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On this episode Bob D'Angelo is joined by Mitchell Nathanson, author of BOUTON (Univ Nebraska Press), which examines the life of Jim Bouton, a journeyman pitcher whose 1970 book, “Ball Four,” was a lightning rod for controversy. Learn more on the podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/mitchell-natha…

In SEMMELWEIS: The Women’s Doctor (Zantedeschi Books), Anthony Valerio details the many struggles Ignaz Semmelweis faced in winning acceptance for his advice on antiseptic procedures. Learn more as Valerio discusses his new biography on the podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/anthony-valeri…

Tho' not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. On this episode of the podcast Frank Dimatteo discusses LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia w/Mark Klobas. 👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/frank-dimatteo…

FLASH (Henry Holt & Company) tells the story of #Weegee's life from his childhood as a Lower East Side immigrant street kid to his years photographing murder scenes to his experiments with caricatures of celebrities. Tune in as Robert W. Snyder chats w/Christopher Bonanos ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/christopher-bo…

Our guest for this episode is Dr Theresa Kaminski, the PhD kind. Tune in as she sits down with Mark Klobas to discuss her new biography, DR. MARY WALKER'S CIVIL WAR (Lyons Press): One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights (Lyons Press) 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/theresa-kamins…

Chatting with Sasha Abramsky about his new book, "Little Wonder," about tennis great Lottie Dod. On NB Sports 📚 newbooksnetwork.com/sasha-abramsky… #tennis Akashic Books #wimbledon NB Biography 📚 #newbooksnetwork

On this episode of the podcast Victoria de Grazia joins @craig_sorvillo to discuss THE PERFECT FASCIST (Harvard University Press), her new book that peers into the life of the vain, loyal, lecherous, and impetuous Attilio Teruzzi, an exemplar of fascism’s New Man. newbooksnetwork.com/victoria-de-gr…

Tho' theology is often regarded as dealing with abstract issues of belief, the English Puritan John Owen focused on the role of Christian faith in one’s everyday life. Tune in as GribbenC 🇫🇴 discusses his new book, AN INTRODUCTION to JOHN OWEN (Crossway)👇 newbooksnetwork.com/crawford-gribb…

In ALL the HORRORS of WAR (Hopkins Press), Bernice Lerner describes the lives of two people – one of them her mother, the other the man who helped save her – and how they intersected when British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen. 🎙️Lerner joins Mark Klobas 👇 newbooksnetwork.com/bernice-lerner…

Tune in as @morrisardoin joins @marsjf3 to fill us in on STONE MOTEL (Univ Press of MS), his new memoir that gives us suspense, awkward romance, naughty French lessons and an insider’s take on a truly remarkable, not-yet-homogenized pocket of American culture.👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/morris-ardoin-…

On this episode Maria Hinojosa 🥑 joins @djgonzoPhD to give us the rundown on ONCE I WAS YOU (Atria Books), Hinojosa's intimate new #memoir that shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the South Side of Chicago. Give the podcast a listen ↙️ newbooksnetwork.com/maria-hinojosa…

Awash with colorful characters, A TRAITOR to HIS SPECIES (Basic Books) chronicles how Henry Bergh fought with robber barons, gangs, and P.T. Barnum as he pushed for new laws to protect trolley horses, livestock, stray dogs, and other animals. Learn more👇 newbooksnetwork.com/ernest-freeber…

Jean Wade Rindlaub sold a dream of domesticity and prosperity delivered through free-market capitalism and a Christian corporate order. Learn about the THE ANGEL in the MARKETPLACE (UChicagoPress) as @EllenWaylands discusses the book with @LilianBarger👇 newbooksnetwork.com/ellen-wayland-…

Born ca. 1820, Augusta Browne was a pianist, organist, composer, pedagogue, entrepreneur, critic, and writer. Bonny Miller's new book, AUGUSTA BROWNE (B&B Music) contextualizes the life and work of this remarkable woman. Miller joins @kmturner1967👇 newbooksnetwork.com/bonny-h-miller…

A.C. Pigou may not be as well known today as his contemporary John Maynard Keynes, but as Ian Kumekawa shows in THE FIRST SERIOUS OPTIMIST: A.C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics (Princeton University Press), he advanced ideas that remain very relevant.👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/ian-kumekawa-t…

LOUIS KAHN: Architecture as Philosophy (The Monacelli Press) explores how Kahn's focus on structure, respect for materials, clarity of program, and reverence for details manifest an overall philosophy. 🎙️Kahn specialist John Lobell joins us on the podcast ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/john-lobell-lo…

Listen in as @jacksonjane14 joins Ryan Driskell Tate to discuss RACE and the WILD WEST (OU Press), her new #biography of Sarah Bickford, a former slave who promoted tourism at the site of a famous lynching of white “lawbreakers” by the Montana Vigilantes ⤵️ newbooksnetwork.com/laura-j-arata-…

"Robert Eisler's life sounds like something Thomas Pynchon and Roberto Bolaño might have brainstormed for a shared character." 🗣️Scott McLemee discusses A Very Square Peg: The Strange and Remarkable Life of the Polymath Robert Eisler (A Very Square Peg: A Podcast about Robert Eisler) ⬇ insidehighered.com/views/2020/12/…

Clocking in at 1000+ pages, NIETZSCHE, the ARISTOCRATIC REBEL (Haymarket Books) delivers a rigorous & systematic account of Nietzsche’s thought, revealing a #Nietzsche committed to fighting against the democratic movements happening all around him. 👂👇 newbooksnetwork.com/nietzsche-the-…