Best Alexis Grant Podcasts (2024)

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Can a Cocktail of Vaccinations Cause This? The Truth About Alexis and her Condition 34:10

8m ago34:10

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Alexis Lorenze is hospitalized at a medical center in California. Alexis is blaming a cocktail of vaccinations for her bizarre condition. She has swelling everywhere, she is black and blue and now growing odd tumors on her face. She claims the doctors are asking her not to record videos anymore and it appears Instagram is banning the use of her nam…

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Both Kamala and Biden Just Exposed the Plot to Repeal the 2nd 1:00:39

2h ago1:00:39

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The "War on Guns" is still very real. In unison, both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden attacked gun owners and their right to keep and bear arms. Kamala claims she is a gun owner, yet no one can tell us what type of gun she owns. I will prove why Kamala is lying about it. Plus the real deal behind the NY Mayor Eric Adams indictment. Is it a diversion to…

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Tech to a Construction Acquisition with The Stone Man 36:18

35m ago36:18

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In this episode of the M&A Launchpad Podcast, hosts Casey Minshew and Feras Moussa interview Alan Lockridge about his journey from tech consulting to purchasing and running 'The Stoneman,' a business specializing in hardscapes. The discussion covers Alan's three-year search for the right business, which was affected by COVID-19, and his eventual ac…

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The Floor Season 2 episode 1 Recap with Claire Murchison 38:19

1d ago38:19

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In this episode, Heidi and Brad welcome Claire Murchison from Fox's "The Floor" Season 1 to explore the thrilling new season. They dive into the details of Episode 1, discussing contestant preparations and offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the show. The conversation covers the revamped format and the diverse categories that challenge players,…

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Andrew W. Kahrl, "The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 59:03

2h ago59:03

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In The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U Chicago Press, 2024), Andrew W. Kahrl uncovers the history of inequitable and predatory tax laws in the United States. He examines the structural traps within America’s tax system that have forced Black Americans to pay more for less despite being taxpayers with few…

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William H. F. Altman, "Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic" (Lexington, 2012) 1:39:30

22m ago1:39:30

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In Plato the Teacher: The Crisis of the Republic (Lexington, 2012), William Altman shines a light on the pedagogical technique of the playful Plato, especially his ability to create living discourses that directly address the student. Reviving an ancient concern with reconstructing the order in which Plato intended his dialogues to be taught as opp…

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Jane Little Botkin, "The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen" (She Writes Press, 2024) 39:41

14m ago39:41

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Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty”—just as the 1970’s counterculture movement began to take off. A pink, rose-covered gown—a Guyrex cr…

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Kamala is a Wolf... Arresting Mother's with Sick Daughters! 1:01:16

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As Attorney General of California, Harris led a crackdown on school attendance, making it a criminal misdemeanor - punishable by up to a year in jail - for parents whose children missed at least 10 percent of school days. In "Arrested by Kamala: A Black Mother's Story," Cheree Peoples tells the story of how she spent two years on trial for having a…

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Francis Stevens, "The Heads of Cerberus and Other Stories" (MIT Press, 2024) 40:43

1h ago40:43

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When three people in Philadelphia inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel universes, they are transported into an interdimensional no-man's-land that is populated by supernatural beings. From there, they go on to an alternate-future version of Philadelphia—a frightening dystopian nation-state in which citizens are numbered,…

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Wayne A. Wiegand, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (UP of Mississippi, 2024) 29:26

1h ago29:26

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Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism. Despite this work, the library community has often overlooked—even ignored—its own history of White supremacy and deliberate inaction on the part of White librarians and library leader…

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Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy, "An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O'Dwyer" (Cornell UP, 2024) 50:36

36m ago50:36

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In the city of New York from the 1930s to the 1990s, Irish attorney Paul O’Dwyer was a fierce and enduring presence in courtrooms, on picket lines, and in contests for elected office. He was forever the advocate of the downtrodden and marginalized, fighting not only for Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland but for workers, radicals, Jews, and Africa…

