Speaking of Writers
428 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWelcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ [email protected].
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Lisa Gardner- Still See You Everywhere
April 15, 2024 10:48 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBIn STILL SEE YOU EVERYWHERE, Frankie Elkin is suddenly contacted by Kaylee Pierson, “the Beautiful Butcher,” a notorious serial killer who viciously murdered eighteen men. Pierson – on death row in Texas with only 21 days left to live – has received a tip on the whereabouts of her beloved younger sister Leilani, who was kidnapped more than a decade earlier and may be in the clutches of Pierson’s wealthy ex-boyfriend. Fearing for her sister’s life, Pierson desperately needs Frankie’s help. De...
Brent Snyder- The Wyvern's Apprentice
April 13, 2024 20:35 - 7 minutes - 5.68 MBWhen a young girl suddenly finds herself thrust into the spotlight, she must decide what she will do. Will she leave her peaceful village? Will she give up the life she knows for one that she wants even more, even if it means leaving her family and friends? Tyr'Ynyn has become the newest healer and must set out to train for her new life. She's leaving behind her best friends and her family to embark on a new career that found her by coincidence. Along the way, she picks up friends in the mo...
Elias Karo-Blood and Stone
April 05, 2024 03:03 - 10 minutes - 8.18 MBPercival Drake is the prince of Edelheim and the heir to the throne, and with his father’s ever-worsening illness, it seems he’ll take that throne soon. Until, for the first time in 150 years, Edelheim is invited to attend a council of nobles in the neighboring kingdom of Aethel. And then, disaster strikes, the Temple of Last Rest where the council is being held is destroyed, and Percival is caught in the middle of it all. Now disowned by his family, armed with a blade cursed by ancient magi...
Scott Carson-Lost Man's Lane
April 04, 2024 03:02 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBFor a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true—particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller’s internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes until a terrifying moment that turns public pr...
Steve Lazarus- Call Me Sonny
March 28, 2024 09:53 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBShortly after a corrupt attorney pays a visit to an inmate serving a life sentence in a federal supermax prison, people from the inmate’s past start to die. Bryce Chandler, a retired FBI agent eking out a living as a private investigator in the Florida Keys, ties the string of killings to a shadowy murder-for-hire organization operating on the dark web. As Bryce digs into the murders, he discovers the final name on the hit list is his own. Meanwhile, a simple divorce case turns out to be muc...
Log and Stick by Ritvik Gautam
March 26, 2024 00:49 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBThis story is about Log and Stick. They’re two characters, called Log and Stick, and they live in San Jose, CA. Log is a wood log and Stick is a wood stick. They have been together since their childhood, with an enemy called Evil Leaf. Leaf’s name was originally “Good Leaf”, but people around him called him “Evil Leaf” because of the acts he would do. Then, years later, all three of them had graduated from college. Then Evil Leaf started to cook up a plan… to steal Dubai’s Ruby! Not so soon ...
Lisa Unger-The New Couple in 5B
March 25, 2024 02:10 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBAbout The New Couple in 5B Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad’s late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. One would almost never suspect the dark history lurking behind its perfectly maintained facade. At first, the building and its eclectic tenants coul...
Peggy Bland- Beauty Is a Beast
March 22, 2024 01:54 - 9 minutes - 9.3 MBI wrote this book to help other pretty and beautiful women to wake to being lied to, abused, and manipulated by men to get them to marry them. Your life is your journey; no one else's and you should pay attention to your inner feelings. You do not have to live up to other's expectations or approval. You are you and there is not another one like you. Make your special place and make it the way you want it to be. When you hear criticism, do you think that it is true, or that you are doing some...
Battle Cry: Decent Into War by Yamikani Kafungu
March 20, 2024 21:23 - 12 minutes - 11 MBTheo a 12 year old boy born to the greatest military mind in French history Matheo LA Laurent was traumatized by the death of his father during an investigation in Spain he contemplated suicide before being stopped by his adopted older brother Jules later he found a book in his father's belongings that contained his contingency plans if all went wrong after reading it he found out he had an uncle who knew everything his father knew so he traveled to find his uncle so he could get revenge for...
J.J. McAvoy- Hathor and The Prince
March 19, 2024 02:43 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBHathor Du Bell has always fought to break free from the shadow left by her revered older sister, Aphrodite. It has been two years since Hathor’s debut, and while Aphrodite has married a duke and become a duchess, Hathor has been left with the ton’s most mediocre, boring suitors. With the London season coming to a close, Hathor’s anxieties reach a peak. Will she be the only Du Bell unable to find her perfect match? J. J. McAvoy has written numerous independently published novels that have be...
