 | $24.95 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
The first full biography of the adjutant general of the U.S. Army in World War II sets his achievements in context and explores the magnitude of his part in facilitating an Allied victory. 9781612008264 | $34.95 HC Casemate
Using Dr. Berkman’s unfinished prison memoir, FBI records, letters, and hundreds of interviews, the author sheds fascinating light on questions of political violence and revolutionary zeal in her account Proto looks at the early years of A. of Berkman’s transformation from Bartlett Giamatti, who would become doctor to co-conspirator for justice. Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon 9781469656250 | $30.00 HC Protestant president and commissioner University of North Carolina Press of Major League Baseball. 9781438479637 | $34.95 HC Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
14 Biography/History The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain—the British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb—showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good. 9780593083390 | $30.00 HC Viking
The inspiration for the Amazon Original docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer. This updated, expanded edition includes a new Introduction and Afterword by the author, never-before-seen photos, and a new chapter from the author’s daughter. 9781419744853 | $25.00 HC Abrams Press
Adapted from the adult memoir, this gripping story for young adults follows one boy’s journey into young adulthood and offers an intimate account of modern immigration. One of the first undocumented 9781984897114 | $17.99 HC immigrants to graduate from Harvard Delacorte Press reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreaking portrait of a nation. 9780399592683 | $26.00 HC One World
Spring/Summer 2020 15 The story of Bob Thomas, a man who reached the very top of two separate and distinct professions, Chicago Bears’ football and the law, while guided along the way by an underpinning of faith. 9781501749988 | $26.95 HC Northern Illinois University Press
The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of André the Giant transports readers beyond the smoke and mirrors of professional wrestling into the life of a real man. 9781770414662 | $26.95 HC ECW Press
In this heartwarming illustrated history, the League’s story is told by the ones who know it best: the players. Filled with player statistics, historical beats, headlines, and more; and fully illustrated in Anika’s vibrant style. (Ages 9 to 12) 9781452173641 | $19.95 HC In August 2016, American gymnast Chronicle Books Simone Biles won four Olympic gold medals! Find out how the girl who taught herself to flip on her backyard trampoline blazed a trail in gymnastics. (Ages 9 to 12) 9780593124529 | $7.99 PB Random House Books for Young Readers
16 Biography/History Drawing on more than 100 interviews and four years of reporting, this is the definitive biography of the New York Yankees icon, winner of 10 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history. 9780316310994 | $30.00 HC Little, Brown and Company
This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue tells of a young cyclist’s ever-changing and maturing world view as he ventures through 40 countries on the eve of World War II. 9780820357287 | $22.95 PB University of Georgia Press
Weber follows Yellowstone Chip’s travels from his Illinois childhood home to the majesty of the Western United States. A true singing cowboy, his lively journey encompasses music, cowboy life, and, most of all, people. 9781462857036 | $19.99 PB A raw and emotional reflection on the 9781462857043 | $29.99 HC life of Roger Henneous, a respected and Xlibris Us award-winning zookeeper who helped establish the Oregon Zoo’s reputation as a zoo providing valuable conservation efforts to elephants and other animals. 9781947845107 | $17.00 PB Ooligan Press
Spring/Summer 2020 17 From the opinion columnist and bestselling author of She’s Not There, comes a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs. 9781250261878 | $26.99 HC Celadon Books
A memoir of falling in love, the fallout of infidelity, and everything messy in between, from the creator of the Alone: A Love Story podcast praised by The Atlantic, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. 9781459746909 | $18.99 PB Dundurn Group
Ultimately a romance—of Soderlind’s love for America, her dog, the long-term partner she left behind, and the childhood crush she remembers with an aching pang—the author offers daring From a bestselling memoirist, a thoughtful and often hilarious insights and provocative story of changing into loss and acceptance. identity, complex sexuality, and enduring 9780299328306 | $26.95 HC relationships. “I ripped through this University of Wisconsin Press memoir like it was the most erudite romance novel in the world.” —Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers 9781419742996 | $25.00 HC Abrams Press
