American Purpose's Bookstack
The books and ideas podcast from American Purpose.
We found 10 episodes of American Purpose's Bookstack with the tag “books”.
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Episode 52: Simms and Laderman on Hitler's American Gamble
January 28th, 2022 | 32 mins 46 secs
books, history, politics
What drove Hitler to declare war on the United States after Pearl Harbor, and what, if anything, can that fateful decision to kick off a truly world war tell us about today’s dangerous moment? Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman join host Richard Aldous to discuss their new book, Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War.
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Episode 51: Bruce Ragsdale on Washington and slavery
January 21st, 2022 | 27 mins 42 secs
books, history, politics
George Washington was a farmer, first and foremost. Bruce A. Ragsdale joins host Richard Aldous this week to talk about what new perspectives this underexamined fact sheds on Washington as a leader, the early republic, and the role of slavery in American society.
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Episode 50: Roosevelt Montas on the Great Books' enduring value
January 14th, 2022 | 35 mins 50 secs
books, history, politics
Why study the Great Books? The question is not only out of favor these days, it is rarely even asked any more. Roosevelt Montas joins host Richard Aldous for our fiftieth episode to offer a spirited defense of the tradition, and to talk about his new book, Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter For a New Generation.
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Episode 49: Joseph Horowitz on Black classical music
January 7th, 2022 | 32 mins 20 secs
books, history, politics
Happy New Year! Why did classical music in America become and stay white? And what could be done to change that? Joseph Horowitz joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book, Dvorak’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music.
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Episode 48: Jason Riley on Thomas Sowell
December 17th, 2021 | 31 mins 26 secs
books, history, politics
Is intellectual integrity in today’s academia possible? Jason L. Riley joins host Richard Aldous to talk about his new book on Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers.
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Episode 47: Brendan Borrell on the race to the vaccine
December 10th, 2021 | 25 mins 51 secs
books, history, politics
As another COVID winter looms, Brendan Borrell joins host Richard Aldous to discuss his new book The First Shots, about the epic, and inspiring scientific and bureaucratic race to find a vaccine and save the world.
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Episode 46: Olivia Williams on the Savoy's glamorous tales
December 3rd, 2021 | 29 mins 48 secs
books, history, politics
The origins of the luxury hotel and of modern theater, the start of Gilbert and Sullivan’s career, the roots of Oscar Wilde celebrity—Olivia Williams joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World’s Most Famous Hotel.
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Episode 45: Bruce Jones on naval supremacy and today’s geopolitics
November 19th, 2021 | 29 mins 16 secs
books, history, politics
Alfred Thayer Mahan would feel right at home in today’s geopolitical landscape: all of the great struggles of our time are playing out atop, within, and below the world’s oceans. Bruce Jones joins host Richard Aldous this week to discuss what the struggle for global supremacy might look like, as outlined in his new book, To Rule the Waves.
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Episode 44: Fiona Hill on political dysfunction
November 12th, 2021 | 37 mins 59 secs
books, history, politics
What’s it really like working for Donald Trump? Fiona Hill joins host Richard Aldous to talk about her new book, There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century, her harrowing time at the White House, growing up poor in England, and the roots of our current political dysfunction.
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Episode 43: Sarotte on the post-Cold War stalemate
November 9th, 2021 | 31 mins 55 secs
books, history, politics
Just because no history is completely determined by one decision does not mean that NATO expansion in the 1990s could not have been handled better. Mary Sarotte, the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Distinguished Professor of Historical Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS joins host Richard Aldous to discuss her new book, Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate.