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Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
59 mins; January 09, 2025
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
57 mins; January 07, 2025
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
62 hours 54 mins; January 05, 2025
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
53 mins; January 03, 2025
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
62 hours 0 mins; January 02, 2025
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
93 hours 12 mins; January 01, 2025
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
62 hours 8 mins; December 31, 2024
Susanna Ashton, "A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin" (New Press, 2024)
90 hours 2 mins; December 29, 2024
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022)
77 hours 53 mins; December 29, 2024
Emily Herring, "Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People" (Basic Books, 2024)
66 hours 1 min; December 29, 2024
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
79 hours 10 mins; December 28, 2024
Daniel B. Hinshaw, "Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga" (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023)
97 hours 1 min; December 27, 2024
Linda M. Clemmons, "Unrepentant Dakota Woman: Angelique Renville & the Struggle for Indigenous Identity, 1845-1876" (SDHS Press, 2023)
57 mins; December 22, 2024
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024)
116 hours 31 mins; December 21, 2024
Paul French, "Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)
48 mins; December 19, 2024
Dianne Ashton and Melissa R. Klapper, "The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai" (NYU Press, 2024)
58 mins; December 15, 2024
Emanuela Trevisan Semi, "Taamrat Emmanuel: An Ethiopian Jewish Intellectual, Between Colonized and Colonizers" (Centro Primo Levi, 2018)
98 hours 27 mins; December 14, 2024
David J. Collins, SJ, "Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician" (Penn State UP, 2024)
67 hours 26 mins; December 12, 2024
Beth Kaplan, "Finding the Jewish Shakespeare: The Life and Legacy of Jacob Gordin" (Syracuse UP, 2007)
69 hours 6 mins; December 12, 2024
Rebecca Brenner Graham, "Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany" (Citadel Press, 2025)
45 mins; December 10, 2024
Henri Colt, "Becoming Modigliani" (Rake Press, 2024)
56 mins; December 09, 2024
F. K. Clementi, "South of My Dreams: Finding My American Home, A Memoir" (U South Carolina Press, 2024)
55 mins; December 09, 2024
Marlene L. Daut, "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, 2025)
70 hours 49 mins; December 08, 2024
Jane Austen's Darkness: A Conversation with Julia Yost
54 mins; December 04, 2024
Julie Salverson, "A Necessary Distance: Confessions of a Scriptwriter's Daughter" (Wolsak and Wynn, 2024)
34 mins; December 01, 2024
Keith Gandal, "Firsthand: How I Solved a Literary Mystery and Learned to Play Kickass Tennis While Coming to Grips with the Disorder of Things" (U Michigan Press, 2024)
42 mins; December 01, 2024
Johanna Drucker, "Iliazd: A Meta-Biography of a Modernist" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020)
67 hours 57 mins; November 29, 2024
Seth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
72 hours 59 mins; November 29, 2024
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
72 hours 57 mins; November 28, 2024
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
83 hours 9 mins; November 27, 2024
Cornelia M. Spelman, "Solace" (Jackleg Press, 2024)
46 mins; November 20, 2024
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
54 mins; November 18, 2024
Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
81 hours 28 mins; November 17, 2024
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
37 mins; November 17, 2024
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
58 mins; November 16, 2024
David Tereshchuk, "A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter" (Envelope Books, 2024)
59 mins; November 15, 2024
Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)
62 hours 57 mins; November 13, 2024
Janusz Korczak, "How to Love a Child and Other Selected Works" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018)
88 hours 50 mins; November 12, 2024
Paul M. Renfro, "The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America" (UNC Press, 2024)
33 mins; November 10, 2024
Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide" (SFWP, 2024)
53 mins; November 09, 2024
James M. Bradley, "Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician" (Oxford UP, 2024)
96 hours 59 mins; November 08, 2024
John Duffus, "Backstage in Hong Kong: A Life with the Philharmonic, Broadway Musicals and Classical Superstars" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
63 hours 50 mins; November 07, 2024
Karine Rashkovsky, "An Improbable Life: My Father's Escape from Soviet Russia" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2024)
41 mins; November 05, 2024
Douglas J. Engelman, "A Boy Broken: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Mental Illness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning" (2023)
44 mins; November 04, 2024
Avi Shlaim, "Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew" (Oneworld, 2024)
61 hours 37 mins; November 03, 2024
Mirin Fader, "Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon" (Hachette, 2024)
46 mins; November 02, 2024
Phuc Tran, "Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In" (Flatiron Books, 2020)
38 mins; November 02, 2024
Richard Schoch, "How Sondheim Can Change Your Life" (Atria Books, 2024)
59 mins; November 01, 2024