18 Biography/History The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible- to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder’s son. 9780143134510 | $17.00 PB Penguin Books
A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed marijuana brownies and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco. 9780358006091 | $27.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Let’s Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women’s movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the #MeToo era. Longlisted for the prestigious literary 9780525510055 | $27.00 HC award Prix Renaudot. Merging Random House biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. 9781606066591 | $24.95 PB Getty Publications
Spring/Summer 2020 19 The story of one woman making a place for herself in the kitchen and in the world—a disarmingly honest and revealing look at Crenn’s evolution from a daring young chef to a respected activist. 9780735224742 | $28.00 HC Penguin Press
This eye-opening memoir documents the inside-story of a female politician in Texas during an important period of history when women made significant inroads in gaining equal rights in the 1970s. 9781623498801 | $25.00 HC Texas A&M University Press
In his gripping memoir, Slotten—one of the earliest doctors to treat AIDS in Chicago—documents how the city’s gay communities were decimated by confusion, fear, and ultimately despair over Leakey’s thrilling, high-stakes memoir the ravaging disease. encapsulates her distinguished life and 9780226718767 | $20.00 HC career on the front lines of the hunt for University of Chicago Press human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a competitive, male-dominated field. 9780358206675 | $30.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
20 Biography/History Written as a series of anecdotes based on entries from a blog the author started shortly after her first diagnosis, this memoir tells an inspirational story about resilience, courage, and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. 9781774150054 | $24.95 PB Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
The inspiring true story of one man’s miraculous “against all odds” survival and recovery from a very serious head-on collision. 9781973664420 | $11.95 PB 9781973664437 | $28.95 HC WestBow Press
The psychologist to the Hollywood elite delivers a page-turning memoir about his fall from grace into the gritty underbelly of crack addiction, running drugs, surviving homelessness, Rastrelli, a survivor of clergy- escaping a murder plot, and perpetrated sexual abuse who finding redemption in the then became a priest, divulges the most unlikely of places. clandestine inner workings of the 9780757323546 | $16.95 PB seminary and lays bare the system Health Communications that perpetuates the cycle of abuse and cover-up that continues today. 9781609387099 | $19.95 PB University of Iowa Press
Spring/Summer 2020 21 A descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison, shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth. 9781328604392 | $28.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
Generations of abuse, racism, adultery, and lies populate this sordid history, the true story that influenced the award-winning Black Mountain novel series. 9780881467321 | $18.00 PB Mercer University Press
In this memoir, the author traces her transition from an idyllic childhood in a large extended Iraqi family through three wars and on to the relative stability of being exiled in Canada. The author chronicles her struggle 9781988449906 | $24.95 PB with mental illness and the crime to Mawenzi House/Tsar Publishers which it led, giving readers a glimpse into what life is truly like inside a federal women’s prison. 9781948460026 | $22.95 PB Righter’s Mill Press LLC
22 Biography/History After years of being misled by the U.S. government, the author travels to Laos with the hope of finding answers for her family, but instead finds a country still reeling from a secret war. 9781951213077 | $26.00 PB Unnamed Press
Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation. An inventive literary account of Cixous’ remarkable journey to her mother’s birthplace and of the Jewish community of a German town that was wiped out in the Holocaust. 9780823287628 | $24.95 HC Fordham University Press
Through alternating perspectives, Gormley weaves a history of the Korean War with the story of locating his wife’s uncle, Cpl. Donald Matney, long lost in the war. 9781490799209 | $13.99 PB Nightingale shares his personal account 9781490799193 | $23.99 HC of the events leading to the Iran Trafford Publishing Hostage Rescue attempt, and how its failure directly led to the creation of the Special Operations competency that the United States enjoys today. 9781612008776 | $34.95 HC Casemate
