Meteorologist Bryan Norcross presents My Hurricane Andrew Story: The story behind the preparation, the terror, the resilience, and the renowned TV coverage of the Great Hurricane of 1992. Sponsored by:…

Annabelle Gurwitch‘s new hysterically funny and slylyinsightful essay collection is Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To. In her debut essay collection, Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas, humorist and performer Jenny Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. With sidesplitting commentary, Steve Rushin creates a vivid picture of the 70s, a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental,…

In Ann Hood‘s memoir, Morningstar: Growing Up with Books, she recounts how she learned to channel her imagination, ambitions, and curiosity by devouring ever-growing stacks of books. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues, is New York Times Book Review Editor Pamela’s Paul’s memoir about her reading journal, and what her reading choices reveal about her own story. Poetry Will Save Your Life is an unconventional and inventive coming-of-age memoir organized around fifty-one remarkable poems by poets,…

Woody Allen biographer Eric Lax follows the legendary director throughout the creation of a film—from  inception to premiere, and presents his reflections on some of the finest artists in the history of cinema. From Start To Finish: Woody Allen and the Art of Moviemaking.…

11:00 a.m. / Rm. 2106 (Bldg. 2, 1st Floor) Madison Smartt Bell‘s latest novel is the metaphysical thriller Behind the Moon, in which a girl fleeing from a violent sexual encounter in the desert tumbles into a cave and falls into a fever dream inspired by ancient drawings on the cave walls. In conversation with City Lights Editor Elaine Katzenberger.…

Chantel Acevedo’s latest work of historical fiction, The Living Infinite, is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family’s reign. Cristina García‘s novel, Here in Berlin, is a portrait of a city through snapshots, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin—its complex, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II.…

Following the death of Eileen Myles’s beloved pit-bull Rosie, Myles launches a heartfelt and fabulist investigation into the true nature of the bond between pet and pet-owner, in Afterglow (a dog memoir).…

Dan Wakefield is editor of Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories, a collection of Vonnegut’s short fiction, including five never before published stories. Jim Shepard’s short story collection The World to Come offers ten stories that span borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery.…

Award-winning Producer/Director of the documentary on James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck, in conversation with Edwidge Danticat, Yanick Lahens, and Russell Banks on Haiti and the photography of Thony Belizaire.…

Abbi Jacobson’s I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff is a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew. in conversation with Paul W. Downs of Comedy Central’s Broad City.…

With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel in Good and Mad: How Women’s Anger is Reshaping America. Mona Charen’s Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense tracks the price we have paid for denying sex differences and stoking the war of the sexes.…

The founders never anticipated a realpolitik in which the most powerful man in America is a reality TV star with autocratic impulses, kleptocratic policies, and an itchy Twitter finger. What role should citizens of good faith play when confronted by a leader who neither understands, nor abides by, the rule of law? This will be a spirited and provocative conversation about the future of our democracy, featuring Sarah Kendzior, a regular on MSNBC’s AM Joy and author of The View from Flyover Country;…

In The Incomplete Book of Running, Peter Sagal, the popular game show host of NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me shares lessons, stories, advice, and warnings gleaned from running the equivalent of once around the earth.…

Ivy & Bean are back! Worried about becoming a spoiled only child, Ivy needs a baby sister, quick! Luckily, Ivy and Bean know just where to get one in Annie Barrows’ One Big Happy Family. Judy Moody discovers that she might have royal blood! But what to do about those other pesky family secrets? Find out in Meghan McDonald’s Judy Moody and the Right Royal Tea Party.  …

As things are just starting to look up for two teenage boys, a chain of events alters their understanding of love, friendship, and fate in Kwame Alexander’s latest YA book, Swing. Jacqueline Woodson‘s children’s book The Day You Begin reminds us that we all feel like outsiders sometimes—and how brave it is that we go forth anyway. Sponsored by…

Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad is a memoir from the first African American Muslim to win an Olympic medal for fencing.…

In My Baseball Journey, Felipe Alou and journalist Peter Kerasotis recount Alou’s journey from a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic to becoming the first Dominican to play and manage in major league baseball.…

Meg Cabot’s Royal Crown: From the Notebooks of a Middle-School Princess is a new spinoff of the popular Princess Diaries YA book series.…