Ronald Drabkin, "Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor" (William Morrow, 2024)
42 mins; October 31, 2024
Rajbir Singh Judge, "Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia" (Columbia UP, 2024)
49 mins; October 30, 2024
Sharon Kinoshita, "Marco Polo and His World" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
48 mins; October 26, 2024
Bob Frishman, "Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803" (APS Press, 2024)
46 mins; October 23, 2024
S. L. Wisenberg, "The Adventures of Cancer Bitch" (Tortoise Books, 2024)
25 mins; October 22, 2024
John Freed, “Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth” (Yale UP, 2016)
73 hours 3 mins; October 22, 2024
Anne Higonnet, "Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution" (Norton, 2024)
47 mins; October 18, 2024
Amy Reading, "The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker" (Mariner Books, 2024)
56 mins; October 18, 2024
Thomas Weber, “Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi” (Basic Books, 2017)
71 hours 9 mins; October 18, 2024
Suganya Anandakichenin, "The Monsoon Cloud: Poet Kāḷamēkam and His Irreverent Poetry" (Primus, 2024)
35 mins; October 17, 2024
Jennifer Lang, "Landed: A Yogi's Memoir in Pieces & Poses" (Vine Leaves Press, 2024)
44 mins; October 17, 2024
Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, "Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa" (U California Press, 2023)
66 hours 58 mins; October 16, 2024
Jackie Wang, "Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood" (Semiotext(e), 2023)
78 hours 15 mins; October 14, 2024
Aliza Arzt, "Turning the Pages: Conversations Through Time with Rabbi Isador Signer" (Ben Yehuda Press, 2024)
76 hours 1 min; October 13, 2024
Robert Gerwarth, “Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich” (Yale UP, 2012)
67 hours 28 mins; October 09, 2024
Iris Jamahl Dunkle, "Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb" (U California Press, 2024)
52 mins; October 06, 2024
Christopher Paul Clohessy, "Half of My Heart: The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of Alî" (Gorgias Press, 2020)
40 mins; October 06, 2024
Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action
59 mins; October 03, 2024
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav, "Being Hindu, Being Indian: Lala Lajpat Rai’s Ideas of Nationhood" (India Viking, 2024)
62 hours 2 mins; September 29, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012)
99 hours 30 mins; September 24, 2024
Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024)
39 mins; September 24, 2024
Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024)
40 mins; September 23, 2024
Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024)
50 mins; September 22, 2024
Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
80 hours 58 mins; September 22, 2024
Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024)
63 hours 59 mins; September 21, 2024
Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
52 mins; September 19, 2024
Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024)
55 mins; September 19, 2024
William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010)
132 hours 4 mins; September 18, 2024
Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
57 mins; September 17, 2024
Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023)
41 mins; September 16, 2024
Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023)
98 hours 18 mins; September 13, 2024
Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)
50 mins; September 12, 2024
Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024)
44 mins; September 11, 2024
Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
54 mins; September 08, 2024
Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020)
72 hours 6 mins; September 07, 2024
Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023)
44 mins; September 07, 2024
Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024)
54 mins; September 06, 2024
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018)
60 hours 29 mins; September 06, 2024
James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024)
57 mins; September 06, 2024
Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024)
45 mins; September 03, 2024
Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
44 mins; September 03, 2024
Sanjay Lal, "Gandhi's Thought and Liberal Democracy" (Lexington Books, 2019)
53 mins; September 02, 2024
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)
51 mins; September 01, 2024
Lise Butler, "Michael Young, Social Science, and the British Left, 1945-1970" (Oxford UP, 2020)
74 hours 59 mins; August 30, 2024
Ludovico Silva, "Marx's Literary Style" (Verso, 2023)
68 hours 3 mins; August 28, 2024
Christopher Lovins, "King Chŏngjo: An Enlightened Despot in Early Modern Korea" (SUNY Press, 2019)
72 hours 34 mins; August 27, 2024
Steve Moriarty, "Mia Zapata and the Gits: A True Story of Art, Rock and Revolution" (Ferel House, 2024)
55 mins; August 26, 2024
Adam Zamoyski, "Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess" (William Collins, 2024)
56 mins; August 24, 2024
Rachel Kousser, "Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great" (Mariner Books, 2024)
46 mins; August 22, 2024
Lesley Smith, "Fragments of a World: William of Auvergne and His Medieval Life" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
41 mins; August 16, 2024
Shaul Magid, "Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical" (Princeton UP, 2021)
64 hours 11 mins; August 15, 2024
A Hidden Life (with Brian Zahnd)
67 hours 35 mins; August 15, 2024
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