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Back to SearchThe First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
Episode 250
Henry Christophe was born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, and fought to overthrow the British in North America before helpi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Michael Ray Richardson, "Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption" (Sports Publishing, 2024)
Episode 282
Michael Ray Richardson was a star in the making. After a stellar collegiate career at the University of Montana, where he was voted first team All-Bi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Patchen Barss, "The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius" (Basic Books, 2024)
Episode 270
When he was six years old, Roger Penrose discovered a sundial in a clearing near his house. Through that machine made of light, shadow, and time, Rog…
1 year, 5 months ago
Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany
Episode 248
Our book is: Dear Miss Perkins: A Story of Frances Perkins’s Efforts To Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany (Citadel Press, 2025) by Dr. Rebecca Brenner …
1 year, 5 months ago
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 176
We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook wo…
1 year, 5 months ago
Amy Aronson, "Chrystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 105
Amy Aronson is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Fordham University and former editor at Working Woman and Ms. magazines. Her…
1 year, 5 months ago
Stuart Elden, "The Early Foucault" (Polity Press, 2021)
Episode 260
What were the key ideas and influences on Michel Foucault’s early career? In The Early Foucault (Polity Press, 2021), Stuart Elden, Professor of Poli…
1 year, 5 months ago
Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
Episode 167
As a novelist, short story author, screenwriter, and Nobel laureate, William Faulkner looms large in modern American literature. Yet the very range o…
1 year, 5 months ago
Donna Tesiero, "A Revolutionary Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Abolition of Slavery in the North" (McFarland, 2024)
Episode 487
At the end of the American Revolution, Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved widow and mother living in Massachusetts. Hearing the words of the new Massa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Episode 141
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studie…
1 year, 5 months ago