Category: Biography

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With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff.  Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…

With academic meetings, book launches, and the start of holiday signings, November is a hectic month for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff.  Highlights include an all-day symposium to welcome the publication of The Story Within: Personal Essays on Genetics and Identity along with the annual celebration of University Press Week from November 11 to…

October continues a lively fall season for JHU Press authors, editors, and staff. One notable three-day stretch includes the launch of Michael Olesker’s new book, Front Stoops in the Fifties, at Baltimore’s Pratt Library on October 21; a stellar gathering at JHU/SAIS in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the publication of ZBIG: The Strategy and Statecraft…

News and Notes Take a peak inside our latest Political Science Catalog, covering International Relations, Democracy Studies, Security Studies, and American Politics. Charles Rzepka, author of Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard, wrote a moving eulogy honoring the late author, who passed away last month. Michelle Ann Abate, author of Bloody Murder: The Homicide…

News and Notes Take a peak inside our latest Political Science Catalog, covering International Relations, Democracy Studies, Security Studies, and American Politics. Charles Rzepka, author of Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard, wrote a moving eulogy honoring the late author, who passed away last month. Michelle Ann Abate, author of Bloody Murder: The Homicide…

Guest post by Charles Gati Zbig is the first comprehensive portrait of Zbigniew Brzezinski. It deals with his long and distinguished career as a professor, an academic, a National Security Adviser to President Carter, a widely-known observer, and a critic of U.S. foreign policy. In the 1950s, Brzezinski was already an outstanding academic at Harvard. In the…

Guest post by Charles Gati Zbig is the first comprehensive portrait of Zbigniew Brzezinski. It deals with his long and distinguished career as a professor, an academic, a National Security Adviser to President Carter, a widely-known observer, and a critic of U.S. foreign policy. In the 1950s, Brzezinski was already an outstanding academic at Harvard. In the…

News and Notes The August 8 edition of the London Review of Books featured a magnificent Colm Tóibín appreciation of The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht. Americans are living longer than ever, aided by ever-advancing life-saving medical technologies and treatments. Dr. Dan Morhaim, author of The Better End: Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in…