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Jack Palmer, "Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023) 1:20:58

36m ago1:20:58

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Jack Palmer’s Zygmunt Bauman and the West: A Sociology of Intellectual Exile (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) invites us to reconsider a figure who sociology thought it knew well. Presenting Bauman as occupying an ‘exilic’ position as ‘in, but not of, the West’ Palmer presents a number of paths through Bauman’s sociology which speak to conte…

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Sarah Lewis, "The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America" (Harvard UP, 2024) 45:23

1h ago45:23

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In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There was a time when Americans were confronted with the fictions shoring up the nation’s racial regime and learned to disregard them. The true significance of this hidden history has gone unseen—until now. The surprising catalyst o…

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Caree A. Banton, "More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic" (Cambridge UP, 2019) 1:26:08

1h ago1:26:08

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Caree A. Banton's book More Auspicious Shores: Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic (Cambridge UP, 2019) chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means…

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Tom Navon, "Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust: Otto Heller (1897–1945)" (SUNY Press, 2024) 1:03:59

3d ago1:03:59

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This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocaust. This confrontation is examined through the biography of the German-speaking intellectual and prominent communist theoretician of the Jewish question…

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David Kroening Seitz, "A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine" (U Nebraska Press, 2023) 59:20

7d ago59:20

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A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation. The crew was led by a reluctant Black American commander and an extraterrestrial first officer who had until recently been an anticolonial revolutionary.…

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Sourcing to Closing an E-Commerce Acquisition in 9 Days with Bryan Dunn 43:35

8d ago43:35

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In this episode of the M&A Launchpad Podcast, hosts Feras Moussa and Casey Minshew welcome special guest Bryan Dunn. Bryan talks about his journey from helicopter pilot in the military, to working at Boeing and other companies, and now working at a manufacturing company while simultaneously buying his own business. Bryan currently owns an ecommerce…

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New Maps are In! President Trump is Poised for Victory but What About the Cheating? 36:45

3h ago36:45

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Two new Electoral College maps are in and they both have President Trump winning big. Nate Silver and Real Clear Politics are predicting overwhelming wins for Donald Trump. The prediction shows him picking up nearly every swing state. But what about the cheating? Are we ready for November? We break it down. Also Iran has ties to the 2nd alleged ass…

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024) 55:07

1h ago55:07

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We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today…

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Jack Margolin, "The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army" (Reaktion Books, 2024) 52:59

40m ago52:59

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The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army (Reaktion, 2024) exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Using extensive leaks, first-hand accounts, and the byzantine paper trail left in its wake, Jack Margolin traces the…

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs, "Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde" (FSG, 2024) 55:07

40m ago55:07

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We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde's teachings on "the creative power of difference" may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today…

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Survivor 44's Frannie 1:01:24

43m ago1:01:24

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In this exciting episode of Reality Check with Heidi and Brad, the hosts sit down with Frannie from Survivor 44. The conversation kicks off with some playful banter about organ farming and buying Frannie’s kidney, setting a humorous tone for the episode. As the discussion progresses, Frannie opens up about her Survivor journey and her relationship …

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William H. F. Altman, "The German Stranger: Leo Strauss and National Socialism" (Lexington Books, 2010) 2:12:04

1h ago2:12:04

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Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish emigrant to the United States, an author, professor and political philosopher. Born in 1899 in Kirchhain in the Kingdom of Prussia to an observant Jewish family, Strauss received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1921, and began his scholarly work in the 1920s, as well as participating in the German Zio…

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Thank you Pres. Trump for my New Take On Tariffs! 49:24

13h ago49:24

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President Trump made news during his town hall with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Charge Mexico 200% tariffs and China 100% unless they want to build and manufacture goods in the United States. I now openly embrace tariffs because President Trump has helped me come to the realization you can't have Free Trade, with out Fair Trade. Other Topics discu…

