James Zug
An award-winning historian and journalist.
He is the author of a half dozen books: a history of U.S. squash (Scribner, 2003; revised paperback 2025); a biography of John Ledyard (Basic Books, 2005) that was named an Editor’s Choice by the New York Times Book Review; a history of the Guardian, a Cape Town anti-apartheid newspaper published in the 1940s and 1950s (Michigan State and UNISA Press, 2007); a history of Sidwell Friends School (2008); and Run to the Roar (Penguin, 2010), a book about leadership and mentoring through the life story of the winningest coach in U.S. collegiate history. He also edited John Ledyard’s collected writings (National Geographic, 2005).
James Zug
BOOKS
Squash: A History of the Game
Published by Scribner in September 2003, Squash has a foreword written by the late George Plimpton. The first history of the game in the United States, Squash incorporated every
Run to the Roar
Run to the Roar, published by Penguin in November 2010, is a book for parents and coaches who want to learn how to mentor the
The Long Conversation
In September 1883 Thomas Sidwell opened a new school in a back room in Washington, DC’s Quaker meetinghouse. In the next one hundred and twenty-five
The Guardian
The sole national anti-apartheid newspaper in South Africa, the Guardian not only reported on the liberation struggle but led it. Reporting on strikes, repression and political manuevering,
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook
Called “a man of genius,” by Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard was the first great American explorer. Ledyard (1751-1789) was a native of Groton, Connecticut. He
The Last Voyage of Captain Cook
The first time all of Ledyard’s writings have been published together, The Last Voyage of Captain Cook was published in March 2005 by the National Geographic Society. It
The Preserve: A Centennial History 1904-2004
The Preserve: A Centennial History 1904-2004 was privately published in a 2,000-copy edition in August 2004. Professionally designed, it is a 312-page, four-color, coffee-table book, with