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Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State"

July 07, 2026 3:30am 1:08

Claudia Rowe is the author of "Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care." Rowe has been writing about the hallways and courtrooms, where kids and government clash, for 30 years. "Every person in this b...

Richard Brookhiser, "The Hero Returns"

June 30, 2026 3:30am 1:06

Richard Brookhiser is an American journalist, biographer, historian, and senior editor at National Review. He has appeared on C-SPAN for many years as the author of biographies of America's founders. His latest book feat...

Michael Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet"

June 23, 2026 3:30am 1:09

In July of this year, 2026, the new, multi-million-dollar Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens to the public in Medora, North Dakota, population 121. The senior historian for the T.R. Library is a man named Mich...

David Garrow on Martin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama

June 16, 2026 3:30am 1:07

David J. Garrow is a prize-winning historian. Since graduating from Wesleyan University in 1975 and completing his law degree at Duke in 1981, he has spent most of his time writing about civil rights. His best selling an...

Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory"

June 09, 2026 3:30am 1:02

Dr. Lerone Bennett Jr. was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on October 17, 1928. He spent over 50 years with Johnson Publishing, ultimately became executive editor of its Ebony magazine. Bennett died at age 89 on Februar...

Lois Romano, "An Inconvenient Widow"

June 02, 2026 3:30am 1:08

Lois Romano, formerly of the Washington Post, re-examines the legacy of Mary Todd Lincoln. In the promotion of the book, Simon & Schuster, the publisher, claims that Mrs. Lincoln "was failed at nearly every turn in her w...

Danny Funt, "Everybody Loses"

May 26, 2026 3:00am 1:27

Danny Funt is the author of the book "Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling." In May 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act in a 6-3 de...

Theo Baker, "How to Rule the World"

May 19, 2026 3:30am 1:10

Theo Baker will graduate from Stanford University on June 14th, 2026. About one month prior, his first book, "How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University," is being published by Penguin Press. Pra...

Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"

May 12, 2026 3:30am 1:07

Harvey Mansfield arrived as an undergrad at Harvard in 1949, 77 years ago. He hardly left the university until he retired as research professor in 2023. Professor Mansfield, at age 94, is still writing. Encounter Books h...

Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"

May 05, 2026 3:00am 1:07

During his almost 40-year career in publishing, Bruce Nichols served as publisher of both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Little Brown & Company. His book is titled "The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented ...

Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"

April 28, 2026 3:00am 1:10

Author Craig Fehrman has written a new history of the expedition of Lewis and Clark. It's called "This Vast Enterprise." In the prologue to his 515-page book, Fehrman writes: "After departing from near St. Louis on May 1...

Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"

April 21, 2026 3:00am 1:06

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 different languages. In his latest book, he focuses on Rasputin and the downf...

Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"

April 14, 2026 3:00am 1:01

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 years. Since 2016, Mr. Crawford has had his own podcast called The Roa...

Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo"

April 07, 2026 3:00am 1:05

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 graduating from Oxford University has almost continuously lived in Spai...

Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes"

March 31, 2026 3:00am 1:12

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 recent American history…He is hailed by many as a master in the art of...

Michael Hastings, "The Operators"

March 24, 2026 3:30am 1:03

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. The guest on Q&A, the television program, was 31-year-old Michael Ha...

Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel

March 17, 2026 3:00am 1:18

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 trafficking and murder in the Special Forces. Near the end of his book, Har...

Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"

March 10, 2026 3:00am 1:08

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 Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy." According to Josh Ire...

Richard John Neuhaus, "As I Lay Dying"

March 03, 2026 3:00am 1:02

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 Neuhaus interview received one of the biggest responses of any during ...

David Sirota, "Master Plan"

February 24, 2026 3:00am 1:09

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 to Legalize Corruption in America." There are 11 chapters which reflec...

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