A Dedicated Life: Journalism, Justice and a Chance for Every Child is a memoir from a lifelong champion of children, David Lawrence, Jr., who became a leading national advocate for children and was instrumental in founding the Children’s Movement of Florida. Sponsored by…

Sarah Weinman’s nonfiction book The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World investigates the true crime that inspired Nabokov to write his classic novel. In conversation with Ron Charles.…

Carol Fulp’s Success Through Diversity: Why the Most Inclusive Companies Will Win explores how investing in a racially and ethnically diverse workforce will help make contemporary businesses more dynamic, powerful, and profitable. Crystal M. Fleming’s How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. In conversation with Helene Atwan, director of Beacon Press.…

Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of America’s Long Struggle with Castro’s Cuba is a longtime insider’s unprecedented look behind the “Sugar Curtain” during America’s long standoff with communist Cuba, by “one of this generation’s finest diplomats,” Ambassador Vicki Huddleston.…

In Where Do I Begin?: Stories from a Life Lived Out Loud, radio personality Elvis Duran shares his wildest stories and hardest-learned lessons, all with his trademark heart and humor.…

In Why Liberalism Failed, Patrick Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.…

Nominated for a 2019 National Book Award, Kadir Nelson’s children’s book The Undefeated, is a poem and love letter to black life in the United States.  All ages welcome.  Moderated by Rita Mayer, Miami Dade Public Library System Children’s Librarian. Sponsored by    …

In Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s Xanadu, Les Standiford tells the history of this landscape and the lives of the rich, the famous and the infamous. Historian Dr. Douglas Brinkley’s American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race takes a fresh look at the space program, and America’s race to the moon. Brad Meltzer’s The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington, tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement.…

In the collection Busted in New York and Other Essays, Darryl Pinckney offers a view of our recent racial history that blends the social and the personal — as it wonders how we arrived at our current moment.…

Television producer Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me) chronicles the pains and indignities of everyday life. In his memoir Beautiful on the Outside former Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon recounts his journey from a homeschooled kid in Scranton, PA, to self-professed America’s Sweetheart.…

In Where I Come From, Life Lessons from a Latino Chef, Aarón Sánchez, America’s most prominent Latino chef, shares the story behind his food, his family, and his professional journey.…

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen is a charming account of Mary Norris’s lifelong love affair with words, the Greek language, and her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. In conversation with Roxanne Coady, host of Just the Right Book, a LitHub Radio podcast.…

This Is Not a T-Shirt: A Brand, a Culture, a Community – a Life in Streetwear tells the story of The Hundreds and the precepts that made it an iconic streetwear brand, by Bobby Hundreds himself. In conversation with Asanyah Davidson, chairperson, Miami Fashion Institute at Miami Dade College.…

In Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Raniest of Days, Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean reveals obstacles she’s faced that could have severely impacted any professional woman’s career, from online trolls to health issues to abusive and sexist bosses.…

Sharon Salzberg’s Real Love offers a creative toolkit of mindfulness exercises, meditation techniques, and interactive applications that will guide readers to find a truer meaning of love. Salzberg will be in conversation with Scott Rogers, founder of the University of Miami School of Law’s Mindfulness in Law Program. Sponsored by…

Volvemos a encontrarnos en persona y los invitamos a una cita con la poesía contemporánea. Alejandro Pérez Cortés, poeta, narrador y profesor mexicano que reside en Estados Unidos, ganó el Premio Paz 2020 organizado por la Feria del Libro de Miami y National Poetry Series, fallado por José Kozer, y presenta: Ima y Coli son el árbol que nunca fue semilla. Joaquín Badajoz, miembro correspondiente de la Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Español (ANLE) ofrece Cántaro,…

Speakers: Pilar Quintana, Beatriz Mendoza Es un gusto para la Feria recibir este año a la narradora y guionista de cine colombiana Pilar Quintana, ganadora del Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2021, quien presenta Los abismos, un relato protagonizado por una niña que asume las revelaciones de su madre y los silencios de su padre para empezar a construir su propio mundo. La autora conversará con la escritora y periodista Beatriz Mendoza. Este evento requiere entradas: Gratis.…