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Will Grant, "Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 57:14

2h ago57:14

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Today I talked to Will Grant about his book Populista: The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman (Bloomsbury, 2021). or more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the politics of Latin America. His towering political influence still looms over the region today. The swing to the Left in Latin America, known as the 'Pink…

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X in Texas... How Elon and the Texas AG Can Secure a Trump Victory Nationwide 1:09:43

8d ago1:09:43

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Now that X, formerly known as Twitter, is officially located in Texas. The Texas State government can give Elon Musk the political cover he needs to expose the censorship and election engineering that Old Twitter orchestrated across all social media platforms. There is wide spread belief that the man central to the censorship and attack on conserva…

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Philip Freeman, "Julian: Rome's Last Pagan Emperor" (Yale UP, 2023) 41:32

3d ago41:32

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Today I talked to Philip Freeman about his new book Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor (Yale UP, 2023). Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that time he turned the world upside down. Although a nephew of Constantine the Great, the first Christian empero…

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Michael L. Walker, "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail" (Oxford UP, 2022) 37:09

1h ago37:09

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Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail-especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, detention centers,…

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Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:38:18

4d ago1:38:18

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Paul Robeson's Voices (Oxford UP, 2023) is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concer…

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Grant Olwage, "Paul Robeson's Voices" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:38:18

18m ago1:38:18

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Paul Robeson's Voices (Oxford UP, 2023) is a meditation on Robeson's singing, a study of the artist's life in song. Music historian Grant Olwage examines Robeson's voice as it exists in two broad and intersecting domains: as sound object and sounding gesture, specifically how it was fashioned in the contexts of singing practices, in recital, concer…

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Haitian Migrants Aren't Just Eating the Pets, They are Murdering People in Springfield Too! 56:17

16h ago56:17

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It takes a meme of President Trump to get the main stream media to talk about the small Ohio town of Springfield that is being over run with Haitian migrants. It appears the reports of Haitians killing and eating ducks, cats and dogs are true. But even worse are the reports of migrants killing American citizens in that town. Here first hand account…

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Private Equity to Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition with Niklas James 35:41

14d ago35:41

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In this episode of the M&A Launchpad Podcast, hosts Feras Moussa and Casey Minshew welcome special guest Niklas James, who shares his journey from Norway to the U.S., where he began his career at Bain & Co., gaining valuable experience in the private equity due diligence process. After several years in finance, Niklas pursued his MBA at Harvard Bus…

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Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024) 50:15

1d ago50:15

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Macau was supposed to be a sleepy post for John Reeves, the British consul for the Portuguese colony on China’s southern coast. He arrived, alone, in June 1941, his wife and daughter left behind in China. Seven months later, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, invaded Hong Kong, and made Reeves the last remaining British diplomat for hundreds of miles, …

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Matthew C. Ehrlich, "The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine" (U Illinois Press, 2024) 44:34

2d ago44:34

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The brainchild of an obscure Yugoslav physician, Krebiozen emerged in 1951 as an alleged cancer treatment. Andrew Ivy, a University of Illinois vice president and a famed physiologist dubbed “the conscience of U.S. science,” wholeheartedly embraced Krebiozen. Ivy’s impeccable credentials and reputation made the treatment seem like another midcentur…

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After Long Break, Congress Cries Wolf... Do Your Job Pass a Budget NOT a Band Aid! 56:48

4d ago56:48

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Once again we have a looming government shut down. This, after Congress takes a 6 week vacation. The United States Congress has not passed a traditional budget since 1997. Now we will be told that the world will end if the latest "Band Aid" continuing resolution isn't pushed through. Congress must do it's job. Plus, don't believe Republicans when t…

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Yaacob Dweck, "Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas" (Princeton UP, 2019) 54:07

5d ago54:07

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In 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand. As Jews everywhere rejected the traditional laws of Judaism in favor of new norms established by Sabbetai Zevi, and abandoned reason for the ecstasy of messianic enthusiasm, one ma…

