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Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell, "Revenge of the Tipping Point"
Twenty-five years ago, author Malcolm Gladwell published "The Tipping Point," about how ideas and behavior spread in a society to create positive cha…
1 year, 5 months ago
AW: T.J. English, "Los Muchachos,"
Journalist T.J. English spoke about the rise and fall of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine empires in U.S. history. He was intervie…
1 year, 5 months ago
AB: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club
Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim discussed the book club she began in 2015 to celebrate black, brown and indigenous women. She also discussed …
1 year, 5 months ago
BN+: Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men"
A book called "The Wise Men" was first published in 1986. The cover copy says that "it was about six friends and the world they made." The names Harr…
1 year, 5 months ago
Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"
Half Jewish and a member of the Hitler Youth who saw Adolf Hitler in person, Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, author of "My Two Lives," talks about surviving in …
1 year, 5 months ago
BN+: Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People"
According to professor Corey Brettschneider, author of "The Presidents and the People," the following presidents in history threatened democracy: "Jo…
1 year, 6 months ago
Q&A: Peggy Noonan, "A Certain Idea of America"
Peggy Noonan, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal and former speechwriter for President Reagan, discusses her book "A Certai…
1 year, 6 months ago
AW: Stephanie Gorton, "The Icon and the Idealist - Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America"
Stephanie Gorton looked at the lives & rivalry between two key figures in the early movement for birth control & reproductive rights. She was intervi…
1 year, 6 months ago
BN+: Talmage Boston, "How the Best Did It"
Talmage Boston considers himself a full-time lawyer and a full-time historian. His latest book is called "How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons fr…
1 year, 6 months ago
Q&A: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"
Investigative journalist Maureen Callahan talks about the physical and psychological abuse, and worse, that she says was experienced by women and gir…
1 year, 6 months ago