Press
2013
- 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 (PDF)
- New Statesman - 14 March 2013
In the Critics This Week (PDF) - The Telegraph - 27 February 2013
Leading Historians Back Reforms to History Curriculum (PDF)
By Alice Philipson - The Guardian - 15 February 2013
The Art of Biography is Alive and Well (PDF)
By Kathryn Hughes - Library Journal - 23 January 2013
Best Acknowledgements of 2012 (PDF)
By Margaret Heilbrun
2012
- The New York Times - 26 October 2012
Up Front: Amanda Foreman (PDF)
By The Editors - Daily Express - 12 October 2012
Booker Looks too Tight to Call (PDF)
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? (PDF)
By Paul Levy - New Statesman - 11 September 2012
Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced (PDF)
By Ella Funge - The Week - 11 September 2012
Hilary Mantel and Will Self Head Man Booker Shortlis (PDF)
By Anna McKie - Auction Central News - 13 August 2012
Confederacy museum's Sept. 27 Lecture covers Britain's Civil War role (PDF)
By Museum PR - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 6 August 2012
Prolific reviewer Myron Marty closes his books (PDF)
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 (PDF)
By Tim Masters - The New York Times - 25 July 2012
ArtsBeat Blog: Man Booker Prize Finalists Announced (PDF)
By Daniel J. Wakin - The Telegraph - 25 July 2012
Man Booker Prize Longlist Snubs Amis, McEwan and Smith (PDF)
By Anita Singh - The Times - 25 July 2012
Hilary Mantel up for Second Man Booker Prize (PDF)
By Ben Hoyle - Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 1 July 2012
Paperbacks New & Noteworthy (PDF) - The Seattle Times - 17 June 2012
Summer Reading: 10 Nonfiction Books to Last the Season (PDF)
By Mary Ann Gwinn - The Guardian - 27 May 2012
The Death of Celebrity Historians is Much Exaggerated (PDF)
By Richard J Evans - The Boston Globe - 20 May 2012
Judy Collins: Singer and Addict (PDF)
* 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 (PDF) - Austin American-Statesman - 25 February 2012
Critics Circle Finalists offer Glimpse of 2011's Best (PDF)
By American-Statesman Staff - National Post - 25 February 2012
Amanda Foreman: Decapitating the Confederacy (PDF) - Toronto Star - 25 February 2012
Lionel Gelber Prize 2012: Five Books on Dangerously Precipitous Times (PDF)
By Olivia Ward - Critical Mass (National Book Critics Circle) - 17 February 2012
Benjamin Moser on Amanda Foreman's "A World on Fire" (PDF)
By Benjamin Moser - National Post - 13 February 2012
The Afterword: Lionel Gelber Prize Unveils Shortlist (PDF)
By Mark Medley - The Seattle Times - 6 February 2012
Four Good Reads from National Book Critics Circle Awards' Finalists (PDF)
By Mary Ann Gwinn - National Post - 23 January 2012
The Afterword: Ten authors longlisted for Lionel Gelber Prize (PDF)
By Mark Medley - Associated Press - 22 January 2012
Eugenides, Lethem among critics' awards nominees (PDF)
By Hillel Italie - Library Journal - 22 January 2012
Announcing the Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards (PDF)
By Barbara Hoffert - Global Post - 19 January 2012
Opinion: What History can Teach us about the Global Economic Crisis (PDF)
By HDS Greenway - Montreal Gazette - 19 January 2012
Was the Iron Lady Good for Women? (PDF)
By Janet Bagnall - The Guardian - 5 January 2012
Churchill, Henry V and Napoleon? Overrated, says BBC History Magazine (PDF)
By Stephen Bates - Erie Times-News - 1 January 2012
Writers in Diverse Genres Produce many Worthy Titles (PDF)
By Jane Henderson - Salisbury Post - 1 January 2012
Best Books of 2011 (PDF)
2011
- San Antionio Express-News - 29 December 2011
10 Best Books of 2011 (PDF) - Denver Post - 25 December 2011
Now, for your reading pleasure . . . (PDF)
By Mike Littwin - NOLA.com - 25 December 2011
Hot Reads: Historians, novelists and a New Orleans architect eye the South in 2011 Books (PDF)
By the Times-Picayune - Manila Bulletin - 24 December 2011
The Best Books of 2011 (PDF) - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 25 December 2011
The PG's Top 10 in Fiction, Nonfiction (PDF)
By Bob Hoover - The New Yorker - 19 December 2011
A Year's Reading: Reviewers' Favorites from 2011 (PDF) - Cleveland.com - 18 December 2011
