Book interviews tagged Biography
GIANTS: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
- ISBN: 978 0 446 58009 0
- featured in: Douglass’s and Lincoln’s intertwined story of change and self-making is the nation’s storyDecember 5, 2008
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
- ISBN: 978 0 374 22998 6
- featured in: A glimpse into the intellectual life of early modern EuropeJanuary 30, 2009
Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand
- ISBN: 978 0 19 536988 5
- featured in: I want Hans Litten to become better known on this side of the AtlanticFebruary 10, 2009
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
- ISBN: 978 0295987521
- featured in: The other half of Edward Said’s Orientalism—and of three decades of polemicsApril 3, 2009
Carl Hagenbeck’s Empire of Entertainments
- ISBN: 978 0 295 98833 7
- featured in: Challenging the idea of theme space as an essentially American phenomenonMay 4, 2009
Global Lives: Britain and the World, 1550-1800
- ISBN: 978 0 521607186 pb
- featured in: Explaining global processes through the lives of people who are part of themMay 8, 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009
The American 1930s: A Literary History
- ISBN: 978 0521734318
- featured in: Against the simplification of history
June 12, 2009
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009
Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920
- ISBN: 978 0812241747
- featured in: A kind of prehistory of our own media-saturated cultureAugust 31, 2009
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism
- ISBN: 978 0674032583
- featured in: Even in a simple color scheme, there is no red without blue and no blue without redSeptember 11, 2009
Others in Mind: Social Origins of Self-Consciousness
- ISBN: 978 0521729659
- featured in: Psychic life is determined by what we imagine others perceive of usNovember 25, 2009
The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
- ISBN: 978 0231145664
- featured in: Bertolucci called us a kind of wild cinema universityNovember 27, 2009
Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
- ISBN: 978 0872864917
- featured in: Both Iraqis and Americans are victims and pawns in power plays beyond their controlDecember 25, 2009
Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution
- ISBN: 978 0393070798
- featured in: Bringing to light what Trotsky could only adumbrate in his biography of the young LeninJanuary 22, 2010
Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped
- ISBN: 978 0393066159
- featured in: The real-life saga of James Annesley
January 25, 2010
Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power
- ISBN: 978 0674036246
- featured in: Lord Macaulay was an emotionally myopic genius imbued with the sensibility of powerJanuary 29, 2010
Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
- ISBN: 978 080189370 4
- featured in: Why can’t I just write a normal history book?February 3, 2010
Le Corbusier and the Occult
- ISBN: 978 0262026482
- featured in: You will hate this book if you want to believe in the innocence of geniusFebruary 19, 2010
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
- ISBN: 978 0312364014
- featured in: The atheist proponents of revolution dreamt of martyrdom for the causeMarch 1, 2010
Monument Wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape
- ISBN: 978 0520256545
- featured in: I propose moratorium on permanent public monuments in Washington; experimentation with temporary memorialsMarch 3, 2010
The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial
- ISBN: 978 0300124842
- featured in: Sacco and Vanzetti were executed not in spite of global protest but because of itMarch 5, 2010
Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years
- ISBN: 978 0 307 27344 4
- featured in: A story that Mark Twain was determined no one would ever tellMarch 15, 2010
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- ISBN: 978 1405126359
- featured in: She is the literary equivalent of the Mona Lisa’s smile: absence is her essenceMarch 17, 2010
Calvin
- ISBN: 978 0300120769
- featured in: Calvin was always in the process of becoming CalvinApril 21, 2010
Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz
- ISBN: 978 0 691 12762 0
- featured in: The whole of the American Empire in six brief biographiesApril 28, 2010
King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age
- ISBN: 978 0801893971
- featured in: Whenever lobbyists, clients, and congressmen come together, Sam is thereMay 7, 2010
Jazz Icons: Heroes, Myths and the Jazz Tradition
- ISBN: 978 0521896450
- featured in: How and why legendary figures are needed to tell historical storiesAugust 9, 2010
