"The First Fascist" is Sergio Luzzatto’s absorbing biography of the Marquis de Morès, covering how he came to lead an antisemitic movement in the late 1800s that was later defined as fascist. The French son of former Italian nobility... Read More

Vladimir Putin’s grip on Russia’s wealth is examined in the fascinating graphic novel Putin’s Fortune. In 1990, the book shows, Russia’s wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few men, made fewer through a number of... Read More

A murder in the Reconstruction-era South is excavated in Sylvester Allen Jr. and Belle Boggs’s history book "The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw". Following the conclusion of the Civil War, small-town citizens in places like Graham, North... Read More

Progressing at the taut pace of an espionage novel, "Fighting Back" is the engrossing biography of a defiant, passionate Jewish American soldier. Jeffrey and Craig Weiss’s gripping biography "Fighting Back" explores the brief yet... Read More

The twin victories at Pensacola and Yorktown would not have been possible without the influence of a particular Spanish royal commissioner, suggests the thorough biography Francisco de Saavedra’s American Revolutionary War. James... Read More

Detailed and expressive, the biographical novellas of "Raising Genius" muse through parental influences on creative minds. Dramatizing the early childhoods and complicated family lives of three world-renowned visionaries, Nam Nguyen’s... Read More

Sun Yung Shin and Mélina Mangal’s innovative dual biography Revolutions Are Made of Love, combines paired poems with beautiful illustrations. Activists James and Grace Lee Boggs built a lasting social justice and civil rights movement... Read More

Giles Tremlett’s biography of Francisco Franco traces his fast rise through Spain’s military to take lasting totalitarian control of the nation. Focusing on a span from the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 until Franco’s death... Read More