Spring/Summer 2020 23 The #1 internationally bestselling, gripping true story of a frontline trauma surgeon operating in the world’s most dangerous war zones and his struggles to return to a “normal” life and routine after each trip. 9781419744242 | $26.00 HC Harry N. Abrams
This memoir reveals the one- of-a-kind experience that is life on a nuclear submarine, and what it’s like to live, work, and stay sane in one of the most extreme man-made environments on the planet. 9781335996244 | $28.99 HC Hanover Square Press
Smyth reintroduces the traditional sea shanty for a new generation. The lyrics are elaborated upon with explanations of terminology, context including historical facts and accounts of life at sea, and the characters, both fictional and nonfictional, that appear in the songs. 9780295747286 | $19.95 HC University of Washington Press
24 Biography/History Patrin traces the development of the transformative pop- cultural practice of sampling from its origins in the turntable- manning, record-spinning hip-hop DJs of 1970s New York through 40 years of musical innovation and reinvention. 9781517906283 | $22.95 PB University of Minnesota Press
Named a “Classic of Blues Literature” by the Blues Foundation in 2019, this remarkable book recovers three invaluable perspectives, long thought to have been lost, on the culture and music of the Mississippi Delta. 9780826514868 | $18.95 PB Vanderbilt University Press
Kamp shares the engrossing, behind-the-scenes story of the cultural heroes who created the beloved children’s TV programs that collectively transformed American childhood for the better, teaching kids about diversity, the ABCs, and feminism through a funky 1970s lens. 9781501137808 | $27.50 HC Simon & Schuster
Spring/Summer 2020 25 Graphic designer Kolodny demystifies the recurring colors and visual components of national flags, showing that countries with vastly different climates and cultures often have more in common than one might expect. 9781452182650 | $24.95 HC Chronicle Books
The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world’s greatest art museum. 9780802148773 | $30.00 HC Atlantic Monthly Press
Drawing on extensive historical research, Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of Utah’s five national parks and eight national monuments that are home Weaving together the experiences of to some of America’s most entrepreneurs and artisans, female amazing scenic treasures. consumers and chemists, Marchand 9781607817659 | $59.95 HC traces the remarkable story of “white University of Utah Press gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic 20th century. 9780691182339 | $35.00 HC Princeton University Press
26 Biography/History Junior and Schipper tell the story of how this biblical character became an icon of African-American literature. Along the way, they introduce readers to a cast of historical characters, many of whom became American icons themselves. 9780190689780 | $29.95 HC Oxford University Press, USA
A from-the-trenches view of New York Daily News and New York Post runners and photographers as they stop at nothing to break the story and squash their tabloid arch-rivals. 9780823287383 | $29.95 HC Fordham University Press
This “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) exploration of the impact of epidemic diseases looks at how mass infectious outbreaks have shaped society, Forget all the ivory-tower stereotypes from the Black Death to today. of white-coated doctors finding 9780300192216 | $35.00 HC miracle cures. This highly entertaining Yale University Press book, profiling the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine from 1901 to 1950, reveals the messy human reality behind medical progress. 9781610353502 | $18.95 PB Quill Driver Books
Spring/Summer 2020 27 With the same curiosity and insight that made Ghostland a hit with readers and critics, Dickey looks at what all fringe beliefs have in common, explaining that today’s Illuminati is yesterday’s Flat Earth. 9780525557562 | $27.00 HC Viking
Winner of the Lukas Prize, this is the definitive account of the most notorious street gang in America— the MS-13—as seen through the lives of gang members and their families caught in its malicious web. 9781335005540 | $28.99 HC Hanover Square Press
With unprecedented access to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, lawyers, medical professionals, Wall Street insiders, and law enforcement officers, the authors reveal the dirty secrets and sinister ties that The stranger-than-fiction cold may have inspired someone to kill case from rural Oklahoma that has the jet-setting consigliere. stumped authorities for two decades, 9780593192238 | $27.00 HC concerning the disappearance of two Sentinel teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth. 9781984806307 | $27.00 HC Berkley Books
28 Biography/History How the onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. 9780806165424 | $21.95 PB University of Oklahoma Press
