Press

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2013

• The History of Parliament – 19 June 2013
  The History of Parliament Lecture: Dr Amanda Foreman
• LeadingCompany – 27th May 2013
  Under pressure: Leadership lessons from history
  By Chris Golis
• The Wall Street Journal – 8 April 2013
  Political Diary: Margaret Thatcher, RIP
  By Jason Riley
• WGNS Radio – 30 March 2013
  “Battle of Stones River” lecture 7pm Monday at MTSU
• New Statesman – 14 March 2013
  In the Critics This Week 
• The Telegraph – 27 February 2013
  Leading Historians Back Reforms to History Curriculum
  By Alice Philipson
• The Guardian – 15 February 2013
  The Art of Biography is Alive and Well
  By Kathryn Hughes
• Library Journal – 23 January 2013
  Best Acknowledgements of 2012
  By Margaret Heilbrun

2012

• The New York Times – 26 October 2012
  Up Front: Amanda Foreman
  By The Editors
• Daily Express – 12 October 2012
  Booker Looks too Tight to Call
  By Emma Lee Potter
• Daily Mail – 11 October 2012
  The Man Booker Prize: Runners & Riders By Hephzibah Anderson
• The Wall Street Journal – 11 October 2012
  Picking a Winner: Who Should Get This Year’s Booker?
  By Paul Levy
• New Statesman – 11 September 2012
  Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced
  By Ella Funge
• The Week – 11 September 2012
  Hilary Mantel and Will Self Head Man Booker Shortlis
  By Anna McKie
• Auction Central News – 13 August 2012
  Confederacy museum’s Sept. 27 Lecture covers Britain’s Civil War role
  By Museum PR
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – 6 August 2012
  Prolific reviewer Myron Marty closes his books
  By Sarah Bryan Miller
  * Includes A World on Fire as one of Marty’s “Six Books of Lasting Value”
• BBC News – 26 July 2012
  Man Booker Prize: Judges Back ‘Innovation’ on 2012 Longlist 
  By Tim Masters
• The New York Times – 25 July 2012
  ArtsBeat Blog: Man Booker Prize Finalists Announced
  By Daniel J. Wakin
• The Telegraph – 25 July 2012
  Man Booker Prize Longlist Snubs Amis, McEwan and Smith
  By Anita Singh
• The Times – 25 July 2012
  Hilary Mantel up for Second Man Booker Prize
  By Ben Hoyle
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution – 1 July 2012
  Paperbacks New & Noteworthy 
• The Seattle Times – 17 June 2012
  Summer Reading: 10 Nonfiction Books to Last the Season
  By Mary Ann Gwinn
• The Guardian – 27 May 2012
  The Death of Celebrity Historians is Much Exaggerated
  By Richard J Evans
• The Boston Globe – 20 May 2012
  Judy Collins: Singer and Addict
  * Includes a mention of A World on Fire by Judy Collins
• The Telegraph – 10 May 2012
  Why telly-dons like David Starkey, Lucy Worsley and Bettany Hughes get top marks
• London Evening Standard – 27 April 2012
  Booker Prize judges to turn over new leaf
• Austin American-Statesman – 25 February 2012
  Critics Circle Finalists offer Glimpse of 2011’s Best
  By American-Statesman Staff
• National Post – 25 February 2012
  Amanda Foreman: Decapitating the Confederacy
• Toronto Star – 25 February 2012
  Lionel Gelber Prize 2012: Five Books on Dangerously Precipitous Times
  By Olivia Ward
• Critical Mass (National Book Critics Circle) – 17 February 2012
  Benjamin Moser on Amanda Foreman’s “A World on Fire”
  By Benjamin Moser
• National Post – 13 February 2012
  The Afterword: Lionel Gelber Prize Unveils Shortlist
  By Mark Medley
• The Seattle Times – 6 February 2012
  Four Good Reads from National Book Critics Circle Awards’ Finalists
  By Mary Ann Gwinn
• National Post – 23 January 2012
  The Afterword: Ten authors longlisted for Lionel Gelber Prize
  By Mark Medley
• Associated Press – 22 January 2012
  Eugenides, Lethem among critics’ awards nominees
  By Hillel Italie
• Library Journal – 22 January 2012
  Announcing the Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards
  By Barbara Hoffert
• Global Post – 19 January 2012
  Opinion: What History can Teach us about the Global Economic Crisis
  By HDS Greenway
• Montreal Gazette – 19 January 2012
  Was the Iron Lady Good for Women?
  By Janet Bagnall
• The Guardian – 5 January 2012
  Churchill, Henry V and Napoleon? Overrated, says BBC History Magazine
  By Stephen Bates
• Erie Times-News – 1 January 2012
  Writers in Diverse Genres Produce many Worthy Titles
  By Jane Henderson
• Salisbury Post – 1 January 2012
  Best Books of 2011

