Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist by Larry Rohter 480 pages W.W. Norton & Company Published: May 2023 One of this year’s most intriguing new releases is Larry Rohter’s biography of Cândido Rondon, the Brazilian explorer who led the 1913-14 Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. Rohter is a journalist and author who recently served as South American bureau chief for the New York Times. His previous book “Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed” was published in 2010. Unless you’ve read Candice...…Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist by Larry Rohter 480 pages W.W. Norton & Company Published: May 2023 One of this year’s most intriguing new releases is Larry Rohter’s biography of Cândido Rondon, the Brazilian explorer who led the 1913-14 Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition. Rohter is a journalist and author who recently served as South American bureau chief for the New York Times. His previous book “Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed” was published in 2010. Unless you’ve read Candice...WW…

Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli 528 pages St. Martin’s Press Published: July 2023 Released this past summer, J. Randy Taraborrelli’s biography of Jackie Kennedy is detailed, revealing and, in the end, utterly absorbing. Taraborrelli is a biographer and a former journalist whose best-known books include biographies of Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Cher and the Kennedy family. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) was an American socialite, cultural icon and the 35th first lady of the United States. Her first husband (John F....…Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli 528 pages St. Martin’s Press Published: July 2023 Released this past summer, J. Randy Taraborrelli’s biography of Jackie Kennedy is detailed, revealing and, in the end, utterly absorbing. Taraborrelli is a biographer and a former journalist whose best-known books include biographies of Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Cher and the Kennedy family. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) was an American socialite, cultural icon and the 35th first lady of the United States. Her first husband (John F....WW…

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 592 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: Nov 2023 Released two weeks ago, Jennifer Burns’s “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” is the most significant biography of Friedman ever published. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is also the author of “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.”  Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was a Nobel Prize-winning economist, advisor to several world leaders (including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and...…Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 592 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: Nov 2023 Released two weeks ago, Jennifer Burns’s “Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative” is the most significant biography of Friedman ever published. Burns is an associate professor of history at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. She is also the author of “Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.”  Milton Friedman (1912-2006) was a Nobel Prize-winning economist, advisor to several world leaders (including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and...WW…