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Gary Shapiro’s From the Bookshelf

Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864

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<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="8obT1PizZT"><a href="https://fromthebookshelf.com/podcast/richard-slotkin-on-the-battle-of-the-crater-1864/">Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://fromthebookshelf.com/podcast/richard-slotkin-on-the-battle-of-the-crater-1864/embed/#?secret=8obT1PizZT" width="500" height="350" title="&#8220;Richard Slotkin on The Battle of the Crater 1864&#8221; &#8212; From the Bookshelf" data-secret="8obT1PizZT" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://fromthebookshelf.com/wordpress/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script>

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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A Day In The Life

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Robert Greenfield, journalist and rock music historian tells a tragic tale of the beautiful people of Swingin’ London and the death of a dream on this week’s From the Bookshelf

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Rachel DeWoskin’s Repeat After Me

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Rachel DeWoskin of Foreign Babes In Beijing has written a wonderful novel that you will soon be thanking me for turning you on to. We discuss Repeat After Me as well as Rachel’s career as the star of a chinese soap opera!

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