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Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023) 44:02

6d ago44:02

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If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fau…

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The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson 1:08:39

6d ago1:08:39

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In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Knopf, 2010). The book won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, In 1994, Wilkerson was the New York Times Chicago Bureau Chief when she won t…

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Sara E. Johnson, "Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2023) 44:02

21d ago44:02

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If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the social, political, and intellectual fau…

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Tom Boniface-Webb, "Modern Music Masters: Oasis" (MMM, 2020) 1:12:06

6d ago1:12:06

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In the first book in the Modern Music Masters series, Tom Boniface-Webb examines the Manchester band Modern Music Masters-Oasis (MMM, 2020). Founded in 1994 and playing together until their spectacular and abrupt breakup in 2009, during their time together Oasis made an imprint on British music that will last for generations, impacting fans through…

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Mark Blake, "Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac" (Pegasus Books, 2024) 54:22

7d ago54:22

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An illuminating deep-dive into everything Fleetwood Mac--the songs, the rivalries, the successes, and the failures—Dreams: The Many Lives of Fleetwood Mac (Pegasus Books, 2024) evokes the band's entire musical catalog as well as the complex human drama at the heart of the Fleetwood Mac story. Fleetwood Mac has had a ground-breaking career spanning …

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James M. Scott, "Black Snow: Curtis Lemay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb" (Norton, 2024) 57:29

7d ago57:29

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In our interview about Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022), James M. Scott discusses the principles and personalities involved in the most destructive air attack in history. Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies…

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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018) 1:00:29

7d ago1:00:29

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The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France (Duke UP, 2018), Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin’s home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics…

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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France" (Duke UP, 2018) 1:00:29

7d ago1:00:29

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The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” In Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France (Duke UP, 2018), Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin’s home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics…

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Putin Loves Kamala's Radicalism and Weakness... Plus, How to Discredit a Harris Supporter 51:51

9d ago51:51

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Russia's leader just dropped the ultimate troll of Kamala Harris. Vladimir Putin just endorsed the current Vice-President, claiming her engaging laugh is "infectious." We call it a cackle, but what is Putin up too? Also, if your looking for the definitive guide as to how to argue with a Harris supporter this is it. The best way is to use her own wo…

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Hunter Biden is Another Victim of Joe's Greed... The Phony Trial Starts Now 45:34

10d ago45:34

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Make no mistake, Hunter Biden played a huge role in the Biden Crime Family. But it is clear to me that Joe Biden exploited Hunter's weakness, idiocy and drug addiction. Now Hunter's tax evasion trial gets underway and the question is, will the Dept. of Justice cover for Joe and go easy on Hunter. The answer is most certainly yes. If they don't, The…

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The Shift is Upon Us, as the Great Awakening is Underway 34:12

11d ago34:12

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Many of the media and establishment elitists who pushed the vaccine on all of us are changing their tune in a big way. Reality has set in. There us a reason why so many medical professionals are declaring the COVID vaccines as not only dangerous but ineffective. Another study is out that is showing the poplular weight loss drugs lowered COVID death…

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Jonathan Butler, "Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York" (Fordham UP, 2024) 45:17

10d ago45:17

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In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York (Fordham University Press, 2024) transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and dissent in American history: the late 1960s. Against the backdrop of the Vietnam W…

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Andy Clarno et al., "Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago" (U Minnesota Press, 2024) 1:18:38

10d ago1:18:38

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Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to police the poor and suppress struggles for social justice. Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) examines the role of local law enforcement, federa…

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Kostas Kampourakis, "Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 44:41

10d ago44:41

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Many historical ﬁgures have their lives and works shrouded in myth, both in life and long after their deaths. Charles Darwin (1809–82) is no exception to this phenomenon and his hero-worship has become an accepted narrative. Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods (Cambridge UP, 2024) unpacks this narrative to rehumanize Darwin's s…

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