New Books in Biography

From the noted Hollywood biographer comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren B... Read more

The nineteenth century witnessed a flurry of evangelical and missionary activity in Europe and North America. This was a... Read more

Of some twelve thousand Union Civil War surgeons, only fourteen were Black men. This book is the first-ever comprehensiv... Read more

Alongside their collective acumen in traditional historical-critical and social-scientific approaches to the New Testame... Read more

As the last few months of landmark Supreme Court decisions have showcased, Clarence Thomas is one of the most important ... Read more

A fascinating exploration of George Orwell--and his body of work--by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, ... Read more

Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringin... Read more

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant American political thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume colle... Read more

Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, ... Read more

In April 2014, David Bromwich spoke at the Institute about his forthcoming book, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: ... Read more