David explores the life and career of one of baseball’s most impressive and least heralded stars – Satchel Paige. David speaks with journalist and author Larry Tye who has written a new biography ofSatchel Paige. For most of his career, Paige toiled in the obscurity of the Negro Leagues where he racked up statistics unparalleled […]
David speaks with Geraldine Brooks about her work, The People of the Book. In this work Brooks, a former New York Times columnist, creates a fictional narrative around the true life drama of a mysterious missing Hebrew Haggadah pilfered from Sarajevo. The Haggadah is the prayer book used by Jews on Passover to tell the […]
Detroit News reporter Bryce Hoffman joins David to talk about his book American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. As a Detroit insider, Hoffman had perhaps the best look at just how bad times were at Ford Motor Company when Alan Mulally was brought from Boeing as Ford’s new CEO. […]
David speaks with Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate.com, about last week’s arguments before the Supreme Court concerning the contested healthcare bill. Lithwick spent time in the courtroom during the three day of argument in regards to the legality and constitutionality of the Affordable Healthcare Act, a.k.a Obamacare. In what she described […]
David speaks with author R.J. Smith about his new biography, The One: The Life and Music of James Brown. In this book, Smith examines how James Brown went from a poor young man in the deep south living in his aunt’s brothel to the “Hardest Working Man in Show Business.” While this poor upbringing and […]
David speaks with Georgia Military College professor Jeffrey Wells about his new book The Atlanta Ripper: The Unsolved Case of the Gate City’s Most Infamous Murders. Between 1909 and 1915, a serial killer may have stalked the streets of Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, leaving as many as 20 bodies — mostly black women in their […]
David speaks with Rye Barcott about his new book It Happened on the Way to War. This book serves as Barcott’s very personal memoir into a life that found him balancing his humanitarian work in foreign countries with being a soldier serving in Iraq. Rye Barcott is a former Marine Corps captain and cofounder of […]
David speaks with journalist and author Thomas Peele about his book Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism’s Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist. In 2007, Oakland-area journalist Chauncey Bailey was murdered by a nineteen-year-old member of the Black Muslim cult. This cult, run by Yusuf Bey as an offshoot of the […]
David speaks with writer Stephanie Deutsch about her latest book You Need A Schoolhouse: Booker T. Washington, Julius Rosenwald and the Building of Schools for the Segregated South. This book is the the story of an unlikely partnership between a Jewish philanthropist and an African-American educator to provide free education to African-Americans in the segregated […]
David chats with conservationist and television personality Pete Bethune. Perhaps best known for his role on the Emmy-nominated series Whale Wars, Bethune has dedicated his life to conserving the resources of the open seas. On the series Whale Wars, crews follow Bethune as his stops whaling vessels from reaching their destinations by any means possible. […]