Barbara J Meredith-Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday
March 12, 2024 19:11 - 8 minutes - 7.32 MBYESTERDAY we could go to our classrooms in school and our parents went to work every day. TODAY some of our parents stay home from work and we are home schooled." Once again, meet Daisy the cat and her three canine friends, H-Dee, Smokie, and Rocky, as together they face a worldwide pandemic. The story tackles the Covid-19 pandemic and how everyone's life changed in just one year. Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday: A Covid-19 Story begins with the definition of the words pandem...
C.J. Box - Three-Inch Teeth
March 09, 2024 12:34 - 10 minutes - 9.17 MB#1 New York Times award-winning author C.J. Box (an expert on all things Wyoming and the West) and his next Joe Pickett novel (#24 in the series). In this latest, the Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human. The topic of grizzly bears is always a curiosity to people traveling to Wyoming and the surrounding areas and in the past, but it hasn’t been a real threat to people in the area. However, the population of grizzly bears in th...
Nick Petrie-The Price You Pay
March 02, 2024 12:22 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBThe work of acclaimed and award-winning author Nick Petrie continues to gain esteem. In his 2016 debut, The Drifter, Petrie introduced Peter Ash, a war veteran struggling with PTSD who finds himself in dangerous situations and facing challenges that only a man with his unique skill set can solve. In THE PRICE YOU PAY Peter Ash, a war veteran struggling with PTSD is placed in his most personal predicament yet. He must follow his friend Lewis into a criminal underworld when secrets from the pa...
Sherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein-AMERICAN WINGS
February 24, 2024 17:18 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBSherri L. Smith, author of the critically acclaimed story Flygirl, and Elizabeth Wein, author of the award-winning book Code Name Verity, join forces in AMERICAN WINGS (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) to shed light on an important and lesser-known chapter in Black aviation history and Black contributions to aviation during the Golden Age of Flight. In the years between World War I and World War II, aviation fever was everywhere, including among Black Americans. But what hope did a Black person have ...
Kimberleigh Patterson-Random Poems 4 Random Times
February 17, 2024 18:37 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBThis book is designed to help readers feel connected to a deeper source of light, knowledge, and peace. It gives readers a chance to feel, think, and ponder the trials of everyday life and it gives guidance on how to manage them a little better without feeling hopeless or alone. Kimberleigh was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She participated in the EBR Magnet program throughout her academic career. Lee High School is where she found my passion for poetry and the Army National Gu...
Paal Piir- Sprinkle: Celebrate, Meditate, and Understand Our Drinkle
February 15, 2024 03:17 - 8 minutes - 6.83 MBSprinkle is a poem of poems, just like how a sprinkle is full of unique sprinkles. Here are new discoveries about what is Existence and Spirit and Awareness, preciously and slowly made understandable without resorting to belief or guessing. This does not make religion and science obsolete because they have unique purposes and provide many cool tools. Sprinkle helps clarify how and why their tools and toys work. Philosophers and others have long postulated that our real practical underlying t...
Jack Kelly- God Save Benedict Arnold
February 11, 2024 11:44 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBFrom military heroism to infamy, Benedict Arnold’s name is one that has become synonymous with treasonous behavior since the beginnings of America. GOD SAVE BENEDICT ARNOLD: The True Story of America’s Most Hated Man by Jack Kelly (St. Martin’s Press) is an exploration of the triumphs, flaws, and motivations of a figure who left an indelible mark on American history. In the book, Kelly does not exonerate Benedict Arnold for treason, but he demonstrates how Arnold was essential to victory ...
Barbara J. Meredith-Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday: A Covid-19 Story
February 07, 2024 19:49 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB"YESTERDAY we could go to our classrooms in school and our parents went to work every day. TODAY some of our parents stay home from work and we are home schooled." Once again, meet Daisy the cat and her three canine friends, H-Dee, Smokie, and Rocky, as together they face a worldwide pandemic. The story tackles the Covid-19 pandemic and how everyone's life changed in just one year. Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday: A Covid-19 Story begins with the definition of the words pande...
Brad Taylor-Dead Man's Hand
February 04, 2024 02:35 - 13 minutes - 6.82 MBNew York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor is back with a propulsive and topical edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring Pike Logan as he goes head-to-head with Putin’s henchmen. To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukranian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian ...
