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Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
42 mins; November 08, 2025
David T. Beito, "FDR: A New Political Life" (Open Universe, 2025)
32 mins; November 07, 2025
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
55 mins; November 06, 2025
Mark L. Clifford, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic" (Free Press, 2024)
89 hours 57 mins; November 04, 2025
Elizabeth R. Hyman, "The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising" (Harper, 2025)
40 mins; November 03, 2025
Rob Wells, "The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall Street" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
23 mins; October 31, 2025
Brian Baker, "The Road" (Akashic Books, 2025)
34 mins; October 29, 2025
Diane Ravitch, "An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else" (Columbia UP, 2025)
62 hours 58 mins; October 28, 2025
Patrick Parr, "Malcolm Before X" (U Massachusetts Press, 2024)
26 mins; October 26, 2025
Ashley D. Farmer, "Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore" (Pantheon, 2025)
25 mins; October 25, 2025
Sarah Smarsh, "Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class" ï»ż(Scribner, 2024)
64 hours 56 mins; October 25, 2025
Abhimanyu Kumar and Aletta André, "The House of Awadh: A Hidden Tragedy" (HarperCollins India, 2025)
45 mins; October 23, 2025
Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)
55 mins; October 22, 2025
Peter C. Zimmerman, "The Jazz Masters: Setting the Record Straight" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
56 mins; October 21, 2025
Maurice Samuels, "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair" (Yale UP, 2024)
39 mins; October 21, 2025
Stephen Fritz, "The First Soldier: Hitler as a Military Leader" (Yale UP, 2018)
76 hours 34 mins; October 20, 2025
Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)
60 hours 44 mins; October 20, 2025
Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
59 mins; October 19, 2025
Hilary Holladay, "The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
57 mins; October 17, 2025
Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)
48 mins; October 16, 2025
Mahboob Qirvanian and Behnaz Mirzai, "Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran" (U Toronto Press, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; October 14, 2025
Nicolae Steinhardt, "The Journal of Joy" (SVS Press, 2025)
94 hours 50 mins; October 09, 2025
Marion Orr, "House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr." (UNC Press, 2025)
59 mins; October 06, 2025
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, "Music at World's End: Three Exiled Musicians from Nazi Germany and Austria and Their Contribution to Music in Iceland" (SUNY Press, 2025)
55 mins; October 04, 2025
Sarah Hurwitz, "As a Jew: Reclaiming Our Story from Those Who Blame, Shame, and Try to Erase Us" (HarperOne, 2025)
50 mins; October 04, 2025
Raymond J. McKoski, "David Davis, Abraham Lincoln's Favorite Judge" (U Illinois Press, 2025)
57 mins; October 03, 2025
Eibhear Walshe and Eleanor Fitzsimons, "Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde" (Liverpool UP, 2025)
37 mins; October 01, 2025
Roddy Bottum, "The Royal We" (Akashic Books, 2025)
51 mins; October 01, 2025
Katie Herzog, "Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
55 mins; September 30, 2025
Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
61 hours 10 mins; September 29, 2025
Scott Beekman, "The Last Gladiator: William Muldoon and the Making of American Sports" (U Texas Press, 2025)
41 mins; September 28, 2025
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, "Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector" (Lund Humphries, 2025)
62 hours 32 mins; September 27, 2025
Árni Heimir Ingólfsson, "Jón Leifs and the Musical Invention of Iceland" (Indiana UP, 2019)
68 hours 17 mins; September 27, 2025
Robert Waxler and David Beckman, "You Say, I Say: Staying Alive with Literature, Language, and Friendship" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
49 mins; September 25, 2025
Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, and Stan Altman, "Twice Blessed: A Story of Unconditional Love" (Fordham UP, 2025)
52 mins; September 22, 2025
Shulamit Reinharz, "Hiding in Holland: A Resistance Memoir" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2024)
60 hours 29 mins; September 21, 2025
I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom
56 mins; September 18, 2025
James Campion, "Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era" (Backbeat Books, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; September 18, 2025
Hadi Abdullah, "Critical Conditions: My Diary of the Syrian Revolution" (Doppelhouse Press, 2025)
62 hours 52 mins; September 17, 2025
Steven J. Zipperstein, "Philip Roth: Stung by Life" (Yale UP, 2025)
60 hours 38 mins; September 17, 2025
“Plato and the Tyrant” with author James Romm
58 mins; September 13, 2025
William Kelleher Storey, "The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 41 mins; September 08, 2025
Edward Stanley et. al., "A North American Tour Journal 1824-1825: The Making of a Prime Minister" (Sutton Publishing, 2025)
39 mins; September 06, 2025
Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, "Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free" (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
37 mins; September 05, 2025
Susana M. Morris, "Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler" (Amistad Press, 2025)
54 mins; September 02, 2025
Tracy Slater, "Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp" (Chicago Review Press, 2025)
42 mins; August 28, 2025
Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)
42 mins; August 27, 2025
Micaela Sahhar, "Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An Encyclopaedia of a Palestinian Family" (Newsouth, 2025)
62 hours 42 mins; August 27, 2025