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts comes a pulse- pounding tale of triumph by an improbable team of upstarts over Hitler’s fearsome Silver Arrows during the golden age of auto racing 9781328489876 | $28.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
The host of the hit podcast History Unplugged tells colorful and shocking stories about nine of the most mentally unbalanced rulers in history, including King George III, Karamanski’s sweeping maritime Caligula, and Kim Jong Il. history demonstrates the far- 9781684510061 | $29.99 HC ranging impact that the tools and Regnery History infrastructure developed for navigating the Great Lakes had on the national economies, politics, and environment of continental North America. 9780299326302 | $36.95 HC University of Wisconsin Press
Spring/Summer 2020 29 The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy—and how the West crushed it. 9780802148209 | $30.00 HC Atlantic Monthly Press
A fresh, original history of America’s national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present day. 9780300229752 | $30.00 HC Yale University Press
President Trump’s White House is famously tumultuous. But as presidential historian and former White House staffer Troy reminds readers, bitter rivalries inside the White House are nothing new. From the New York Times-bestselling 9781621578369 | $29.99 HC author of The Accidental President Regnery History comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time. 9781328585066 | $30.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
30 Biography/History A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s investigation of the “deep state.” “Political junkies and generalists alike will relish this deeply informative account.”—Publishers Weekly, (starred review) 9781324003540 | $30.00 HC W.W. Norton & Company
A deep look at the Midwest’s history of conservative politics that reveals how conservative victories in state houses, legislatures, and national elections in the early 21st century had extensive roots across decades of political organization in the region. 9780700629312 | $29.95 PB University Press of Kansas
Nichols looks at the history of Henry Wallace’s politics and provides readers with insights into the nature of the Democratic Party, and a strategic script for the likes of Matzko tells the story of the 1960s’ far Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Right, who were frustrated by what Ocasio-Cortez. they perceived to be liberal bias in the 9781788737401 | $26.95 HC national media, particularly the media’s Verso sycophantic relationship with the John F. Kennedy administration. 9780190073220 | $34.95 HC Oxford University Press, USA
Spring/Summer 2020 31 A lively, behind-the-scenes look at the historic cohort of diverse, young, and groundbreaking women elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 as they arrive in Washington, D.C., and start working for change. 9781616209995 | $27.95 HC Algonquin Books
With a focus on the inner workings of the bicentennial election, Roessner offers a new perspective on the production and consumption of media images of the peanut farmer from Plains who became the 39th president of the United States. 9780807170793 | $39.95 HC LSU Press
Following an overview of early 20th-century movements, Cottrell focuses on the 1960s to today, offering readers a concise introduction and helping them to understand the political and ideological roots of the Left today. 9781538112922 | $36.00 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
32 Biography/History Through illustrations, graphic panels, photographs, sidebars, and more, acclaimed author Messner smashes history by exploring the little-known details behind the fight for women’s suffrage. (Ages 8 to 12) 9780593120347 | $7.99 PB Random House Books for Young Readers
This adaptation of the book Hillary Clinton calls “a page-turning drama and an inspiration” will spark the attention of young readers and teach them about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women’s suffrage. (Ages 8 to 12) 9780593125182 | $17.99 HC Random House Books for Young Readers
A magnificently researched, dramatically told work of narrative nonfiction about the history, evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and 1940s Through color photographs and as President Franklin Delano essays, Jenkins brings together a Roosevelt’s Black Cabinet. wide selection of cultural objects 9780802129109 | $30.00 HC representing the milestones and Grove Press legacy of the long fight for women’s voting rights. 9781538112793 | $36.00 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Spring/Summer 2020 33 Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records, Fernandez has written the definitive account of the Young Lords, from their roots as a street gang to their rise and fall as a political organization. 9781469653440 | $30.00 HC University of North Carolina Press
Woolf chronicles the history of the ancient Mediterranean city, against the background of wider patterns of human evolution, and of the unforgiving environment in which they were built. Features more than 75 illustrations and maps. 9780199946129 | $34.95 HC Oxford University Press, USA