In A Matter of Trust: India-US Relations from Truman to Trump, Indian-born journalist Meenakshi Ahamed reveals the personal prejudices and insecurities of the leaders, and the political imperatives, of India and the United States that so often cast a shadow over their relationship. Moderated by author Mamta Chaudhry. To livestream this event visit MiamiBookFairOnline.com. This event requires a ticket for admission. All in-person events at MBF 2021 will require a ticket for entry. Tickets will be available to Friends of the Fair October 18 and to the general public November 3.…

El poeta cubano residente en Miami Carlos Pintado, ganador entre otros del Premio Paz de Poesía 2014, inaugura el Programa de Autores Iberoamericanos con El árbol rojo, una colección de haikus en los que la mirada del poeta penetra el acontecer cotidiano en busca de lo trascendente. Pintado se presenta con el cantautor cubano Francisco Céspedes en un diálogo poético-musical. Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFairOnline.com.…

En una charla profunda y amena la reconocida la escritora y guionista cubana Wendy Guerra conversa con el periodista José Manuel Rodríguez acerca de cómo un diario íntimo puede convertirse en novela, y de qué forma esas novelas narran y asientan el tiempo de la autora y sus contemporáneos. Esta presentación en persona también será transmitida en MiamiBookFairOnline.com. Con el apoyo de …

High school students from Miami-Dade County Public Schools act as journalists, posing questions to the honorees for the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Since 1998, Teen Press Conference has taken place at various literary landmarks in New York, including the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Scholastic Auditorium, Brooklyn Borough Hall, and now – for the eighth year – at the Miami Book Fair! Hosted by author Pablo Cartaya,…

¿Entramos en una nueva era puritana? ¿Existe un nuevo activismo liberticida? Hay temor a expresarse, en la universidad y en la empresa, y a cómo será interpretada una canción, una obra literaria o un artículo de opinión. Las libertades de expresión y creación parecen en recesión y cuestionadas, como en tiempos totalitarios. La Cátedra Vargas Llosa abandera un foro de debate para medios y agentes culturales en torno a la deriva de la libertad de palabra hoy. Panel con la participación de la periodista y escritora española Inés Martín Rodrigo,…

In Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel offers an eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that explores the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China. The result of the clash will determine whether democratic or authoritarian values will be broadcast more powerfully around the world. This in-person program will also be livestreamed at MiamiBookFairOnline.com.…

In California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival, Keith Corbin, born on the home turf of the notorious Grape Street Crips in 1980s Watts, Los Angeles, tells his story – from cooking crack at age 13 and a stint at a maximum security prison to executive chef and co-owner of Alta Adams in Los Angeles, one of the best restaurants in the country. In My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole,…

In Fly Girl: A Memoir, novelist Ann Hood reflects on her time as a flight attendant. She learned how to evacuate seven kinds of aircraft, deliver a baby, mix proper cocktails, administer oxygen, and fend off passengers’ advances – while walking a million miles in high heels. Despite its roots in sexist standards, the job empowered her. And in The Family Outing: A Memoir, Jessi Hempel writes about growing up in a seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family.…

Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family is Rabia Chaudry‘s love letter (with recipes) to fresh roti, chaat, chicken biryani, ghee, and pakoras – and an often hilarious dissection of life in a Muslim immigrant family. It is also a searingly honest portrait of a woman grappling with a body that works, but refuses to meet the expectations of others. In Illegally Yours: A Memoir, TV writer Rafael Agustin (Jane the Virgin) recalls how,…

In Jonathan Escoffery‘s If I Survive You: Stories, Topper, Sanya, and their two children flee to Miami in the 1970s to escape the political violence of their native Kingston, Jamaica. But America is hardly the promised land. The linked stories center on Trelawny, the couple’s youngest son, as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and bad luck. In A.M. Homes‘ The Unfolding: A Novel, the Big Guy loves his family,…

In The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty, Sy Montgomery reveals the wondrous world of these birds and what they can teach us about nature, life, and love. These are no pets but fierce predators, deeply emotional, quick to anger and frustration, and capable of holding a grudge for years – but they are also intensely loyal. In The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack E. Davis takes readers from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of an enduring all-American species.…