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpurs & the Police Killing That Galvanized New York City" (Beacon, 2025)
68 hours 3 mins; August 25, 2025
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Basic Books, 2019)
29 mins; August 24, 2025
Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune" (Ballantine, 2013)
57 mins; August 23, 2025
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2025)
57 mins; August 22, 2025
Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimists Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2025)
74 hours 23 mins; August 21, 2025
Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a Life with Epilepsy ï»ż(U of Minnesota Press, 2025)
31 mins; August 20, 2025
Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba from Empire to Exile" (Penguin Press, 2018)
62 hours 8 mins; August 17, 2025
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spirit of Capitalism: Weber’s Calling” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
73 hours 10 mins; August 16, 2025
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (Norton, 2025)
72 hours 40 mins; August 16, 2025
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Backbeat Books, 2023)
45 mins; August 15, 2025
W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete Story Revealed" (Knox Press, 2025)
62 hours 20 mins; August 14, 2025
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic Bridges (1938-1947" (Centro Primo Levi, 2023)
112 hours 42 mins; August 13, 2025
Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)
63 hours 8 mins; August 13, 2025
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
43 mins; August 12, 2025
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left" (Brill, 2025)
100 hours 37 mins; August 11, 2025
Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of Shame: Leadership, Legacy, and National Identity in China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
47 mins; August 09, 2025
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our Lives
51 mins; August 07, 2025
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's Quest, a Forgotten History, and a Modern-Day Crisis" (Beacon Press, 2025)
43 mins; August 06, 2025
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Roman People" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
87 hours 12 mins; August 04, 2025
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst & Co., 2025)
50 mins; July 31, 2025
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J. L. Edmonds, the Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America" (Oxford UP, 2025)
49 mins; July 30, 2025
Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
46 mins; July 30, 2025
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
66 hours 20 mins; July 29, 2025
Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
66 hours 20 mins; July 28, 2025
Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
60 hours 8 mins; July 27, 2025
Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
72 hours 2 mins; July 26, 2025
Cynthia Blakeley, "The Innermost House: A Memoir" (Bright Leaf, 2024)
58 mins; July 24, 2025
M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa" (Columbia UP, 2020)
41 mins; July 20, 2025
Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age" (UP Kansas, 2020)
63 hours 46 mins; July 20, 2025
David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)
47 mins; July 17, 2025
Brendan O'Meara, "The Front Runner: The Life of Steve Prefontaine" (HarperCollins, 2025)
58 mins; July 15, 2025
Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots" (Berlinn, 2025)
37 mins; July 12, 2025
S1.E7. Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
45 mins; July 07, 2025
John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural Fantasy and Its Manuscript Contexts" (Arc Humanities Press, 2024)
36 mins; July 06, 2025
Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
52 mins; July 05, 2025
Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining: A Memoir in Four Floods" (Milkweed Editions, 2025)
62 hours 8 mins; June 29, 2025
John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-Off Broadway" (Applause, 2024)
55 mins; June 29, 2025
Keith Merith, "A Darker Shade of Blue: A Police Officer's Memoir" (ECW Press, 2024)
75 hours 54 mins; June 28, 2025
John P. Gribbin, "Gribbin: A Family History of Ulster" (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2023)
37 mins; June 28, 2025
Zachary Gorman, "The Young Menzies: Success, Failure, Resilience 1894-1942" (Melbourne UP, 2022)
65 hours 21 mins; June 27, 2025
Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual" (AUC Press, 2025)
34 mins; June 26, 2025
Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Madison, and the Forging of a Friendship" (Oxford UP, 2025)
38 mins; June 26, 2025
Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir" (Ten Speed Graphic, 2025)
23 mins; June 25, 2025
Christopher Clarey, "The Warrior: Rafael Nadal and His Kingdom of Clay" (Grand Central Publishing, 2025)
75 hours 22 mins; June 24, 2025
The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary Edition of On Bullshit with Pamela Hieronymi
36 mins; June 24, 2025
Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectual Life of Benjamin Franklin" (Oxford UP, 2025)
40 mins; June 23, 2025
Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64" (SUNY Press, 2023)
106 hours 15 mins; June 23, 2025
David P. Celani, "Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
106 hours 58 mins; June 18, 2025
Rob Edwards, "Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls" (Stranger Comics, 2025)
33 mins; June 17, 2025
Andreas Beyer, "Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist" (Reaktion, 2025)
46 mins; June 17, 2025
Ana Hebra Flaster, "Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town" (She Writes Press, 2025)
63 hours 1 min; June 16, 2025
Barbara Allen, "Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction" (Reaktion, 2025)
67 hours 3 mins; June 16, 2025
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