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John Ryan, "America's Trial"
Oct 13, 2026
1h 41m 25s
Sam Roberts, "Are They Dead Yet?"
Oct 6, 2026
1h 10m 56s
Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Investigative Reporter
Sep 29, 2026
1h 04m 31s
Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson"
Sep 22, 2026
1h 08m 08s
Jonathan Jordan, "Ike and Winston
Sep 15, 2026
1h 12m 47s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/13/26 |  John Ryan, "America's Trial" | Only nine men have been convicted, through military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, out of roughly 780 total detainees held there for some time since 2002. However, only 15 prisoners are currently housed at Gitmo. One of those is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who allegedly said he was the mastermind of 9/11. Mohammed has spent the last 20 years incarcerated and is said to go on trial in June 2028. John Ryan, founder of Lawdragon, has spent the past decade detailing the day-to-day activities at Guantanamo. His book is "America's Trial: Torture and the 9/11 Case on Guantanamo Bay." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 41m 25s | ||||||
| 10/6/26 |  Sam Roberts, "Are They Dead Yet?" | The name of the book is "Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit." The author, Sam Roberts, is a 50-year veteran of New York journalism. He says in his book: "I've buried 1,600 or so people during my improbable decade writing obituaries for the New York Times." Reporters who do his kind of reporting are called obituarists. Sam Roberts, in his book's prologue, says he "learned more on the job about accuracy, context, and the distinction between cynicism and skepticism than I would have in any journalism school." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 10m 56s | ||||||
| 9/29/26 |  Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Investigative Reporter | On Saturday, August 8, on the front page of the Washington Post was this headline: "Some Vets Went Along with Scams of the G.I. Bill." Leading the team of Post reporters was Craig Whitlock. His co-author was Andrew Ba Tran. The dateline on the story was San Diego. The first paragraph of the story was: "At Blue Star Learning, a vocational school that defrauded taxpayers of $29 million in GI Bill funds, learning was not the point." Craig Whitlock, 28-year Washington Post veteran, was a gust on Booknotes+ in both 2021 and 2024, the first time for his book "The Afghanistan Papers" and the second about his book "Fat Leonard," about a Malaysian man now serving a 15-year prison sentence for defrauding the U.S. Navy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 04m 31s | ||||||
| 9/22/26 |  Andrew Burstein, "Being Thomas Jefferson" | Andrew Burstein recently retired as a professor of history at Louisiana State University. "Being Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History" is his 16th book about the early years of the United States. In the introduction, Prof. Burstein writes: "This book is about extraordinary drama that punctuated the life of a famous man who had an unusual need to control his environment." Andrew Burstein continues, noting that "as much as his creative imagination led to memorable achievements, the capaciousness of his intellect exacted a price. When enticed by nature's mysteries, his eyes were wide open to new possibilities. And when it came to the clash of egos in public venues, he was acutely sensitive to slights." Professor Burstein says Jefferson "was driven for public celebrity." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 08m 08s | ||||||
| 9/15/26 | Jonathan Jordan, "Ike and Winston | Jonathan Jordan devotes 544 pages and 57 chapters of his book "Ike and Winston" to telling the story of the friendship between Dwight David Eisenhower and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. President Eisenhower lived to be 78 and died in 1969. Sir Winston died four years before that, in 1965, at age 90. Author Jonathan Jordan says: "Churchill could have had his pick of friendship, but he wanted Ike's. In the beginning, he courted Ike for what Ike could do for Britain. The Kansan held the trust of men like Franklin Roosevelt and George C. Marshall. This influence gave Ike the power to destroy or create, and Ike had the gambler's nerve to use that power. London needed a friend like that." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 12m 47s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 | historyfounding fathers+3 | Scott Greenberger | Simon & Schuster37 Ink+1 | — | Gouverneur MorrisConstitution+3 | — | 1h 04m 46s | ||