Do we need bookstores in the 21st century? And if so, what makes a good one? With In Praise of Good Bookstores, Jeff Deutsch – director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world – offers an eloquent and charming reflection on such entities. It is both a loving homage and an urgent account of why they are essential community places of discovery, refuge, and fulfillment. Joining is Robert Martin, founder of TheIndependantBookseller.com;…

In This is What it Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You, Susan Rogers, Ph.D., and her co-author, Ogi Ogas, Ph.D., explain why we fall in love with music. Readers are guided to recognize their “listener profile” based on responses to seven key dimensions of any song, deepening the connection to favorite artists, and changing how we listen to music. Joining her is Nelson George, author of the D Hunter mystery series and the nonfiction The Death of Rhythm &…

Blitz Bazawule‘s debut, The Scent of Burnt Flowers: A Novel, follows Melvin and his fiancé, Bernadette, from a parking lot in Alabama to Ghana. With a persistent FBI agent on their trail and an unexpected encounter with a highlife musician adding lust, magic, and danger, what was meant to be a fresh start quickly spirals into chaos, threatening their relationship and lives. The Perfume Burned His Eyes is Michael Imperioli‘s debut novel, an edgy coming-of-age story that follows Matthew from 1976,…

Namwali Serpell‘s The Furrows: A Novel tells the story of Cassandra Williams, who was 12 when her 7-year-old brother, Wayne, is lost forever. Years later, Cassandra meets a man mysterious and familiar, who is also searching for someone and his own place in the world. His name is Wayne. And in Jacinda Townsend‘s Mother Country: A Novel, a toddler in Morocco is adopted by a visiting African American woman. But the girl already has a mother – an undocumented Mauritanian who was trafficked as a teen – and the two women face an inevitable reckoning.…

In An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville, Reza Aslan explores the story of Howard Baskerville, a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton. Baskerville is a believer in the gospel of Jesus – and Wilson’s, by which constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. While in his missionary service in Iran in 1907, he joined his students fighting for a democratic revolution, and it cost him his life. This is a ReadingEast program.…

Join Miami Book Fair as we dive into “The Legacy of José Saramago in Contemporary Literature,” a conversation featuring Portuguese writer VALTER HUGO MAE, winner of the 2007 Saramago Prize and 2012 Oceanos Prize, and Portuguese writer and journalist ANA MARGARIDA DE CARVALHO, winner of the 2013 and 2016 Portuguese Writers Association Award, and film director MIGUEL GONÇALVES MENDES. Moderated by RICARDO VASCONCELOS, PH.D., professor of Portuguese and Brazilian literature at San Diego State University.…

El periodista, escritor, columnista del “Miami Herald” y analista de CNN en Español ANDRÉS OPPENHEIMER presenta Cómo salir del pozo, un innovador ensayo que explora el fenómeno global de la insatisfacción, y propone nuevas estrategias para que no solo seamos más prósperos, sino también más felices. El autor responderá preguntas del público, y se referirá también a algunos aspectos de la actual situación política argentina y latinoamericana. Oppenheimer conversará con el reconocido presentador MARIO KREUTZBERGER, DON FRANCISCO. Compra Cómo salir del pozo.…

The 2023 National Book Award-honored authors in Young People’s Literature visit Miami Book Fair to share more about their books and answer questions from Miami-Dade County’s middle and high school students acting as journalists! Hosted by EBONY LADELLE, authors include ERIN BOW, Simon Sort of Says; KENNETH M. CADOW, Gather; HUDA FAHMY, Huda F Cares; DAN NOTT, Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day;…

JAIME BAYLY presenta su nueva novela Los genios, donde recrea los gloriosos años de la férrea amistad entre Gabriel García Márquez y Mario Vargas Llosa, y explora los secretos y las iras que hicieron añicos esa relación. Compra Los genios. – Bayly…

Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better is a bold call to reexamine how our government operates – and how it sometimes fails. JENNIFER PAHLKA shows why we must stop trying to move what we have today onto new technology and instead consider what it would mean to truly recode American government. In Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, ALISSA QUART explores America’s “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” credo,…

In War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, Russian journalist MIKHAIL ZYGAR explains the impact of a new generation of Ukrainians, and provides an overview of a war that continues to threaten the world as we know it. Moderating is author, historian, and award-winning professor PHIL HARLING. Buy War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine. – Zygar…

