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Back to SearchSimon Appleford, "Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
Episode 1852
Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar America (U Virginia Press, 2023) is the first book-length critical examination of the p…
11 months, 1 week ago
Dustin Condren, "An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 1851
An Imaginary Cinema: Sergei Eisenstein and the Unrealized Film (Cornell UP, 2024) explores the unfinished cinematic projects developed and abandoned …
11 months, 1 week ago
Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 12
Philip Nash's book Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman (Routledge, 2022) is a concise and highly readable political biography that examines…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Lester D. Friedman, "Citizen Spielberg" (U of Illinois Press, 2022)
Episode 115
Steven Spielberg's extraordinary career redefined Hollywood, but his achievement goes far beyond shattered box office records. Rejecting the view of …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)
Episode 90
A platinum beauty with an ugly secret; a tall, dark, and handsome husband with murder in his eyes; starkly lit interiors that may or may not include …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Meg Groff, "Not If I Can Help It" (Rivertown Books, 2025)
Episode 1846
Meg Groff's memoir Not If I Can Help It (Rivertown Books, 2025) recounts some of the most harrowing, infuriating, yet inspiring stories from Groff’s …
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Aaron Magid, "The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan" (Universal Publishers, 2025)
Episode 1847
The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan (Universal Publishers, 2025) is the first comprehensive biography on Jordan’s King Abdullah. Drawing on in…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Judith L. Pearson, "Radical Sisters: Shirley Temple Black, Rose Kushner, Evelyn Lauder, and the Dawn of the Breast Cancer Movement" (Mayo Clinic Press, 2025)
Episode 1845
There was a time when women's health was marginalized. There was a time when breast cancer wasn't discussed. There was a time when October wasn't pin…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Al Posamentier, "Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians" (Prometheus, 2020)
Episode 45
Today I talked to Alfred S. Posamentier, a co-author (with Christian Spreitzer) of Math Makers: The Lives and Works of 50 Famous Mathematicians (Prom…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Martha Biondi, "We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation" (U California Press, 2025)
Episode 1843
Explores forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt.
For many civil rights activists, t…
11 months, 3 weeks ago