March 11th, 2022
This week we interview Paulina Bren, an award-winning writer and Vassar College historian. Her latest book,
The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free is a
New York Times Editor’s Choice.
The Barbizon has received international press coverage and it has been optioned by HBO and
Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke. Foreign rights have been sold to Italy, Spain, Hungary, South America, China, Russia and South Korea. Paulina Bren is a well-known scholar of…
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January 14th, 2022
Happy New Year! This week we interview Gary Ginsberg, author of
The New York Times bestseller,
First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Out Presidents, published by Twelve in July 2021. The book explores nine select American presidents (Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton) and the relationships they had with their best friends. A lawyer by training, Ginsberg worked…
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Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton, biographers, biography, Clinton, First Friends, Gary Ginsberg, Kennedy, Kitty Kelley, podcast, political biography, Thomas Jefferson, writers
October 29th, 2021
In this week’s episode we interview Ty Seidule, author of
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2021. Seidule served in the U.S. Army for thirty-six years, retiring as a brigadier general in 2020. Also, he is a Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, where he taught for two decades. Seidule is a New America Fellow, as well…
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