Howard French

🙂 The Second Emancipation listed as one of the 20 best non-fiction books of 2025 by Publishers Weekly. best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...

Decency. Right. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Heros. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Jamaican man. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...

This was mostly Putin envy from a confused and superannuated American president. What he probably meant, or how this will likely be interpreted, has to do with new, fancy delivery systems and not the explosive devices themselves. Not that this is reassuring.

Reading. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-last-l...

My interview about The Second Emancipation with the excellent French-language publication, afriquexxi.info afriquexxi.info/L-epopee-Nkr...

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/a...

Weather Report, Mysterious Traveler. sl.bing.net/bKYv4ao6ri8

www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Happening now.

An excellent review, and nice to see the Times use someone who with background on a historical topic review a book of history. Often they don't. "This is a bizarrely evasive way to explore “the downside of the American founding.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/b...

Smart piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w...

"We have never figured out how to value Africa at its full worth," my podcast interview with @michaeldeibert.bsky.social about The Second Emancipation. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/we-have-ne...