2011

• San Antionio Express-News – 29 December 2011
  10 Best Books of 2011
• Denver Post – 25 December 2011
  Now, for your reading pleasure . . .
  By Mike Littwin
• NOLA.com – 25 December 2011
  Hot Reads: Historians, novelists and a New Orleans architect eye the South in 2011 Books
  By the Times-Picayune
• Manila Bulletin – 24 December 2011
  The Best Books of 2011
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 25 December 2011
  The PG’s Top 10 in Fiction, Nonfiction
  By Bob Hoover
• The New Yorker – 19 December 2011
  A Year’s Reading: Reviewers’ Favorites from 2011
• Cleveland.com – 18 December 2011
  Best Books of 2011: The Top 10 Fiction and Nonfiction Titles from The Plain Dealer
  By Karen R. Long
• Chicago Tribune – 17 December 2011
  Favorites of 2011
• Bloomberg – 14 December 2011
  King’s New Kennedy, Greenblatt Finds ‘Swerve’ in Top 2011 Books
  By Laurie Muchnick
• National Public Radio (NPR) – 13 December 2011
  Morning Edition: 7 Books With Personality: Nancy Pearl’s 2011 Picks
  Amanda Foreman’s A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War offers both the Civil War scholar and devoted history buff an eye-opening tale of the relationship between Britain and the United States in the mid-19th century.
• The Spectator Book Blog – 12 December 2011
  Booker Time
  By David Blackburn
• Press Association  – 12 December 2011
  Downton star joins literary judges
• The Wilson Quarterly – 9 December 2011
  The WQ’s Top 10 Books of 2011
• The Washington Post – 9 December 2011
  Notable Non-Fiction of 2011
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch – 4 December 2011
  Post-Dispatch rounds up favorite books of 2011
  By Jane Henderson
• The New York Times – 30 November 2011
  The 10 Best Books of 2011
• The Guardian – 26 November 2011
  Christmas Gifts 2011: which books will be under your tree?
  A World on Fire segment by Tristram Hunt
• Library Journal – 21 November 2011
  Best Acknowledgments of 2011
  By Margaret Heilbrun
• Library Journal – 17 November 2011
  Best Books of 2011: More of the Best
• MediaBistro.com – 16 November 2011
  GalleyCat: Lauren Redniss, Jon Waters & Amanda Foreman Give Advice for Young Writers
  By Dianna Dilworth
• The Houston Civil War Round Table – 8 November 2011
  General Orders: Barnes’ Texas Brigade
  Vol. 23, No. 3
• The Post and Courier – 7 November 2011
  Library Society to host Journalist, Historian
• The Guardian – 30 September 2011
  Military History: Not Just for Men By Julia Lovell
• Mississippi State – 21 September 2011
  State Snapshot
  Photograph by Megan Bean
• The Commercial Dispatch – 17 September 2011
  British-American Historian Opens MSU Lecture Series
  By Jan Swoope
• The Catholic American – 14 September 2011
  The Civil War, Amanda Foreman, Oxford, Nudity and Large Families
  By Donald R. McClarey
• The New York Times – 5 August 2011
  July’s Political Best Sellers
  By Orville Buddo
• Harvard Business Review – 3 August 2011
  In Presentations, Kill Your Darlings
  By Jerry Weissman
• The Huffington Post – 1 July 2011
  Do You Still Read Fiction?
  By Lev Raphael
• New York Post, Page 6 – 24 June 2011
  Book on Fire
• New York Social Diary – 21 June 2011
  The Summer Solstice
• Financial Times – 19 June 2011
  Gunning for a Greater Slice of US Broadcasting
  By Matthew Garrahan
• The Telegraph – 12 June 2011
  From lonely failure to duchess of Hollywood

  Cassandra Jardine speaks with Amanda Foreman about motherhood, movies and the $100m Hollywood adaption of her new book.