Jessie Asya Kanzer -Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky
February 01, 2024 00:52 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBAward-winning author Jessie Kanzer's UNLOCKING YOUR INNER ZELENSKY: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader , draws on Volodymyr Zelensky's words and actions to show how to improve how we lead, and how we live. Early praise and more info are below, and a list of possible interview/discussion questions is attached. Jessie Kanzer, a half-Ukrainian child of the USSR who had a small part in Zelensky’s first major film, sees Zelensky as "a spiritual leader for our times." As a nati...
Deborah Goodrich Royce- Reef Road
January 27, 2024 09:29 - 12 minutes - 6.56 MBThe hugely successful psychological thriller and page turner in REEF ROAD by Deborah Goodrich Royce is out in paperback (with some additional content). Deborah is Also the author of Ruby Falls and Finding Mrs. Ford, Goodrich Royce is a former film and television actress, best remembered by soap opera fans for her role of Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane on All My Children. Reef Road explores a decades old unsolved murder of a young girl. Inspired by a real-life crime that af...
David T. Beito-The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
January 20, 2024 13:50 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBIn 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously proclaimed freedom of speech as the first of his “four freedoms,” but his behavior, including confining over 120,000 American citizens in concentration camps, often belied such flowery prose. In the new book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, Independent Institute Sr. Fellow David T. Beito exposes FDR’s dictatorial endeavors of spying on U.S. citizens, i...
Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill -ELVIS AND THE COLONEL An Insider’s Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business
January 15, 2024 20:57 - 17 minutes - 15.5 MBElvis and the Colonel: An Insider’s Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business by Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill is a fresh biography of entertainment manager Colonel Tom Parker, a largely misunderstood figure in the life of Elvis Presley. McDonald, who worked under Parker for years, presents a contrarian and corrective point of view on a trailblazing man. The heart of the book is the long, strong, warm, and complex relationship between two iconic men. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Gr...
Dr. Steven Lesk-Footprints of Schizophrenia :The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
January 11, 2024 01:06 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBWhat causes schizophrenia? Is it a genetic glitch or are environmental factors at play? A combination of the two? Whatever the reason, what medication and course of action will give the patient the best chance at a normal life? Steven Lesk, MD, has been a practicing, board certified psychiatrist for almost four decades, treating thousands of adult patients while researching, writing articles, and mentoring students. He served as Chairman of the Department of Inpatient Psychiatric Services ...
David Head and Timothy Hemmis- A Republic of Scoundrels
January 07, 2024 22:03 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBThe Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints. A Republic of Scoundrels (Pegasus Books), edited by David Head and Timothy Hemmis, chronicles the Founders who were schemers and opportunists, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s. We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrifi...
Michailah Belle-Vision of Inspiration
January 06, 2024 03:41 - 13 minutes - 9.24 MBA Vision Of Inspiration is a book about Love, Abuse, Mental Health, and Faith. Going through life hating yourself and wanting to die, because you could never be enough, or perfect for humans that claim they love you. The same humans that claim they love you are the same ones that betray you the most. Honesty, Loyalty, and Real Love are extremely hard to find these days. This book will prove the obstacles and tribulations I've had to go through to find it. This book is controversial and will...
H. W. Brands- Founding Partisans -Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
January 02, 2024 01:15 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. Author Bio: H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, including The General vs. the President, a New York Times bestseller, and Our First Civil War, his most recent book. Two of his biographies, The ...
Tom Clavin-The Last Outlaws The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
December 28, 2023 20:31 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBIn The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang , New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin tells, for the first time, the full story of the infamous Coffeyville bank heist, perpetrated in 1892 by the Dalton Gang. Clavin, known and admired for his immersive narrative style, traces the lives of the Daltons and their accomplices to illuminate, in riveting detail, another fascinating and violent moment in early American history. ABOUT THE AUTHOR TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New Yo...
William Alexander- Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
December 24, 2023 09:12 - 16 minutes - 13.4 MBThe tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our disaffection with industrial foods — while becoming the most popular vegetable in America (and, in fact, the world). Each summer, tomato festivals crop up across the country; the Heinz ketchup bottle, instantly recognizable, has earned a spot in the Sm...
James Lee Burke- Flags on The Bayou
December 17, 2023 03:08 - 11 minutes - 6.19 MBFrom New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers – are caught in the maelstrom. About the author James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He’s authored thirty-sev...
