Potomac Books

12/26/2024

UNSUNG HERO OF GETTYSBURG explores the services of the honorable but neglected general of the Potomac Army, David McMurtrie Gregg, during Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the Civil War.

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12/20/2024

A true-life detective story about the search for the missing members of the Romanov royal family, murdered by Bolsheviks in 1918, and one family’s involvement in the hundred-year-old forensic investigation into their deaths.

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12/13/2024

THE GAS AND FLAME MEN is the first full account of Major League ballplayers who served in the Chemical Warfare Service during World War I.

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12/09/2024

THE CHIEF RABBI'S FUNERAL recounts the largest antisemitic riot in American history: the horrific attack on Jewish mourners by factory workers and police on New York’s Lower East Side during the 1902 funeral of Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph.

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12/06/2024

Aramís Calderón’s memoir explores how his father’s undeniable love for his family despite drug addiction, lawlessness, and toxic masculinity informed Aramís’s rebellious decision to join the Marines.

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12/05/2024

When a slim packet of his father’s letters came to light after his mother’s death, Bill Thorness began a quest to rediscover his father, who was an army commando battling in Italy to liberate Rome in World War II.

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11/29/2024

Prudence Bushnell, the U.S. ambassador to Nairobi when al-Qaeda unleashed its devastating bomb attack in August 1998, gives her account of what happened, how it happened, and its impact twenty years later.

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11/19/2024

"In a world full of catastrophes, ongoing crises, and local and increasingly generalized wars, to know that such heroism exists. . . offers huge hope and motivation. MOLYVOS is definitely worth reading," writes H-Net Reviews.

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11/13/2024

CHASING CYNTHIANA by Lynn Marie Hamilton reveals hidden pockets of wine obsession in rural America and explores why the U.S. wine industry, outside California, lags behind Europe’s.

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11/11/2024

As we honor and remember the sacrifices of our Veterans, we keep returning to this essay from Stephen R. Dundas: A Meditation on Veterans Day.

Steven L. Dundas has served thirty-nine years in the U.S. Army and Navy. He is a former assistant professor at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University, and a retired chaplain wi…

11/07/2024

Peter Sarandinaki joins New Books Network to discuss his latest book IN SEARCH OF THE ROMANOVS.

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11/05/2024

PREDICTING THE WINNER author Ira Chinoy joins David Martin, host of Texas Public Radio's The Source, to talk about the history of Election Night.

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The Source is a daily, one-hour call-in talk program that gives listeners in San Antonio the opportunity to call and connect with our in-studio guests and city-wide audience.The Source seeks to give life, context and breadth to the events and issues affecting San Antonio by bringing newsmakers and e...

10/24/2024

As we creep toward , news outlets publish story after story trying to anticipate the results.

Author of PREDICTING THE WINNER Ira Chinoy shares an article about the dawn of election forecasting and its impact on elections today:

The history of using computers to forecast outcomes from early returns has a long history. So does the challenge of missing the big…

09/24/2024

"In CITIZEN JUSTICE, M. Margaret McKeown chronicles, through a brilliant use of source material, Douglas’s extra-curial work and his jurisprudential thinking on environmental issues," writes Hearsay.

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Author: M. Margaret McKeownPublisher: University of Nebraska Press (2022)Reviewer: Greg Barns SC In an era where the United States Supreme Court’s legitimacy is such that calling it a politically corrupted court is not far fetched, it is worth remembering that one of the most important benches in ...

09/20/2024

"A sharp-eyed look at a troubling past that still reverberates in modern Germany," writes Kirkus Reviews of N***S AT THE WATERCOOLER by Terrence C. Petty.

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A wide-ranging investigation of the incorporation of former N***s, including war criminals, into postwar German commerce and government.

09/19/2024

Happy first book birthday to RICHARD NIXON: CALIFORNIA'S NATIVE SON by Paul Carter!

Carter's biography of Richard Nixon covers his uniquely Southern California life in full circle. Relive a year in this book's life in reviews, social media posts, and more on the blog.

Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son (Potom…

09/18/2024

PREDICTING THE WINNER "showcases Chinoy’s capacity for meticulous detail, fascinating research, and strong sources," writes Library Journal.

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09/17/2024

Aramis Calderon, Author was eleven in 1992 when federal marshals conducted a nighttime raid at the Baton Rouge apartment where he lived with his mother and four siblings.They were searching for Aramís's father, who had escaped from a nearby federal prison.

In FUGITIVE SON Calderón explores how his father's undeniable love for his family despite drug addiction, lawlessness, and toxic masculinity informed Aramís's rebellious decision to join the Marines, and how all this shaped his determination to become the father he wished his own had been.

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