• The Telegraph – 12 June 2011
  Nude Historian Amanda Foreman seeks role at ‘new Oxford University’ 
  By Richard Eden
• Mail Online – 8 June 2011
  Can Amanda make the final cut?
• The Telegraph – 8 April 2011
  What Fuels Our Appetite for War?
  By Brenda Maddox
• The Independent – 13 March 2011
  A nation alone: The dangers of allowing children to drop history at 13
  By Richard Garner
• The Times – 11 March 2011
  Historians say AV poses threat to democracy
• The Times – 11 March 2011
  History teaches us to vote ‘No to AV’
• The Daily Mail – 12 March 2011
  Historians brand proposals for AV voting reform ‘a threat to democracy’
  By Jason Groves
• Los Angeles Times – 6 March 2011
  Lessons of America’s Civil War
  By Nick Owchar
• The Guardian – 24 February 2011
  Lincoln, evil? Our certainties of 1865 give us pause today
  By Martin Kettle
• BBC Television – 5 February 2011
  Book Talk
  Keith Simpson MP, historian Kate Williams and Independent on Sunday journalist John Rentoul discuss Amanda Foreman’s book A World on Fire as one of their best books for the politically minded to take on holiday.

2010

• MailOnline – 12 April 2010
  David Starkey attacks ‘pretty girl historians who show off their looks on their book covers’
• TimesOnline – 11 April 2010
  David Starkey swipes at ‘pretty girl’ history
• TimesOnline – 10 April 2010
  Naked celebrities: Why we’d all rather go nude

2008

• The New York Times – 27 September 2008
  An earlier Spencer, eerily similar troubles
• TimesOnline – 20 September 2008
  How to get dressed: tailoring
• MailOnline – 21 September 2008
  How Fergie and the Duchess in the hit movie are directly related through an illegitimate child
  By Laura Collins
• Wmagazine – September 2008
  Duchess Treat Move aside, Marie Antoinette, and make way for the enchanting Georgiana
  By Vanessa Lau
• Daily Telegraph – 9 August 2008
  Princess Diana and the Duchess of Devonshire: Striking similarities
• Tatler Magazine – August 2008
  High Society by Lucy Moore
• The Daliy Mail – 10 July 2008
  This is also a gossip column
  By Richard Kay
• Independent – 8 July 2008
  So what if Amanda Foreman was snapped au naturel?
  By John Walsh 
  
• Evening Standard – July 2008
  A Londoner’s Diary
• Evening Standard – 8 July 2008
  The gloves are off again in the bruising world of biography
  By Sebastian Shakespeare
• Bookseller.com – 7 July 2008
  Biographers turn nasty
  By Philip Jones
• Sunday Times – 6 July 2008
  Bitchiness breaks out in world of biography
  By Maurice Chittenden
• Guardian – 25 June 2008
  The death of life writing
• Telegraph – 25 February 2008
  How Elizabeth and co. made history sexy
  By Jasper Rees
• Telegraph – 30 January 2008
  Dining rooms are not cut out for modern life
  By Alice Thomson

2007

• BBC – 7 October 2007
  Hundreds queue for film audition
• Daily Mail – 27 July 2007
  Keira the dazzling Duchess
  By Baz Bimgboye
• People – 7 July 2008
  Amanda Foreman in biography row
• Good Housekeeping – 7 June 2007
  Remembering Diana: 10 years later, her influence–on her boys, her charities, and the world–lives on
  By Sarah Lyall
• The Globe and Mail – 11 May 2007
  How super is your mom?

• The Daily Mail – 27 February 2007
  Why big families really are the best
  By Amanda Foreman

2006

• The Times – 31 August 2006
  Film will recount tragic life of the 18th century Diana

2002

• The Daily Telegraph – 21 August, 2002
  Falling for a man you can bank on

2001

• Austin Chronicle – 2 February 2001
  Amanda Foreman Takes on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire