Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President

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The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

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The Best Presidential Writing: From 1789 to the Present

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Abraham Lincoln: The American Presidents Series: The 16th President, 1861-1865

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America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I): From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

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Theodore Roosevelt: The American Presidents Series: The 26th President, 1901-1909

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William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913

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We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel

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Grover Cleveland: The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897

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Obama Diaries

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Dreamers and Deceivers: True and Untold Stories of the Heroes and Villains Who Made America

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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

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'The Man in Black' by Oliver Goldsmith: (With a Brief Introduction)

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What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

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Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life

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Beyond the Golden Door: Seeing the American Dream Through an Immigrant's Eyes

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Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953

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A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

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A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father

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Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers

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They Made America Great: 31 Endearing Legacies Worth Heeding Today

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Inside Obama's Brain

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Invisible Man

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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

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Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality

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SUMMARY - Between The World And Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates

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From Superman to Man

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The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House

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Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

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To America

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A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

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Behold a Pale Horse

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

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The Hunger Games

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The Song of Achilles: A Novel

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The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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The Name of the Wind

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The Hate U Give

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The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

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Parable of the Sower

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The Left Hand of Darkness

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The Road

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

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Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity

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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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Generations: The Real Differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future

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Radiolab: Journey Through The Human Body

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The Overstory

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Carlos Lozada Makes the Case for Political Memoirs

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Is The Problem In Israel Rooted in 1967 or 1948?: When I was in Israel a few weeks ago, a number of the Israelis I interviewed marveled at how quickly things had gone back to normal in Israel, Post-Corona. One of those guests, Yonatan Sagiv - the novelist - told me that we’ll know we’re back to normal when Israelis have to resume dealing with their pre-pandemic problems. Well, over these past 10 days, one conflict lit right back up in a tragic way - Israel’s off-again, on-again war with Hamas. So that’s what we’re going to discuss in this episode. Now, I know that this is not the kind of topic we typically cover on this podcast. But it’s an issue I care a lot about, and so I want to use this conversation to try to shed some light to what is a very heated issue. There’s a ton of noise over here in the West about what just happened between Gaza and Israel - plenty of hot takes, with very little discussion about the history and context. There’s nobody better to help us unpack what just

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#1308 American Dialogue with Joseph Ellis: "Indeed, if I read the founders right, their greatest legacy is the recognition that argument itself is the answer." — Joseph J. Ellis We welcome back Professor Joseph Ellis — the eminent historian, author and friend of the Jefferson Hour — to...

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Wajahat Ali On His New Book "Go Back to Where You Came From"

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Dmitry Orlov on The Dirk Pohlmann Show - 31 March 2024: GUEST OVERVIEW: Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer, linguist and writer. He is a truly independent mind and a more and more popular guest of print and internet publications. He has written extensively about collapse in general and specifical...

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#1409 American Sphinx with Joseph Ellis: Joseph Ellis joins us this week in the first of a series of conversations discussing his work as a historian chronicling the Founding Fathers. We begin by discussing his book, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, published in 1996 and...

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Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisible Man": Ellison tells the story of an African-American man who insists on his visibility, agency, and humanity in a country dead-set on not seeing him...

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Ep. 383 - Alex Hollings: Always a wide array of topics when former Marine …

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The C.O.W.S. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Part 1: The C.O.W.S. Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Part 1

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#1387 Leadership During Crisis: Join us for a conversation with Joseph J. Ellis, an American historian whose work focuses on the founders of the United States of America. His books include American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson and Passionate Sage: The Character and...

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Sholem Aleichem

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JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism

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To Be an American

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The Circleville Letters (Part One): "This is your last chance to report him. I know you are a pig and will prove it and shame you out of Ohio. How is your little girl? Will she grow up to be like you?" There are hundreds of cities in the American Midwest just like Circleville, Ohio....

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Eric Adams Has a Message for the Democratic Party: In July, Eric Adams narrowly won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York, making him the odds-on favorite to win in November. And he won the nomination by running directly against the verities of today’s progressives: asserting that the police are the answer, not the problem; that “defund the police” misjudged what communities of color actually want; that Democrats had lost touch with the multiracial working-class voters they claim to represent. Adams won on that message. He won in deep-blue New York City. It’s made him a national figure, and he’s been emphatic on what that means. “I am the face of the new Democratic Party,” he said. And “if the Democratic Party fails to recognize what we did here in New York, they’re going to have a problem in the midterm elections and they’re going to have a problem in the presidential election.” When politicians become national stories, they often release, or rerelease, a book. Adams is no

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New Lessons and Teachings - Learning From The Past for a Better Tomorrow

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#1275 Joseph Ellis: "There's a perfect alignment between Jefferson's own contradictions and the rest of American history." — Joseph J. Ellis Clay speaks with Dr. Joseph J. Ellis, author of more than ten books, including American Sphinx, Passionate Sage, and...

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#1524 Past Present Future with Joseph Ellis: Clay Jenkinson and the historian Joseph Ellis have a wide-ranging conversation beginning with Jefferson’s failing reputation, and ending with both of them sharing their thoughts on the future. They also discuss our recent elections and the need for...

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The C.O.W.S. Suspected Racist James Loewen’s Sundown Towns Part 16: The C.O.W.S. Suspected Racist James Loewen’s Sundown Towns Part 16

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How Washington’s top book critic reads between 2024’s political lines: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carlos Lozada reads political books so that you don’t have to. Here’s what he learned from his close reading of Trump, Biden, Obama and more, and what it reveals about the future of our politics.

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How Washington’s top book critic reads between 2024’s political lines: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carlos Lozada reads political books so that you don’t have to. Here’s what he learned from his close reading of Trump, Biden, Obama and more, and what it reveals about the future of our politics.

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The C. O. W. S. Suspected Racist James Loewen’s Sundown Towns Part 16: The C. O. W. S. Suspected Racist James Loewen’s Sundown Towns Part 16

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Two Acclaimed Writers on the Art of Revising Your Life: Many of the most contentious debates right now center on whether we, as individuals — and as a country — are willing to revise. To revise our understanding of history. To revise the kind of language we use. To revise the nature of our personal, and national, identities. To revise how we act in our everyday relationships. Revision like this is often necessary, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Making fundamental changes to the way we think, speak and act requires the kind of self-scrutiny, discomfort and sacrifice that many of us would rather avoid. There are few public figures who model revision — of one’s work and one’s life — as openly and honestly as Kiese Laymon. Laymon has written the prizewinning memoir “Heavy” as well as essays for The New York Times, ESPN and the Oxford American. His nonfiction tackles sports, popular culture, the politics of literary publishing and, above all, his home state of Mississippi. On every page

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Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy: As we’ve previously discussed, there are a lot of books about democracy filling book store and library shelves right now. Norman Eisen could have written a book in the vein of Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky’s How Democracies Die or David Frum’s Trumpocracy, but chose to go in a different direction. In The Last Palace, he tells the … Continue reading Norman Eisen’s love letter to democracy →

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2/2 The Gagging of America: Award Winning Journalist Ellis Cose:: “The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America” Ellis Cose

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Dear America

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On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield

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On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield

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On Zionism and the Left: A Discussion with Author and Cultural Critic Susie Linfield

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Is Asia’s Golden Age Already Ending?: If you follow international affairs, it often feels like you can't go to a lecture or read an article without being told that the world's economic and military center of gravity is shifting from West to East.