In My What If Year: A Memoir, ALISHA FERNANDEZ MIRANDA writes about pausing her successful high-powered career for a year to explore a few jobs of her dreams, a journey that tested what she thought she was physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of. In EMMA GREY’s The Last Love Note: A Novel, two years after losing her husband, Kate is still grieving, solo parenting, and lurching from one comedic crisis to the next. In BRITTANY MEANS’ Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways: A Memoir,…

In the bittersweet You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir, poet MAGGIE SMITH explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself, ultimately reckoning with contemporary womanhood and the historical power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. In We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of], HANNAH PITTARD recalls a decade’s worth of unforgettable conversations, beginning with the one in which she discovers her husband has been having sex with her charismatic best friend.…

SANDRA GUZMÁN, editor of Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women, is joined by contributors ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, DAINA CHAVIANO, ANJANETTE DELGADO, and ESMERALDA SANTIAGO to discuss the power, strength, and creativity of the 140+ voices collected in the book, including writers, leaders, scholars, and activists, and 24 Indigenous voices. Moderating is Emmy-winning journalist SOLEDAD O’BRIEN, author of Latino in America.…

In Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome, comedian APARNA NANCHERLA delivers a collection of essays marked by her signature humor, sharing hilarious and incredibly insightful meditations on body image, productivity culture, the ultra-meme-ability of mental health language, and who, exactly, gets to make art “about nothing.” In her memoir Living My Best Life, Hun: Following Your Dreams is No Joke, LONDON HUGHES recounts disastrous experiences in friendships, relationships, and career choices, but reminds readers that however bad things get,…

In Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark, Egyptian American astrophysicist SARAFINA EL-BADRY NANCE shares how she carved out a place in her field, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown. In ELIO MORILLO’s The Boy Who Reached the Stars: A Memoir, he chronicles an itinerant childhood and unique journey from the farthest expanse of human endeavor – space – to AI and robotics.…

In her highly anticipated debut, Legitimate Kid: A Memoir, AIDA RODRIGUEZ chronicles her whirlwind life – from being kidnapped (twice!) and enduring homelessness with her children to securing an HBO Max special and multiple development deals. Rodriguez used her gifts and worked tirelessly to turn her pain into biting comedy that takes on everything from misogyny and racism to the latest news headlines. Moderating is GUISELL GÓMEZ, editor-in-chief for BELatina News. Buy Legitimate Kid: A Memoir.…

In Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, JEFFREY TOOBIN details the profound legacy of McVeigh, from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Featuring interviews with key figures such as Bill Clinton, Homegrown provides not only a powerful retelling of one of the great outrages of our time, but a warning for the future. Moderating is author and journalist MICHAEL GRUNWALD, senior writer for Politico magazine. Buy Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism.…

SUZANNE NOSSEL, CEO of PEN America, discusses freedom of expression in the U.S. and around the world, and PEN’s role in addressing attempts at censorship. She is joined by RENEE O’CONNOR, South Florida high school teacher, and BEN FOUNTAIN, recipient of the PEN Hemingway Award and author of Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution and his latest, Devil Makes Three: A Novel, a tale of greed and American complicities in Haiti.…

JOSEPH SASSOON’s The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire is a saga of the making – and undoing – of a family dynasty. In The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America, DANIEL SCHULMAN shares the story of the German-Jewish immigrants who influenced what would become some of the largest investment banks in the world. Buy The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire.…

In Optical Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization, COCO KRUMME explores how optimization has taken over the world – and the urgent case for a new approach. In Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, BRIAN MERCHANT discusses how automation changed our world and how it’s shaping our future. Moderated by NATALIA MARTINEZ-KALININA, founder and principal of NMK Group. Buy Optical Illusions: The False Promise of Optimization. – Krumme Buy Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.…

PABLO BRESCIA’s Diego Maradona: A Socio-Cultural Study tells the story of one of the greatest soccer players in history, who also became a culturally constructed political figurehead. In Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, SCOTT EYMAN offers an insightful portrait of a genius and his fall from grace in an America consumed by political turmoil. And in ADRIAN MATEJKA’s Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century,…