Six Big Biographies: Oct. 2023, Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert

From George Washington to Medgar and Myrlie Evers. 

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Baier, Bret. To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment. Mariner: HarperCollins. Oct. 2023. 400p. ISBN 9780063039582. $29.99. BIOGRAPHY

Conant, Jennet. Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins. Norton. Oct. 2023. 576p. ISBN 9780393882124. $32.50. BIOGRAPHY

Coppins, McKay. Romney: A Reckoning. Scribner. Oct. 2023. 320p. ISBN 9781982196202. $32.50. BIOGRAPHY

Ford, Tanisha. Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement. Amistad: HarperCollins. Oct. 2023. 388p. ISBN 9780063115712. $32.99. CD. BIOGRAPHY

Reid, Joy-Ann. Medgar and Myrlie. Mariner: HarperCollins. Oct. 2023. 368p. ISBN 9780063068797. $30. CD. BIOGRAPHY

White, Ronald C. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. Random. Oct. 2023. 512p. ISBN 9780525510086. $35. BIOGRAPHY

 In To Rescue the Constitution, Baier, the chief political anchor for Fox News, charts George Washington’s return from retirement post–Revolutionary War to lead the Constitutional Convention that bound together the United States (200,000-copy first printing). New York Times best-selling author Conant investigates the life and Fierce Ambition of journalist Marguerite (Maggie) Higgins, who reported on the liberation of Dachau and, following her dispatches from Korea, became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. From Atlantic staff writer Coppins, Romney draws on exclusive interviews from Sen. Mitt Romney and his family and friends. Ford’s Our Secret Society tells the story of Mollie Moon, whose fundraising efforts as founder of the National Urban League Guild helped support the Civil Rights Movement. MSNBC political analyst Reid (The Man Who Sold America) offers the dual biography Medgar and Myrlie, about assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers and his activist wife, Myrlie. White, the New York Times best-selling biographer of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, here chronicles gentle-souled Bowdoin professor Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, who became a Civil War general and hero, then four-time governor of Maine in On Great Fields.

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Barbara Hoffert (bhoffert@mediasourceinc.com, @BarbaraHoffert on Twitter) is Editor, LJ Prepub Alert; winner of ALA's Louis Shores Award for reviewing; and past president, awards chair, and treasurer of the National Book Critics Circle, which awarded her its inaugural Service Award in 2023.

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