Ron Chernow

1 week ago | ebsco.com | Ron Chernow |Kwame Alexander |Jerry Craft |Joanna Ho

It's officially summer in North America... a season that readers look forward to all year. Whether summer at your library means shifting into high gear or relishing a brief moment of cruise control, there will always be readers who want your up-to-date book recommendations. To help you keep those recommendations fresh and fun, we’ve rounded up 22 standout titles featured in this summer’s NextReads newsletters, broken into categories.

2 weeks ago | thedailynewsonline.com | Kevin Duchschere |Ron Chernow

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) that job entailed. It’s that dark side, usually cloaked beneath Twain’s legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography.

2 weeks ago | thelcn.com | Kevin Duchschere |Ron Chernow

Samuel Langhorne Clemens may well have led a happier life if he had remained a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi. But then he never would have become Mark Twain — with all the heartache, frustration and dadgum bother (as he might put it) that job entailed. It’s that dark side, usually cloaked beneath Twain’s legend, that dominates Ron Chernow’s massive new biography.

Dec 31, 2024 | barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |John Green |Ron Chernow |Robert MacFarlane |Robert Macfarlane

As we begin a new year and (try our best to) stick to our resolutions, we’re so excited to take a peek ahead at all the exceptional reading 2025 has to offer us. One of our favorite resolutions? Reading more nonfiction. The best kind of nonfiction teaches us about the world, its people, and our history. Through indelible memoirs, hard-boiled history, exciting biographies and so much more, this is our most anticipated nonfiction of 2025.

Oct 24, 2024 | nationalarchivesstore.org | Ron Chernow

A man whose life is typically misunderstood, works about Ulysses S. Grant often paint him as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant yet brutal Union general of the Civil War. As Ron Chernow demonstrates in his masterful biography, these stereotypes don’t come close to illustrating the eighteenth president. Before the Civil War, Grant was flailing.