Best Books of 2011: The Top 10 Fiction and Nonfiction Titles from The Plain Dealer (PDF)
By Karen R. Long - Chicago Tribune - 17 December 2011
Favorites of 2011 (PDF)
- Bloomberg - 14 December 2011
King's New Kennedy, Greenblatt Finds 'Swerve' in Top 2011 Books (PDF)
By Laurie Muchnick - The Spectator Book Blog - 12 December 2011
Booker Time (PDF)
By David Blackburn - Press Association - 12 December 2011
Downton star joins literary judges (PDF) - The Wilson Quarterly - 9 December 2011
The WQ's Top 10 Books of 2011 (PDF)
- The Washington Post - 9 December 2011
Notable Non-Fiction of 2011 (PDF) - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 4 December 2011
Post-Dispatch rounds up favorite books of 2011 (PDF)
By Jane Henderson - The New York Times - 30 November 2011
The 10 Best Books of 2011 (PDF) - The Guardian - 26 November 2011
Christmas Gifts 2011: which books will be under your tree? (PDF)
A World on Fire segment by Tristram Hunt
- Library Journal - 21 November 2011
Best Acknowledgments of 2011 (PDF)
By Margaret Heilbrun - Library Journal - 17 November 2011
Best Books of 2011: More of the Best (PDF)
- MediaBistro.com - 16 November 2011
GalleyCat: Lauren Redniss, Jon Waters & Amanda Foreman Give Advice for Young Writers (PDF)
By Dianna Dilworth - The Houston Civil War Round Table - 8 November 2011
General Orders: Barnes' Texas Brigade (PDF)
Vol. 23, No. 3 - The Post and Courier - 7 November 2011
Library Society to host Journalist, Historian (PDF) - The Guardian - 30 September 2011
Military History: Not Just for Men By Julia Lovell - Mississippi State - 21 September 2011
State Snapshot (PDF)
Photograph by Megan Bean - The Commercial Dispatch - 17 September 2011
British-American Historian Opens MSU Lecture Series (PDF)
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 (PDF)
By Orville Buddo - Harvard Business Review - 3 August 2011
In Presentations, Kill Your Darlings (PDF)
By Jerry Weissman - The Huffington Post - 1 July 2011
Do You Still Read Fiction? (PDF)
By Lev Raphael - New York Post, Page 6 - 24 June 2011
Book on Fire - New York Social Diary - 21 June 2011
The Summer Solstice (PDF) - Financial Times - 19 June 2011
Gunning for a Greater Slice of US Broadcasting (PDF)
By Matthew Garrahan - The Telegraph - 12 June 2011
Nude Historian Amanda Foreman seeks role at 'new Oxford University' (PDF)
By Richard Eden - Mail Online - 8 June 2011
Can Amanda make the final cut? (PDF) - The Telegraph - 8 April 2011
What Fuels Our Appetite for War?(PDF)
By Brenda Maddox - The Independent - 13 March 2011
A nation alone: The dangers of allowing children to drop history at 13 (PDF)
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' (PDF)
By Jason Groves - Los Angeles Times - 6 March 2011
Lessons of America's Civil War (PDF)
By Nick Owchar - The Guardian - 24 February 2011
Lincoln, evil? Our certainties of 1865 give us pause today (PDF)
By Martin Kettle
2010
- MailOnline - 12 April 2010
David Starkey attacks 'pretty girl historians who show off their looks on their book covers' (PDF) - 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 (PDF)
By Laura Collins - Wmagazine - September 2008
Duchess Treat Move aside, Marie Antoinette, and make way for the enchanting Georgiana (PDF)
By Vanessa Lau - Daily Telegraph - 9 August 2008
Princess Diana and the Duchess of Devonshire: Striking similarities (PDF) - Tatler Magazine - August 2008
High Society by Lucy Moore - The Daliy Mail - 10 July 2008
This is also a gossip column (PDF)
By Richard Kay - Independent - 8 July 2008
So what if Amanda Foreman was snapped au naturel? (PDF)
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 (PDF)
By Sebastian Shakespeare - Bookseller.com - 7 July 2008
Biographers turn nasty (PDF)
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 (PDF)
By Jasper Rees - Telegraph - 30 January 2008
Dining rooms are not cut out for modern life (PDF)
By Alice Thomson
2007
- BBC - 7 October 2007
Hundreds queue for film audition - Daily Mail - 27 July 2007
Keira the dazzling Duchess (PDF)
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 (PDF)
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 (PDF)
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 (PDF)