Vicious battles, powerful monarchs, and royal intrigue abound in this true story of the War of the Roses—a struggle among three brothers, two of whom became kings, and the Based on the popular, When inspiration for Shakespeare’s Diplomacy Fails podcast, Twamley renowned play, Richard III. provides a concise and interesting 9781451694178 | $35.00 HC narrative on the Thirty Years War, Simon & Schuster which influenced the map and course of European history up to 1914. 9781945430091 | $35.00 PB Winged Hussar Publishing
34 Biography/History A historian tells this fascinating story full of contemporary relevance: religious violence, the threat to national security, freedom of religion, and tolerance of dangerous opinions. 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the voyage. 9781643133676 | $28.95 HC Pegasus Books
Instead of depicting the Pilgrims as otherworldly saints or extraordinary sinners, Turner tells how a variety of English settlers and Native peoples engaged in a contest for the meaning of American liberty. 9780300225501 | $30.00 HC Yale University Press
Told with a novelist’s feel for narrative, character, and vivid description, this is the inspiring story of a little-known hero’s pivotal role in the American Revolutionary War. Through illustrations, graphic panels, 9781633886148 | $26.95 HC photographs, sidebars, and more, Prometheus Books acclaimed author Messner smashes history by exploring the little-known details behind the legends of the Mayflower and the first Thanksgiving. (Ages 8 to 12) 9780593120316 | $7.99 PB Random House Books for Young Readers
Spring/Summer 2020 35 A 21st-century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruption. 9781101979860 | $28.00 HC Viking
This magisterial work by a veteran historian blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run—its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications. 9780806144986 | $50.00 HC University of Oklahoma Press
Welker tells, for the first time, the full story of the exciting struggle to control “the Cornfield,” the action on which the costly battle of Antietam turned, in a thorough yet Debunking the myth that the Civil War readable narrative. released the nation from the grip of 9781612008325 | $34.95 HC oligarchy, expunging the sins of the Casemate Founding, Richardson reveals how and why the Old South not only survived in the West, but thrived. 9780190900908 | $27.95 HC Oxford University Press, USA
36 Biography/History Domby focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of fabricated narratives about how the war’s cause, Reconstruction, and slavery—as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies—were crucial to Jim Crow. 9780813943763 | $29.95 HC University of Virginia Press
Drawing upon both primary sources and the best recent historical research, this new look at the case from an award-winning history author explores what really happened at Ford’s Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. 9781621578864 | $27.99 HC Regnery History
This lively collection of essays and feature stories celebrates the novels, popular histories, magazines, movies, television shows, photography, and songs that have enticed Americans to learn more about this dramatic historical era. Covering four of the most consequential 9780809337576 | $26.50 PB months in American history—December Southern Illinois University Press 1860 through April 1861—this thoughtful reassessment reconstructs the beginning of the Civil War, when Lincoln bested his rivals and established himself as commander in chief. 9780811739405 | $29.95 HC Stackpole Books
Spring/Summer 2020 37 Browning and Silver show not Greene draws from extensive Miller’s work illuminates America’s only that the environment research and fieldwork to explore bloody sacrifice during World War influenced the Civil War’s a signal—and appallingly brutal— I, following a single brigade of outcome, but also that the war event in American history: the Marines to measure the impact was a watershed event in the desperate flight of Chief Dull of the U.S. entry into the war and history of the environment itself. Knife’s Northern Cheyenne contribution to ultimate victory. 9781469655383 | $30.00 HC Indians from imprisonment at Fort 9780700629572 | $27.95 PB University of North Carolina Press Robinson, Nebraska. University Press of Kansas 9780806164786 | $29.95 HC University of Oklahoma Press
The first volume in this three-part series deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. 9781107467361 | $39.99 PB Cambridge University Press
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Three-Volume Set 9781316634578 | $99.99 HC Cambridge University Press
38 Biography/History A comprehensive history of the U.S. Ninth Army, from its formation and organization, through its constituent units and commanders to narrative of the key battles it took part in from August 1944 through May 1945. 9781612008288 | $34.95 HC Casemate
