Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKenneth Roth, "Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments" (Knopf, 2025)
Episode 61
For three decades, Kenneth Roth led Human Rights Watch, transforming it from a small advocacy group into one of the most influential human rights org…
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Jay Prosser, "Loving Strangers: A Camphorwood Chest, a Legacy, a Son Returns" (Black Spring Press, 2024)
Episode 607
A family memoir that builds a bridge across the terrible divides of our times. It’s a Jewish book, but not Just a Jewish book. It moves Jewish writin…
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The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn
Episode 253
Our book is: The Vice President's Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) by award-winning historian Dr…
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Alisse Waterston, "My Father's Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 347
On the podcast today I am joined by Presidential Scholar and Professor Emerita of Anthropology at John Jay College, City University of New York, Alis…
1 year, 4 months ago
Jeff Copeland, "Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn" (Feral House, 2025)
Episode 207
In Love You Madly, Holly Woodlawn (Feral House, 2025), Jeff Copeland brings readers into Hollywood in the 1980s and shares his story of writing a boo…
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Stan Bunger, "Mornings with Madden: My Radio Life With An American Legend" (Triumph, 2024)
Episode 283
John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation's most popular sport, the namesake of its best-selling sp…
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Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
Episode 252
Our book is: Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra (UNC Press, 2025), by Ericka Verba, which explores the life of Chilean musician and artist …
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Rosemary Wakeman, "The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 224
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of cosmopolitan globalization–and no one, perhaps, exemplified it more than Victor Sassoon, business tycoon, trader…
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Jean Strouse, "Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 162
At the height of his career, Sargent painted twelve portraits of the Wertheimer family, commissioned by Asher Wertheimer, a German-Jewish London art …
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Ann Schmiesing, "The Brothers Grimm: A Biography" (Yale UP, 2024)
Episode 271
Ann Schmiesing, Ph.D. is Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, with research interests spanning 18th an…
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