Morris Dickstein discusses his new book Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of The Great Depression. It’s not depressing!
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Morris Dickstein discusses his new book Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of The Great Depression. It’s not depressing!
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Donald Spoto returns to discuss his latest book, a biography of Princess Grace: High Society The Life Of Grace Kelly.
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Alanna Nash offers us the female point of view on Elvis Presley in her latest book on the King. Shapiro and nash talk Elvis on this week’s From the Bookshelf!
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Television historian David Bianculli, founder of TV Worth Watching, drops by to discuss his great new book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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Novelist and poet Kate Evans joins Gary Shapiro in the KUSP studio to discuss her second novel, Complementary Colors.
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Get ready to get really hungry as you listen to David Sax telling us about great delicatessen food, and the great vanishing Jewish deli!
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Historian Norman Stone talks with Gary Shapiro about his short history of World War One.
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Michael Goldfarb of NPR joins us to discuss his fine new work Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance. Listen now!
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Historian Richard Slotkin brings the story one of the great catastrophes of the Civil War this week as he discusses his book No Quarter.
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