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Back to SearchMichael Lewis: "Going Infinite"
Episode 404
From the best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular collapse and the enigmatic founder at its center. When M…
1 year, 11 months ago
Charlotte Shane: "An Honest Woman"
Episode 403
Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual …
1 year, 11 months ago
Valerie Bauerlein: "The Devil at His Elbow"
Episode 402
Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s violent downfall, from a veteran Wall Street Journal r…
1 year, 11 months ago
Chris Matthews: "Tip and the Gipper"
Episode 401
Listen to Michael's conversation with Chris Matthews about "Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked".... a magnificent personal history of a time wh…
1 year, 11 months ago
Jonathan Turley: The Indispensable Right"
Episode 400
A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others. Listen to Michael's conversation with G…
1 year, 11 months ago
Mark Halperin: "How To Beat Trump"
Episode 399
Looking back at the 2020 presidential campaign, listen to his conversation Michael had with political analyst Mark Halperin, author of "How To Beat T…
1 year, 11 months ago
Annie Jacobsen: "Nuclear War"
Episode 398
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the tri…
1 year, 11 months ago
David Maraniss: "Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World"
Episode 397
An account of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome reveals the competition's unexpected influence on the modern world, in a narrative synopsis that pays …
1 year, 11 months ago
William J. Kole: "The Big 100"
Episode 396
Journalist William J. Kole, reluctant but newly minted member of AARP, explores the looming era of super-aging—incredibly longer lifespans overall, a…
2 years ago
Nelson DeMille: "Wild Fire"
Episode 395
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille comes a suspenseful new novel featuring Detective John Corey and an all-too-plausible conspi…
2 years ago