Michael Broer, “Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny” (Pegasus, 2015)
Most biographers writing about the life and achievements of Napoleon Bonaparte have focused on his dramatic personality or his military campaigns. In Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny (Pegasus, 2015) the i...
13 Mai 201650min
Ingrid Carlberg, “Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography” (MacLehose Press, 2016)
What makes a person? What makes an act heroic? And what determines a person’s fate? These are the questions driving the narrative in Ingrid Carlberg‘s new book, Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography (MacLeh...
4 Mai 201633min
Peter L. Laurence, “Becoming Jane Jacobs” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
Peter L. Laurence is an associate professor of urban design, history and theory at Clemson University School of Architecture. His book Becoming Jane Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) is ...
30 Apr 20161h 2min
Harlan Lebo, “Citizen Kane: A Filmmakers Journey” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2016)
Considered by many to be the greatest American film ever made, Citizen Kane was the product of Orson Welles, who made a movie that is still groundbreaking today. In his new book Citizen Kane: A Filmma...
19 Apr 20161h 11min
Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)
“There still exists little organized sense of what a woman’s biography or autobiography should look like,” Carolyn G. Heilbrun wrote in her 1988 classic, Writing A Woman’s Life, noting, “Even less has...
19 Apr 201640min
Shai Held, “Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence” (Indiana UP, 2013)
In Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence (Indiana University Press, 2013), Shai Held, Co-Founder, Dean and Chair in Jewish Thought at Mechon Hadar, offers a sympathetic, yet critical, exam...
16 Feb 201630min
Julie Des Jardins, “Walter Camp: Football and the Modern Man” (Oxford University Press, 2015)
In anticipation of Super Bowl 50, Sports Illustrated and WIRED magazines teamed up to speculate about the state of football fifty years from now, at the time of Super Bowl 100. Of course, the big ques...
6 Feb 201656min
Sarah Maza, “Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris” (U. of California Press, 2012)
On August 21, 1933, the teenaged Violette Noziere attempted to kill both her parents. At first, seemingly so clearcut, the case ultimately came to be characterized by a “troubling ambiguity” that uns...
18 Des 201549min
