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Booknotes+
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 sa...
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Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"
Sir Antony Beevor, an historian based in London, has authored 13 books which have sold at least 8.5 million copies and been translated into 35 differe...
Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"
Bob Crawford plays upright bass, bass guitar, and violin with the Grammy nominated Americana band, the Avett Brothers. He's been with the band for 25...
Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo"
Giles Tremlett is a biographer, a narrative historian, and a journalist based in Madrid, Spain. He was born in Plymouth, England, in 1962, but since g...
Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes"
Author and editor Tom Wells opens his 600-page book titled "The Kissinger Tapes" this way: "Henry Kissinger is one of the most polarizing figures in...
Michael Hastings, "The Operators"
As a follow up to the most recent Booknotes+ featuring Seth Harp on his book "The Fort Bragg Cartel," we are replaying an interview from June 12, 2012...
Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel
Seth Harp is a lawyer and an Iraq war veteran and an investigative writer and journalist. His first book, "The Fort Bragg Cartel," is about drug traff...
Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"
London-based writer Josh Ireland is the author of three books and ghostwriter of five others. His latest is titled "The Death of Trotsky: The True Sto...
Richard John Neuhaus, "As I Lay Dying"
On May 26, 2002, our guest on the Booknotes television program was Richard John Neuhaus . His book, "As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning." The...
David Sirota, "Master Plan"
David Sirota, who is based in Denver, Colorado, has some very strong views about money and politics. His book is called "Master Plan: The Hidden Plot...
Elliot Williams, "Five Bullets"
For his book, "Five Bullets," attorney Elliot Williams wrote 95,720 words. On the back of the cover of the book, writer Garrett Graff sums up the stor...
Candace Rondeaux, "Putin's Sledgehammer"
Russian Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, marched toward Moscow starting on June 23, 2023. His forces were advancing north on M4 Highway...
Ep. 257 Carol Hymowitz on 10 Books That Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work
In the December 1, 2025, print edition of the Wall Street Journal, there was this headline on page R25: "These 10 books changed the way Americans thou...
Ep. 256 Jonathan Horn, "The Fate of the Generals"
Jonathan Horn's latest book is titled "The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines." The publisher Scribn...
Ep. 255 Anne Marshall, "Cassius Marcellus Clay"
Anne Marshall is associate professor of history and executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library at Mississippi State University. H...
Ep. 253 Ben Freeman, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine"
"The Trillion Dollar War Machine" is the name of the book. The co-authors are William Hartung and Ben Freeman. They both do work for the Quincy Instit...
Ep. 252 John Ferling, "Shots Heard Round the World"
After 15 books on Revolutionary America, John Ferling still has more to say about the early period in the life of the United States. Ferling is profes...
Ep. 251 Frank McCourt on Angela’s Ashes: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Memoir
Irish American writer Frank McCourt wrote a book in 1996 that was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 100 weeks. Over the next 20 years, "A...
Ep.250 Peter Gomes, "The Good Book"
This week's encore interview is from September 21, 1997. Twenty-eight years ago. Our guest was Peter J. Gomes, former minister of the Memorial Church...
Ep. 249 Alexandra Churchill, "Ring of Fire"
British historian Alexandra Churchill is no relation to the former prime minister. However, her new book is the history of the world at war in 1914, t...
Ep. 248 Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"
Most of the names are familiar to those who follow politics and government. Hunter Biden, Rudolph Giuliani, Tony Podesta, Paul Manafort, and many othe...
Ep. 247 Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"
Boston-based writer Doug Most's new book is called "Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War." Most, who spent 15...
Ep. 246 Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story
Yale constitutional law professor Akhil Reed Amar's second book in a trilogy is titled "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920." In Pr...
Ep. 245 Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"
Kenneth Feinberg is a Washington-based attorney who served as a special master of the US government's 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Mr. Feinberg wor...
Ep. 244 William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"
William Arthur Galston has been a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution since 2006 and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal for the past 12...
Ep. 243 Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency
Retired George Mason University history professor, Peter Henriques, starts off his author's note writing: "If anyone had told me in the summer of 2023...
Ep. 242 Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life
In September 1975, 17 days apart, two women, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The fir...
Ep. 241 Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
The book is called "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future." Author Dan Wang (WONG) was born in China in 1992. His parents moved to Canada wh...
Ep. 240 Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s
The names are almost all known nationally: Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, David Dinkins, Al Sharpton, Larry Kramer, and Donald Trump. These are people who we...
Ep. 239 Philip & William Taubman, "McNamara at War"
Philip Taubman and his brother William have written what the publisher Norton is calling "McNamara at War: A New History." It's a full life biography...
Ep. 238 Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"
Daniel Flynn's book is titled, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer." Mr. Flynn points out in his introduction that...
Ep. 237 Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century
In our last podcast, Ed Luce of the Financial Times told us about his book, "Zbig," for Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) who he calls America's great p...
Ep. 236 Edward Luce, "Zbig" - Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy
"I was initially very skeptical about embarking on a full life biography of anyone, let alone a figure as big as Zbig."Edward Luce is talking about Pr...
Ep. 235 Simon Ball, "Death to Order"
Simon Ball is the author of the book "Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination." Professor Ball is British and is located at the University o...
Ep. 234 Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"
Author Sam Tanenhaus opens the acknowledgement section in his latest book, "Buckley," this way: "I first met William F. Buckley in 1990, shortly after...
Ep. 233 Jay Winik, "1861"
Historian Jay Winik first appeared on the Booknotes television program 24 years ago to discuss his book, "April 1865." It became a #1 New York Times b...
Ep. 232 Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
Sir Richard J. Evans has been writing about Germany and Adolf Hitler for his entire professional life. He was knighted in Britain in 2012 for his serv...
Ep. 231 David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"
In our earlier discussion with Zaakir Tameez about his biography of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, he discussed his differences with Profess...
Ep. 230 Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"
Charles Sumner was from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a U.S. Senator for 23 years from 1851 to 1874. Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, was brutally...
Ep. 229 John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"
The patriarch, C.F. Seabrook, was hailed as the Henry Ford of agriculture. His son, Jack, a keen businessman, was poised to take over what Life magazi...
Ep. 228 Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"
In a word, Evan Osnos' latest book focuses on the subject of money. His book is titled "The Haves and the Have Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultra-Rich."...