Deborah Baker

2 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan |Jeremy Lin

Madeline Potter. Harper, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-333766-4English literature PhD Potter debuts with an elegant and impressive history of the Roma people. She traces how governments have sought to eject, eradicate, and assimilate the Roma from Tudor England to Nazi Germany to the “new wave of fierce prejudice and discrimination” that followed the fall of the Iron Curtain, when many Roma migrated westward.

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Deborah Baker |Quinn Slobodian |Robin Givhan |Jeremy Lin

John Seabrook. Norton, $31.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-00352-6New Jersey’s Seabrook family, if less well known today than the Murdochs or the Redstones, had a Succession story every bit as dark, according to this captivating account. New Yorker reporter Seabrook (The Song Machine), a scion of the family who plumbed its history while undergoing therapy and recovering from alcoholism—a disease he attributes to his lineage—traces the dynasty back to its founder, C.F. Seabrook (1881–1964).