Biography Videos

[close] Hosted by Mary Beard.

[close] A book and screenplay trailer for A Song of Bullets

[close] “Nights and days of the world pass like wanderers. They deprive those they meet of power”. Everyone interprets these words evoking melancholy and thoughts about pointless existence in accordance with their perception of the world. Think about it on streets of Kashgar because it was Mahmud Kashgari, who said this. Mahmud Kashgari wrote in Arabic. Mahmud Kashgari really wrote such a didactic poem in the Turkic language. His full name was Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammed al-Kashgari. It's considered that he was born in 1029 and died in 1101. According to another version, he was born and died 10 or 20 years later.

[close] Enjoy this exclusive cover reveal for my upcoming picture book biography, A VOICE OF HOPE: THE MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS STORY, about the remarkable life of civil rights activist, Myrlie Evers-Williams. Illustrated by London Ladd. Released by Philomel Books an imprint of Penguin Random House. ADD TO GOODREADS: 👉 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... PRE-ORDER Available: 👉 https://www.mrsdalloways.com/book/978... Music courtesy of Claude DeBussy, Clair de Lune

[close] For once we're reading a novel first published in English in 1995. Following the release of Napoleon the film by Ridley Scott, we wanted to know more about Josephine as she is also the heroine of the film.

[close] The book trailer from Blackstone Publishing for The Ballad of Speedball Baby.

[close] "This is a great book" - Michael Franzese on THE LIFE WE CHOSE

[close] A VOICE OF HOPE: THE MYRLIE EVERS-WILLIAMS STORY, was one of the titles selected to be featured in Publishers Weekly for the Fall 2024 Children's Sneak Preview! A Voice of Hope is written by me, #nadiasalomon and gorgeously illustrated by the award-winning, #londonladd. It's the first picture book biography about civil rights activist, Myrlie Evers-Williams. Our title is set to release in the Fall on September 24, 2024 via #PhilomelBooks! We're sharing this video here after getting approval from our editor with a little excerpt and art from the book.

[close] Billy D'Elia, the former head of the Bufalino Crime Family, tells Michael Franzese about August 1975 meeting in NYC where an angry Frank Sheeran is forced by Russell Bufalino to promise "Fat" Tony Salerno and Tony Provenzano that he would not hurt them for ordering death of Jimmy Hoffa, from the book The Life We Chose. See full interview on YouTube at @michaelfranzese

[close] An examination of the major achievements of Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool; Prime Minister 1812 - 1827.

[close] Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize winner and presidential historian, discusses her final years with her husband Dick Goodwin, speechwriter and adviser for John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.