| 9/1/26 | terrorismbiography+3 | Joby Warrick | Washington Post | — | Carlos the JackalJoby Warrick+3 | — | 1h 04m 14s | ||
| 8/25/26 | memoiraging+4 | Paul Taylor | This Is Getting Old: Two Boomers and Their Generation at Dusk | — | Paul Taylormemoir+5 | — | 1h 06m 18s | ||
| 8/18/26 | political historyimpact of books+5 | JD Vance | Hillbilly ElegyProfiles in Courage+2 | — | JD VanceHillbilly Elegy+6 | — | 1h 03m 27s | ||
| 8/11/26 | journalismAmerican history+4 | John A. Jenkins | Summer of '71: Five Months That Changed America | — | John A. JenkinsSummer of '71+6 | — | 1h 09m 52s | ||
| 8/4/26 | journalismAmerican history+3 | John A. Jenkins | Summer of '71: Five Months That Changed America | Washington, DC | John A. JenkinsSummer of '71+6 | — | 59m 39s | ||
| 7/28/26 | World War IINazi Espionage+4 | Christine Kuehn | Family of Spies | HawaiiGermany | Christine KuehnFamily of Spies+7 | — | 1h 06m 06s | ||
| 7/21/26 | Declaration of IndependenceAmerican history+5 | Ted Widmer | Library of AmericaThe Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text | — | Declaration of IndependenceTed Widmer+6 | — | 1h 06m 57s | ||
| 7/14/26 | linguisticsaccents+4 | Valerie Fridland | C-SPANUniversity of Nevada, Reno+3 | — | linguistic scienceaccents+4 | — | 1h 13m 28s | ||
| 7/7/26 | foster carechild welfare+3 | Claudia Rowe | Wards of the State | United States | foster careClaudia Rowe+4 | — | 1h 08m 15s | ||
| 6/30/26 | biographyAmerican history+4 | Richard Brookhiser | National ReviewThe Hero Returns | — | Richard BrookhiserLafayette+6 | — | 1h 06m 58s | ||
| 6/23/26 | Theodore RooseveltTennis+3 | Michael Patrick Cullinane | Dickinson State UniversityTheodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet | Medora, North Dakota | Theodore RooseveltTennis Cabinet+3 | — | 1h 09m 59s | ||
| 6/16/26 | civil rightshistory+4 | David J. Garrow | Wesleyan UniversityDuke+2 | — | David GarrowMartin Luther King Jr.+6 | — | 1h 07m 02s | ||
| 6/9/26 | Lerone Bennett Jr.Abraham Lincoln+4 | Lerone Bennett Jr. | Johnson PublishingEbony+2 | Clarksdale, MississippiChicago | Lerone Bennett Jr.Abraham Lincoln+5 | — | 1h 02m 00s | ||
| 6/2/26 | Mary Todd Lincolnwidowhood+4 | Lois Romano | Washington PostSimon & Schuster | — | Mary Todd LincolnLois Romano+5 | — | 1h 08m 35s | ||
| 5/26/26 | sports gamblingU.S. Supreme Court+3 | Danny Funt | U.S. Supreme CourtEverybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling | — | sports gamblingU.S. Supreme Court+5 | — | 1h 27m 30s | ||
| 5/19/26 | educationpower+3 | Theo Baker | Stanford UniversityPenguin Press+1 | — | Theo BakerStanford University+3 | — | 1h 10m 04s | ||
| 5/12/26 | Harvardconservatism+3 | Harvey Mansfield | HarvardEncounter Books+1 | — | HarvardHarvey Mansfield+5 | — | 1h 07m 56s | ||
| 5/5/26 | publishingAmerican history+3 | Bruce Nichols | Houghton Mifflin HarcourtLittle Brown & Company+1 | — | Bruce NicholsThe Emerson Circle+3 | — | 1h 07m 32s | ||
| 4/28/26 | Lewis and ClarkAmerican history+4 | Craig Fehrman | Corps of DiscoveryThis Vast Enterprise | St. Louis | Lewis and ClarkCraig Fehrman+5 | — | 1h 10m 12s | ||
| 4/21/26 | historyRasputin+4 | Antony Beevor | C-SPANRasputin | Russia | Antony BeevorRasputin+5 | — | 1h 06m 40s | ||
| 4/14/26 | historypolitics+4 | Bob Crawford | Avett BrothersArizona State University+1 | — | Bob CrawfordJohn Quincy Adams+5 | — | 1h 01m 08s | ||
| 4/7/26 | biographySpanish history+4 | Giles Tremlett | El Generalísimo | SpainPlymouth+1 | Giles TremlettEl Generalísimo+6 | — | 1h 05m 10s | ||
| 3/31/26 | diplomacyrealpolitik+3 | Tom Wells | University of California at BerkeleyThe Kissinger Tapes | — | Kissingerdiplomacy+5 | — | 1h 12m 23s | ||
| 3/24/26 | militaryjournalism+3 | Michael Hastings | Rolling StoneJoint Special Operations Command | — | Michael HastingsThe Operators+3 | — | 1h 03m 23s | ||
| 3/17/26 | investigative journalismdrug trafficking+3 | Seth Harp | C-SPANThe Fort Bragg Cartel | Fort BraggFayetteville, North Carolina | Seth HarpFort Bragg+3 | — | 1h 18m 24s | ||
| 3/10/26 | TrotskyStalin+3 | Josh Ireland | C-SPAN | Mexico City | TrotskyStalin+5 | — | 1h 08m 16s | ||
| 3/3/26 | faithmortality+3 | Richard John Neuhaus | As I Lay Dying | — | Richard John NeuhausAs I Lay Dying+4 | — | 1h 02m 28s | ||
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