David speaks with acclaimed suspense author Patricia Cornwell about her latest forensic thriller The Bone Bed. The book features the return of Cornwell’s most-popular character Kay Scarpetta for the 20th book featuring the heroine. Originally a journalist, Cornwell’s interest in crime novels came in 1984 when working for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner […]
Carissa Phelps to chat about her incredible life story as written in her book Runaway Girl. After leaving a turbulent and abusive home life at age 12, Phelps found herself forced into prostitution on the streets of Southern California. After years of living a life consisting of drug use, sexual abuse, and prostitution, Phelps escaped. […]
David chats with former Seal Team 6 member Don Mann. Seal Team 6 is best known as the special operations team that led a strike on Osama Bin Laden in May 2011 that led to the death of the al-Qaeda leader. Mann has recently written a book about his experiences with the Seal team called […]
David is joined by Brooks Jackson, the Director and co-Founder of FactCheck.org, a website that seeks to reduce the level of confusion and deception in U.S. politics. A veteran of CNN, the Associated Press, and the Wall Street Journal, Jackson has been working around Washington and the national politics scene since 1970. In 1992, he […]
David chats with former CIA spy and counterterrorism expert Henry Crumpton about his book The Art Of Intelligence: Lessons From A Life In The CIA’s Clandestine Service. One of the most well-respected former spies of the CIA, Crumpton led the CIA’s global covert operations, including his work with al-Qaeda both pre and post-9/11. Original Air […]
David chats with author David Crist about his new book The Twilight War. This book is a comprehensive examination in the decades long struggle between the United States and Iran. As a historian for the United States government, Crist was given unique access to often classified information outlining the full history of the conflict between […]
New York Times reporter Kevin Sack join David to talk about America’s ever-going struggles with kidney transplants. In his report, Sack found that almost 1/3 of all kidneys destined for transplant end up disposed of for reasons that are often a mystery. In their conversation, David and Kevin discuss possible changes to the kidney transplant […]
David speaks with photographer Lisa Kereszi about her latest work of auto-biographic examination entitled Joe’s Junk Yard. Lisa Kereszi’s grandfather was a first-generation American and boxer-turned-junkman, who built an empire of used cars and scrap metal in Chester, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s boom era, which was gradually eroded by a series of misfortunes. Kereszi’s disquieting, […]
David chats with Robert Lorenz, director of the new film “Trouble With The Curve.” The film, starring Clint Eastwood, is set in Atlanta and follows the story of an aging Atlanta Braves scout whose eyesight is starting to cause him trouble in his job. After years of acting as Producer for Clint Eastwood’s films like […]
David speaks with local author and GA State law professor Anne Emanuel about her new biography Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution. Tuttle is the judge from Atlanta who led the federal court with jurisdiction over most of the Deep South through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights revolution. […]