This fall Regnery Publishing wll launch a new history imprint aimed at giving more attention to subjects and events that have tended to be overlooked, according to Alex Novak, Regnery associate publisher who is overseeing the imprint. The launch list includes Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe and the Election That Created the Bill of Rights and Changed a Nation. In addition to history titles, the imprint will publish new history, biography, and military history titles, mostly as hardcovers and e-books.
Regnery History readers, said Novak, "overlap with Regnery’s readers of nonfiction current events. We did the current events titles on a rush schedule. But we decided that in order to get the right sell-in and the right publicity, we should take more time because history titles are less current-events driven.”
Novak described some of the imprint’s other fall titles: “Omar Bradley: General at War by Jim DeFelice—it’s the first objective full-length biography. Bully! The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt by Rick Marschall, which includes over 200 vintage political cartoons, since the author is a collector; they’re in full color, and many are reproduced for the first time.” Another fall title is the paperback edition of Warren Kozak’s LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay, originally published by Regnery. “Books like those,” Novak explained, “fit into the mold of the controversial. We are looking for misunderstood historical figures, mysteries, and controversies. People come to us with less-than-conventional history topics, and we say there’s a market for it.”
Unlike Regnery's political and current event titles that focus on conservative issues, Regnery History will have different guidelines. “Regnery History will not be historical books for conservatives; it’s more for nonpartisan readers, whoever loves history, and loves a good story,” Novak said.
