Latest Chris gondek Podcast Episodes
Harvard Press Podcast- The Missile Next Door
Harvard Press Podcast - November 10, 2012 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Gretchen Heefner about the history of the Minuteman Missile System and how its deployment in the Plains altered the lives of ranching and farming communities.
Harvard Press Podcast- Brigham Young
Harvard Press Podcast - November 01, 2012 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews John Turner about the life of Mormon pioneer, Brigham Young.
Harvard Press Podcast- Freaks of Fortune
Harvard Press Podcast - October 22, 2012 14:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Jonathan Levy about how the idea of risk changed in 19th century America.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Omnivorous Mind
Harvard Press Podcast - April 16, 2012 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews John Allen about our evolving relationship with food.
Harvard Press Podcast- Gothicka
Harvard Press Podcast - March 21, 2012 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Victoria Nelson about the power of the Gothic imagination in modern culture..
Harvard Press Podcast- Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery and the Eclipse of Certainty
Harvard Press Podcast - March 06, 2012 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Modris Eksteins about a scandal involving forged Van Gogh's in Weimar Berlin.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
Harvard Press Podcast - February 28, 2012 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Lawrence Powell of Tulane University about the early history of New Orleans.
Harvard Press Podcast- To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
Harvard Press Podcast - January 09, 2012 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Sydney Nathans of Duke University about the efforts of escaped slave Mary Walker to liberate her family from North Carolina.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Unintended Reformation: How a Religous Revolution Secularized Society
Harvard Press Podcast - November 28, 2011 14:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Brad Gregory of the University of Notre Dame about the ongoing consequences of the Protestant Reformation on modern society.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
Harvard Press Podcast - October 17, 2011 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Mark McGurl of Stanford University about the history of Creative Writing Programs at American Universities.
Harvard Press Podcast- Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts
Harvard Press Podcast - September 19, 2011 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Mark Peterson of Mt. Holyoke about how Galileo's artistic training influenced his scientific methods.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
Harvard Press Podcast - September 12, 2011 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Denise Gigante of Stanford about the lives of the poet, John Keats and his brother, the Anglo-American businessman, George.
Harvard Press Podcast- Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation
Harvard Press Podcast - June 01, 2011 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews James Livingston of MIT about the amazing properties of magnetic levitation.
Harvard Press Podcast- Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act
Harvard Press Podcast - April 28, 2011 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Joe Roman of the University of Vermont about the history and consequences of the Endangered Species Act.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
Harvard Press Podcast - April 13, 2011 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Nicholas Frankel of VCU about the historical background of this Oscar Wilde classic.
Harvard Press Podcast- The Law of Life and Death
Harvard Press Podcast - April 01, 2011 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Elizabeth Price Foley of FIU about the legal issues around life and death in American jurisprudence.
Harvard Press Podcast- Deep Secrets: Boys, Friendships and the Crisis of Connection
Harvard Press Podcast - March 23, 2011 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Niobe Way of NYU about the problems boys have maintaining emotionally intimate friendships with other boys as they enter their teens.
Harvard Press Podcast- Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
Harvard Press Podcast - November 10, 2010 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsDavid Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Interview by Michael Orey, Public Affairs Director, NYU School of Law..
Harvard Press- What Was African American Literture?
Harvard Press Podcast - October 21, 2010 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Kenneth Warren about the relationship between Jim Crow and African American Literature.
Harvard Press- The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds and the Invention of Monogamy
Harvard Press Podcast - May 17, 2010 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Bernd Heinrich, the author of The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds and the Invention of Monogamy.
Stanley Cavell reads from his forthcoming book, Little Did I Know:Excerpts from Memory
Stanford University Press Podcast - May 10, 2010 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★ - 4 ratingsOn October 12, 2009, Stanley Cavell gave the inaugural lecture for Duke University's Center for Philosophy, Art, and Literature. The lecture was based on the concluding part of his autobiography, to be published later this year by Stanford University Press.
Companies On A Mission: Entreprenurial Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly and Profitably
Stanford University Press Podcast - March 29, 2010 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★ - 4 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Michael Russo, the author of Companies On A Mission: Entreprenurial Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly and Profitably.
Harvard Press- An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry
Harvard Press Podcast - March 17, 2010 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Wes Davis, the Editor of An Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry.
Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System
Stanford University Press Podcast - March 16, 2010 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★ - 4 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Stephen Davidson, the author of Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Healthcare System.
Harvard Press- We Ain't What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama
Harvard Press Podcast - January 22, 2010 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Stephen Tuck, the author of We Ain't What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama.
Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Culture and Corruption in College Athletics
Stanford University Press Podcast - January 19, 2010 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★ - 4 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Mark Yost, the author of Varsity Green: A Behind the Scenes Look at the Culture and Corruption in College Athletics.
Harvard Press- To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
Harvard Press Podcast - November 17, 2009 14:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Suzanne E. Smith, the author of To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death.
Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth that We Can't Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone
Stanford University Press Podcast - October 30, 2009 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★ - 4 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Jody Heymann, the co-author of Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth that We Can't Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone.
Harvard Press- America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
Harvard Press Podcast - October 26, 2009 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, the authors of America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity.
Harvard Press- Teaching What You Don't Know
Harvard Press Podcast - October 12, 2009 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★ - 15 ratingsChris Gondek interviews Therese Huston, the author of Teaching What You Don't Know.
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