# Tom Zoellner

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Tom Zoellner on Letting Go of the Hustle to Find Meaning in Writing Rather than Publishing

If you're thinking about writing an authority building book, and I really hope you are, and you don't want to be counting pennies or checking your book sales all the time, you actually want a book that's going to change your life, I can tell you how. Just go to sevenfigurebooks.com. I'm not trying …

Bibliocracy Radio: Tom Zoellner- The Road Was Full of Thorns

A welcome regular on Bibliocracy, my end-of-year 2025 Fund Drive guest is Tom Zoellner, celebrated in a three-part series starting today which features his latest, The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War.  This remarkable book researches, reconsiders, and revis…

How Slavery Ended

In this episode of Think Back, I talk with historian Tom Zoellner about his new book The Road Was Full of Thorns: Running Toward Freedom in the American Civil War. We dig into a dimension of emancipation that often gets overshadowed by presidential proclamations and congressional acts: the ground-…

'Badass' Harriet Tubman's Most Daring Deed

Has the Civil War’s single largest emancipation event been hiding in plain sight? In this episode of Think Back, I speak with historian Edda L. Fields-Black about her book Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War (2024), co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize…

Abraham Lincoln, Party Boss

Historian Matthew Pinsker’s new book, Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln, portrays the 16th president as an ambitious and effective party leader who organized voters, courted donors, dug up dirt on opponents, and knew when to hide his hand. Pinsker follows Lincoln from his early Whi…

The Most Successful Marketing Campaign in History

The desire for diamonds isn't natural, and it's not ancient. It's entirely manufactured by one company inside a single decade. I got engaged last year. And like most women in America, my wife had a couple of criteria: a ring, and a diamond on it. Specifically, she wanted a lab-grown diamond. I go…