The dramatic, untold story of how the American Army was mobilized from scattered outposts two years before Pearl Harbor into the disciplined and mobile fighting force that helped win World War II. 9780802147677 | $30.00 HC Atlantic Monthly Press
Meticulously researched and vividly written, published on the 75th anniversary of the historic Yalta conference, this is the definitive new history of the meeting that reordered the The second volume of Todman’s world at the end of World War II. account of Great Britain and World 9780802147653 | $28.00 HC War II explains complex issues of Atlantic Monthly Press strategy and economics clearly while never losing sight of the human consequences of the way that Britain fought its war. 9780190658489 | $39.95 HC Oxford University Press, USA
Spring/Summer 2020 39 Based on archival documents, primary materials, and secondary sources, this book is formidable in its scope and mastery of the material, posing daring new questions on how Germans reacted to Nazi ideology and what the regime had to offer. 9780190689902 | $34.95 HC Oxford University Press, USA
Drawing on previously unseen military archival records, Hiltner recovers a mostly forgotten chapter of World War II history, demonstrating that the war’s ill effects were felt all over— including by those supposedly safe back home. 9780226687049 | $25.00 HC University of Chicago Press
Sixty-four students from Edison High School in North Philadelphia were killed in the Vietnam War, which is the largest number from any school in the country. Stejskal relates the history of a 9781948460002 | $22.95 PB highly classified U.S. Army Special Righter’s Mill Press LLC Forces Detachment that was covertly stationed in Berlin from 1956 to 1990, poised to act if war broke out between the West and the Soviet Union and its allies. 9781612008431 | $22.95 PB Casemate
40 Biography/History Drawing on original battle maps, official reports, and his and his comrades’ personal journals, Lingamfelter describes the experience of the First Gulf War through a soldier’s eyes and attempts to answer the question of whether the United States “got the job done”. 9780813179209 | $32.95 HC University Press of Kentucky
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dead Certain comes the definitive, revelatory reckoning with arguably the most consequential decision in the history of American foreign policy— the decision to invade Iraq. 9780525561040 | $30.00 HC Penguin Press
In this urgent and timely book, award-winning journalist Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East, charting the fall of ISIS and the The author tells the inside story new power balance between of the close-knit alliance between Turkey, Israel, and Iran. two top intelligence services, and 9781839760402 | $29.95 HC how one joint operation became a Verso turning point in the historic battle against the Islamic State. 9781335013835 | $28.99 HC Hanover Square Press
Spring/Summer 2020 41 Fatland takes readers on an unforgettable journey through Central Asia, a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. 9781643133263 | $28.95 HC Pegasus Books
Nine essays investigate the influence, struggles, and contributions of Latin American and Caribbean societies to the Olympic Movement, defining how the nations of this region have shaped and been shaped by the Movement. 9781682261101 | $29.95 PB University of Arkansas Press
Acclaimed historian McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. 9781538121283 | $26.95 HC Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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This authoritative, accessible and engaging four-volume boxed set history vividly presents the Irish story—or stories—from c.600 to the present, within its broader Atlantic, European, imperial and global contexts. 9781316617830 | $130.00 PB Cambridge University Press
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Spring/Summer 2020 43 The definitive biography of one of the most dangerous demagogues in American history, based on exclusive access to his personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings. 9781328959720 | $36.00 HC Houghton Mifflin
From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 bestselling memoir, Duty, comes a candid, sweeping examination of power in all its manifestations exercised by American presidents in the post- Cold War world. 9781524731885 | $29.95 HC Knopf Publishing Group
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Blitzed comes the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin. A New York Times bestseller, O’Brady’s 9781328566300 | $28.00 HC awe-inspiring memoir spans his Houghton Mifflin triumphant recovery from a tragic accident to his gripping 932-mile solo crossing of Antarctica. 9781982133115 | $28.00 HC Scribner Book Company
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