New Books in Biography
Interviews with Biographers about their New Books
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- Description
- Interviews with Biographers about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-04 21:06
- last episode published
- 2025-01-03 09:00
- publication frequency
- 3.73 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- 1650
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-03 | What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick and author of the Progressive Geographies blog,... |
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| 2025-01-01 | At the end of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved widow and mother living in Massachusetts. Hearing the words of the new Massachusetts state constitution which declared liberty and equality for all, she sought the help of a young... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018) The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studies on Hysteria, the good doctor from Vienna continues to stir controversy in institutions, academic circ... |
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| 2024-12-29 | In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher Stowe hid a fugitive slave in her house. While John Andrew Jackson stayed for only one night, he made a lasting impression: drawing from this experience, Stowe began to writ... |
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| 2024-12-29 | Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People (Basic Books, 2024) is the first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At... |
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| 2024-12-29 |
Harvey J. Kaye, "The British Marxist Historians" (Zero Book, 2022) The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Kaye looks at Ma... |
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| 2024-12-28 |
Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020) Who is Jacques Derrida? For some, he is the originator of a relativist philosophy responsible for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosoph... |
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| 2024-12-27 | Today I talked to Daniel B. Hinshaw about his book Journey to Simplicity: The Life and Wisdom of Archimandrite Roman Braga (St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2023). The events of Fr Roman Braga’s life unfolded on three continents in complex and tumultuous t... |
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| 2024-12-22 | For much of her life, Angelique Renville had decisions made for her. Where to live, who to live with, where to attend school, what to do with her land. That changed in 1863 when she made a plan and successfully hatched her plan to escape, living the en... |
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| 2024-12-21 |
Joseph McBride, "George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director" (Columbia UP, 2024) The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood. Reductively stereotyped in his time as a "woman's director"-a... |
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