David Sax on The Vanishing Deli
Get ready to get really hungry as you listen to David Sax telling us about great delicatessen food, and the great vanishing Jewish deli! < previous
Norman Stone on WWI
Historian Norman Stone talks with Gary Shapiro about his short history of World War One. < previous
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein on his brilliant Nixonland. < previous
Michael Goldfarb on Jewish Emancipation
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! < previous
Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864
Historian Richard Slotkin brings the story one of the great catastrophes of the Civil War this week as he discusses his book No Quarter. < previous
Timothy Egan’s The Big Burn
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. < previous
Michael Wex
Michael Wex , author of Born To Kvetch, joins Gary Shapiro to discuss his new book How To Be A Mentsh (& Not A Schmuck)! < previous
Denis Kitchen on Kurtzman
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. < previous
Satchel By Larry Tye
Larry Tye has written the definitive biography of the great Satchel Paige, legendary pitcher. We talk baseball on this week’s From the Bookshelf. < previous
Norman Ollestad
Norman Ollestad tells an amazing story of survival on this week’s From The Bookshelf. < previous