Book interviews tagged Biography
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
