New Books, 3/5/19

Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Simone Weil’s tragedy Venice Saved

Upper West Side Catholics: Liberal Catholicism in a Conservative Archdiocese

Some memoirs of Anthony Kenny

Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography

Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov

Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter

The Season: A History of the Debutante

Tom Holland’s new book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

Stanley Fish’s The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump

William Dalrymple’s The Anarchy: How a Corporation Replaced the Mughal Empire, 1756-1803

Matt Stoller’s Goliath: How Monopolies Secretly Took Over the World

Stig Abell, editor of the TLS How Britain Really Works: Understanding the Ideas and Institutions of a Nation

Bill Bryson’s The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Roger Crowley’s The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens

A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

Hitler: A Global Biography

Hitler: A Biography

Dan Jones’s Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands

John Jeremiah Sullivan’s The Prime Minister of Paradise: The True Story of a Lost American History

Daisy Dunn’s The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

What appears to be a placeholder page for Eric Metaxas’s upcoming memoir Fish out of Water

Eric Foner’s The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

The Patrick Leigh Fermor Boxed Set

Edmund Morris’s Edison

Martha Nussbaum’s The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis

Desmond Seward’s The King Over the Water: The Jacobite Cause 1689-1807

The Song of Simon de Montfort: The Life and Death of a Medieval Revolutionary

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World

A.N. Wilson’s new Prince Albert

A Christian and a Democrat: A Religious Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leo Strauss on Hegel

Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil

The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century

Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

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