Katlyn Marie Carter - Democracy in Darkness
December 12, 2023 02:24 - 14 minutes - 8.06 MBDoes democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence. In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic—an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrec...
Lynne Golodner- Woman of Valor
December 09, 2023 13:48 - 15 minutes - 10.1 MBLynne Golodner writes emotional novels with compelling Jewish characters who are determined to fill their lives with passion, purpose and love. Her first novel, Woman of Valor, joins a body of work that includes two poetry collections and six nonfiction books, including Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering and The Flavors of Faith: Holy Breads. Lynne is a writing coach, marketing entrepreneur and host of the Make Meaning Podcast, and her creative nonfiction has been published around...
Jerome Peterson- The Haunting of Andrew Sharpai
December 06, 2023 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBSearching for love leads Andrew Sharpai down a path of rejection and haunting memories. When he encounters LaRae DuFont, however, Vegas' famous show dancer, it is love at first sight. She tells him a story in which Mary Magdalene thought Jesus was a gardener teaching Andrew that everything is not as it seems. A tragic twist of fate alters the plans of the lovers. Grievous questions lead Andrew down a drunken path to an Idaho town, where he is far from the Vegas crowd. In Pocatello, he meets...
Jonathan Farris-Shadows In The Sunset - Three Novellas
December 04, 2023 23:30 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB“Shadows in the Sunset” consists of three novellas, the first being the story that gives the book its title, a story of a Summer lost and never forgotten. It follows a group of youths adventuring through the terrain of Big Sur. Moments are made and the truth of everything is felt through each person’s expression. The second novella is “Underland (The Lost Children),” which follows the simple story of James and Summer, two “fools” just visiting the country fair. Lastly, “A House with No Pro...
Laurence Leamer -HITCHCOCK’S BLONDES
December 04, 2023 00:00 - 9 minutes - 5.47 MBIn HITCHCOCK’S BLONDES, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director’s career—from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday and beyond. Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren—who starred ...
Dr. Leggie L. Boone- Dear Dream Maker
December 02, 2023 12:10 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBWhen I rest my eyes and fall into that place of disconnection from my surroundings, I slide over into a land of creative, colorful narrations. My dreams are often so eventful that I wake up exhausted. The events in this book are real in my dreaming mind. This volume includes dreams and notes from 1997 through 2006. I have been journaling my dreams for decades and decided there must be a reason, therefore I am sharing. These episodes of varying lengths are neither fiction nor nonfiction, fant...
William Covey- Desolation Part One
November 30, 2023 20:17 - 9 minutes - 4.98 MBVisited by the spirit world, a Hopi woman, an Aborigine man, and a Rabbi are told the earth will soon undergo worldwide desolation. They are divinely united to reveal the message to all humans that live upon Mother Earth. It all begins with a thermonuclear war between India and China over greed, which starts the cataclysmic events that alter the entire planet. They were told that man's carelessness with his scientific technology will cause a cascade of events that will literally change the f...
Cliff Sloan-THE COURT AT WAR FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
November 29, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBThe inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country, with consequences that endure today. By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices—the most by any president except George Washington—and handpicked the chief justice. But the wartime Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed by the c...
David Baldacci- The Edge
November 28, 2023 02:07 - 13 minutes - 6.99 MB“The Master Storyteller” David Baldacci is back with the second book in his 6:20 Man series: The Edge. The 6:20 Man series is praised: "Corporate conspiracies, corruption, and murder—all come together in one of thriller fans’ most anticipated books of the summer . . . Baldacci’s experience in this genre truly shines as he builds complex layers of riveting twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat!"―Reader's Digest "A complex, high-powered thriller that will keep the reader gu...
John Hartzell- You Can't Go Back
November 22, 2023 21:05 - 6 minutes - 4.87 MBYou have to do it everyday and I know it will be hard, some days it may feel even impossible. But you have to believe in your self and I promise you'll never experience setbacks from the Hands of believing in yourself Just get it done. John Robert Hartzell was born in Pasco County Florida, and spent most of his childhood growing up in northeast Ohio. For more info on this book click HERE
Daniel Dain- A History of Boston
November 19, 2023 13:23 - 26 minutes - 21.1 MBBoston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights movement, the abolition movement, and the women’s rights movement. But the city that gave us the first use of ether as anesthesia, the telephone, technicolor film, and the mutual fund—the city where Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott f...
