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Booknotes+

Booknotes+


Booknotes+

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Length:
171 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Description

Taking the concept from Brian Lamb's long running Booknotes TV program, the podcast offers listeners more books and authors. Booknotes+ features a mix of new interviews with authors and historians, along with some old favorites from the archives. The platform may be different, but the goal is the same – give listeners the opportunity to learn something new.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 171 episodes

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Ep. 167 Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"

Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor of history at the Uni...

67 minutes
May 21, 2024

Ep. 166 Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"

For over 10 years, Washington Post investigative reporter Craig Whitlock has tracked th...

79 minutes
May 14, 2024

Ep. 165 Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"

Duke Ellington was the grandson of slaves. Louis Armstrong was born in a News Orleans s...

65 minutes
May 07, 2024

Ep. 164 Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"

The book "Fire and Rain" is a narrative, according to author Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, a...

72 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Ep. 163 Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"

Early in his newest of over 30 books, Joseph Epstein, our guest this week, writes: "I f...

65 minutes
Apr 23, 2024

Ep. 162 Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series

Matt Drudge started his website called "The Drudge Report" in 1995. In those early days...

66 minutes
Apr 16, 2024

Ep. 161 Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"

The book is called "The Real Hoosiers". The author is Pennsylvania-based Jack McCallum....

77 minutes
Apr 09, 2024

Ep. 160 Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"

Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was a United States Senator for 23 years. He lived to b...

126 minutes
Apr 02, 2024

Ep. 159 Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"

Andrew Pettegree is a British historian at St. Andrews University in Scotland. His spec...

66 minutes
Mar 26, 2024

Ep. 158 Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"

In Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler's latest book, they open with this introduction: "This is...

70 minutes
Mar 19, 2024