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Back to SearchSeth Rogovoy, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 16
Seth Rogovoy's latest book for Oxford University Press is called Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison (Oxford University Press, 2024)…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mary Ellen Curtin, "She Changed the Nation: Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black Politics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)
Episode 266
During her keynote speech at the 1976 Democratic Party convention, Barbara Jordan of Texas stood before a rapt audience and reflected on where Americ…
1 year, 7 months ago
Denys Turner, "Dante the Theologian" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Episode 286
An understanding of Dante the theologian as distinct from Dante the poet has been neglected in an appreciation of Dante's work as a whole.
That is th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cornelia M. Spelman, "Solace" (Jackleg Press, 2024)
Episode 265
How do we become the persons we are? Cornelia Maude Spelman's Solace (Jackleg Press, 2024) seeks to answer that question. A portrait of the emotional…
1 year, 7 months ago
Connie DeNave, "The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass" (2023)
Episode 201
In The Image Maker: Shattering Rock and Roll's Glass Ceiling (2023), Connie DeNave shares her experiences in the public relations world during the Br…
1 year, 7 months ago
Peter Worthing, "General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Episode 1499
General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China (Cambridge UP, 2016) is a revisionist study of the career of General He Yingqin, one of th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Karen M. Dunak, "Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life" (NYU Press, 2024)
Episode 104
When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie i…
1 year, 7 months ago
Deborah Parker, "Becoming Belle Da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters" (Villa I Tatti, 2024)
Episode 77
In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters (Harvard University Press, October 2024), Deborah Parker chronicles the …
1 year, 7 months ago
David Tereshchuk, "A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter" (Envelope Books, 2024)
Episode 81
Today I talked to David Tereshchuk about his memoir A Question of Paternity: My Life As an Unaffiliated Reporter (Envelope Books, 2024)
Tereshchuk lea…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sara Glass, "Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir" (Atria, 2024)
Episode 569
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately …
1 year, 7 months ago