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Reading Room

Non-Fiction Authors

History as seen through the eyes of preeminent authors.

Produced in partnership with New-York Historical Society

2024 Season

July 10
Corey Brettschneider, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It

July 17
Robin Bernstein, Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

July 24
Dan Slater, The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

July 31
Kevin Baker, The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

August 7
Don Doyle, The Age of Reconstruction: How Lincoln's New Birth of Freedom Remade the World

August 14
David Daley, Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections

August 21
Paul M. Sparrow, Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words with Charles Lindberg- and the Battle to Save Democracy

August 28
The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery; A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography by John Swanson Jacobs
Hosted by Jonathan D.S. Schroeder, Editor

September 4
William Hogeland, The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding

September 11
John Reeves, Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant