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Fiorello La Guardia: The Insurgent
By Brenda Wineapple
Publication Date: March 23, 2027
From an award-winning author, the story of the man and mayor who, with savvy and grit, fought for honest government and progressive ideals in New York and beyond
Fiorello La Guardia (1882–1947) is still remembered as one of New York City’s most ambitious, pugnacious, and effective politicians. With steely resolve, this maverick Republican led the city from 1934 to 1945—through the Great Depression and World War II—championing a new style of urban progressivism. Committed to delivering honest government, affordable housing, clean streets, and reliable public transportation, La Guardia energetically oversaw the building of hospitals, parks, public schools, clinics, and a municipal airport. And attuned to the slights many citizens were forced to endure, he was determined to protect the dignity of workers, immigrants, and refugees.
Brenda Wineapple follows La Guardia’s rise, from his childhood in Arizona and then Europe through his ascent in New York politics and to the US House of Representatives, where he served during the 1920s. She reveals that while he was the city’s first Italian American mayor, La Guardia was also deeply influenced by his Jewish roots—his mother was Jewish and his sister a Holocaust survivor—and examines how this identity helped shape his abhorrence of fascism, nativism, and unfair privilege, while also informing his internationalism, as well as his belief in a more perfect America.
Brenda Wineapple is a prizewinning historian, biographer, and essayist. Her previous books include, most recently, the best-selling Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. She teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University.
The Ba'al Shem Tov: A Life of Devotion
By Ariel Evan Mayse
Publication Date: June 22, 2027
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Sneak Peek: Forthcoming Titles*
Gertrude Stein by Lauren Elkin
Hannah Arendt by M. Gessen
Rebecca by Judith Shulevitz
Susan Sontag by Benjamin Taylor
Louis Kahn by Gini Alhadeff
Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Jeffrey Rosen
George Gershwin by Gary Giddins
Sabbatai Tsevi by Pawel Maciejko
Jonas Salk by David Margolick
Mahler by Leon Botstein
Henry Kissinger by Dennis Ross
Jesus by Jack Miles
Billy Wilder by Noah Isenberg
Norman Mailer by D. Bromwich
*A sample of titles in production. Publication dates TBD.