Jennifer Bedsole- Face To The Wind
November 16, 2023 20:14 - 12 minutes - 12 MBIt’s 1923 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where a risky romance between a mistreated young woman and a boxer owned by the mob motivates self-discovery, loyalty toward passions, and a life-threatening struggle for freedom. A mundane life is far from Angelina’s only suffrage. Pitying the monster that once loved her as a daughter is just as much a captivity as his fist to her face. Fear locks her door; daring to dream is her key. For fisherman Vincent, unsought ties with the world of organize...
Michael MaCambridge-The Big Time- How The 1970's Transformed Sports in America
November 11, 2023 11:34 - 17 minutes - 12.9 MBA captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of American culture. Every decade brings change, but as Michael MacCambridge chronicles in THE BIG TIME, no decade in American sports history featured such convulsive cultural shifts as the 1970s. So many things happened during the decade—the move of sports into prime-time television, the beginning of athletes’ gaining a sense of autonomy fo...
Matthew J Davenport-THE LONGEST MINUTE: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
November 06, 2023 00:43 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBMore than 117 years ago, the largest city in the Western U.S. shook, crumbled, burned, and was completely devastated in an incomprehensible show of force by nature. With almost the entire city still asleep, the next 48 seconds sent shockwaves through the city, buckling streets, shattering water mains, collapsing buildings on slumbering residents, and crushing hundreds to death while trapping many alive. Relying on archival sources and hundreds of previously unpublished letters and photograph...
Sameul Freedman- INTO THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
October 31, 2023 11:55 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBMany know Hubert Humphrey as a man whose public life ended in disgrace—as the man who lost his bearings during the Vietnam War and then lost the presidency to Richard Nixon. But decades before the Vietnam War or his presidential run, Humphrey was known as a trailblazing statesman who electrified the nation through an impassioned speech in support of civil rights at the July 1948 Democratic National Convention. Urging the delegates to “get out of the shadow of state’s rights and walk forthr...
Samuel Freedman- INTO THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
October 31, 2023 11:55 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBMany know Hubert Humphrey as a man whose public life ended in disgrace—as the man who lost his bearings during the Vietnam War and then lost the presidency to Richard Nixon. But decades before the Vietnam War or his presidential run, Humphrey was known as a trailblazing statesman who electrified the nation through an impassioned speech in support of civil rights at the July 1948 Democratic National Convention. Urging the delegates to “get out of the shadow of state’s rights and walk forthr...
Elizabeth Varon-Longstreet The Confederate General Who Defied the South
October 28, 2023 21:05 - 15 minutes - 8.93 MBFrom acclaimed historian Elizabeth Varon comes a true story of courage and controversy – a new exploration of one of the most complex figures from American Civil War history. LONGSTREET, delves deep into the life and legacy of General James Longstreet. With LONGSTREET, Varon – the recipient of the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for her book Armies of Deliverance – provides a meticulously researched biography that unveils the lesser-known aspects of General Longstreet's story, from his ea...
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver-Clean Sweep VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45
October 14, 2023 11:32 - 12 minutes - 6.09 MBA vivid narrative history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its victory in the skies over Nazi Germany. On August 7, 1942, two events of major military importance occurred on separate sides of the planet. In the South Pacific, the United States went on the offensive, landing the First Marine Division at Guadalcanal. In England, 12 B-17 bombers of the new Eighth Air Force's 97th Bombardment Group bombed t...
Tom Rachman- The Imposters
October 10, 2023 12:35 - 17 minutes - 13.4 MBTom Rachman’s debut, the New York Times bestselling The Imperfectionists, was a novel-in-stories, each chapter told of a different character in the news business at a time of journalistic tumult. (Rachman was a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press stationed in Rome, then an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris.) His new novel, THE IMPOSTERS , spotlights a different writer per chapter set in our moment of cultural tumult--a standup-comedy writer in LA; a delivery driv...
John Hunter- Maps and Legends The Story of R.E.M.
October 08, 2023 14:47 - 5 minutes - 3.31 MBABOUT JOHN HUNTER AND MAPS AND LEGENDS: THE STORY OF R.E.M. Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M. by John Hunter, the most comprehensive biography of R.E.M. yet published. Maps and Legends covers not just the band's entire career, from Radio Free Europe to Collapse Into Now, but also delves deeply into the childhoods of each of the band members. It tells the story of each of the teenage bands one or more of the members played in before R.E.M. - among them Bad Habits, Shadowfax, the Back ...