From the Bookshelf

GARY SHAPIRO’S FROM THE BOOKSHELF

From the Bookshelf is produced with support from radio station KSQD in Santa Cruz California.  Host Gary Shapiro brings you interviews with best selling authors of fiction and nonfiction, graphic novelists, actors, photographers, and singer-songwriters discussing their works.  Visit us on Facebook! Your comments are welcome. Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com.

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  • Rick Perlstein

    Rick Perlstein
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    Rick Perlstein on his brilliant Nixonland.

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  • Michael Goldfarb on Jewish Emancipation

    Michael Goldfarb on Jewish Emancipation
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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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  • Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864

    Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864
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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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  • Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn

    Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn
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    Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn
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    Pulitzer and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan is this week’s guest. His latest book is The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America.

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  • Michael Wex

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    Michael Wex , author of Born To Kvetch, joins Gary Shapiro to discuss his new book How To Be A Mentsh (& Not A Schmuck)!

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  • Denis Kitchen on Kurtzman

    Denis Kitchen on Kurtzman
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    I am Mad about this beautiful book of The Art Of Harvey Kurtzman. Editor Denis Kitchen discusses the life and work of the comic genius.

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  • Satchel By Larry Tye

    Satchel By Larry Tye
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    Larry Tye has written the definitive biography of the great Satchel Paige, legendary pitcher. We talk baseball on this week’s From the Bookshelf.

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  • Norman Ollestad

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    Norman Ollestad tells an amazing story of survival on this week’s From The Bookshelf.

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  • The Beatles are Back

    The Beatles are Back
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    The Beatles are back with newly re-mastered versions of their albums, so we asked Philip Norman back to talk about The Beatles some more. Philip Norman is the author of Shout! and John Lennon The Life, so he knows a lot about the Fab Four.

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  • Cornelius Vanderbilt and his Times

    Cornelius Vanderbilt and his Times
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    T. J. Stiles has written a brilliant history of the 19th century in the form of a biography of tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. We discuss how he did it on this week’s From the Bookshelf.

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