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If you"re like me, you like to know things but how much time to invest? That"s the question. Here"s the answer: Read Beat--Interviews with authors of new releases. These aren"t book reviews but short (about 25-30 minutes on the average) chats with folks that usually have taken a lot of time to research a topic, enough to write a book about it. Hopefully, there"s a topic or two that interests you. I try to come up with subjects that fascinate me or I need to know more about. Hopefully, listeners will

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26:24

“The Organization of Journalism” by Patrick Ferrucci

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2025/01/16

“It’s a new world when it comes to journalism. That prompted Patrick Ferrucci, the head of the journalism department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, to go out and see how that world has changed.The Organization of Journalism offers a profile of six different business models that now bring folks the news or sports, as the case may be. There’s the St. Louis Beacon, a digital nonprofit, and the Defector, an employee-owned cooperative focusing on sports and culture. The Colorado S...

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23:07

"What Works in Community News" by Dan Kennedy and...

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2024/12/21

You already know about the local news crisis. The proof is probably not in your hands with the demise of so many newspapers. The terms “ghost paper” (a publication with an old masthead and little else) and “news deserts” (areas without local news coverage of any kind) are part of the vernacular these days.Communities have had to be inventive to replace the local news they once took for granted, says Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston and co-author of What...

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24:24

“Jeep Show: A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge” by...

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2024/12/19

It’s been 80 years since the bloodiest battle of World War II, the Battle of the Bulge, a five-week struggle that started during the Christmas season of 1944 that took 19,000 American lives in fighting in the densely wooded Ardennes region of Germany.It was Germany’s last stand, said O’Connor, who drew on considerable research of that battle in Jeep Show, a novel that focuses on the U.S. Army’s troupe of performers who put on small variety acts for combat infantry just behind the front lines....

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22:35

"The Purpose Code" by Jordan Grumet MD

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2024/12/17

Dr. Jordan Grumet is a hospice doctor as well as a podcaster at The Earn & Invest Podcast. He’s also an author whose new book is The Purpose Code, a follow-up Taking Stock: A Hospice Doctor’s Advice on Financial Independence, Building Wealth, and Living a Regret-Free Life, published in 2022.Grumet describes his own battle to find purpose in life, relinquishing a job as a full-time medical doctor in 2014. While he didn’t want to give up being a hospice physician, he got rid of everything e...

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28:59

“The Uncomfortable Truth About Money” by Paul Podolsky

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2024/11/25

Books that seek to help you understand the world of finance probably aren’t viewed as the most engaging of literary categories. Consumers, after all, hold that book in their hands for a specific reason: to understand policy rates better or inflation-linked bonds not for a ripsnorting reading adventure.Paul Podolsky, a former equity partner at Bridgewater Associates and the founder and CIO of Kate Capital, an investment management firm, however, has tried to make his advice on the subject acce...

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37:21

"Most Honorable Son" by Gregg Jones

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2024/11/22

You’re a Japanese American living in Nebraska in 1941. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, sending the United States into war. What do you do?At 24 when war broke out, Nebraskan Ben Kuroki enlisted to fight for his country. Ben joined the Army Air Force along with his brother. In Most Honorable Son by Gregg Jones, Kuroki’s unique wartime experience is related.Ben Kuroki not only flew a staggering 58 combat missions as a gunner on Army Air Force bombers but battled racism and resentment on ...

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33:21

"Carl Barks' Duck" by Peter Schilling Jr.

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2024/11/22

So many images represent Walt Disney. There’s that mouse, of course, and all those movies. There’s so much music, countless cartoons, and aisles of toys Once there were even comic books. Characters like Donald Duck operated across many different media. We know about the cartoons starring an exasperated duck with a funny voice. But there was also an adventure series with Donald, his nephews, and a miserly Uncle Scrooge in comic books created by cartoonist Carl Barks.Barks, who worked for Disne...

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19:27

"Pickleballers" by Ilana Long

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2024/11/21

Pickleball has become the fastest-growing sport in America. Ilana Long, author of Pickleballers, a debut romantic comedy set in Seattle, noted that as many as 50 million individuals are expected to play the sport in 2024.The game, which Long calls multigenerational, serves as the backdrop for a story about a young woman who, on the rebound of a breakup, finds solace and redemption on the pickleball court.Long, who said the sport gave her life during the pandemic, says she's met folks on the p...

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21:26

"Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior" by David Hone

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2024/11/06

Whenever the Jurassic Park/World franchise launches another movie entry, the national media runs to quote “a dinosaur guy” for a professional analysis. One of the guys they call is David Hone, a zoologist at Queen Mary University in London and the author of How Fast Did T.rex Run? and the Tyrannosaur Chronicles.Hone’s latest book, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior (Princeton University Press), seeks to provide answers as to how dinosaurs may have moved, fed, grew, and reproduced.Deducing dinosaur ...

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28:19

"In the Shadow of the Big Top" by Maureen Brunsdale

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2024/10/27

A plaque standing in downtown Bloomington, Ill. pays tribute to that city’s circus heritage:“In the era before movies, television, and the internet, it was the circus that entertained us…For more than 80 years, spanning the 1870s until the 1950s, countless numbers of brave Bloomington men and women risked their lives to entertain massive crowds by performing aerial tricks high up on the flying trapeze.” After two local brothers, Howard and Fred Green installed a trapeze rigging in a Bloo...

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27:49

"Onward to Chicago" by Larry M. McClellan

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2024/10/22

Decades before the Civil War, Illinois meant freedom for those seeking to escape slavery. Larry McClellan’s Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois is his third book exploring the phenomenon known as the Underground Railroad.McClellan, a resident of Crete, Illinois, some 35 miles south of Chicago, served as a professor of sociology at Governors State University, the Chicago school he helped found 54 years ago.“It was neither underground n...

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28:39

Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Fantasy of...

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2024/10/09

The comics page has long been a place for cars and energy. Comic strips like Otto Auto, Toonerville Folks, and Gasoline Alley related a nation that happily motored about in a car-centric world.Daniel Worden, an art professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, relates that history in Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics.“This book analyzes how comics represented this transition to fossil fuels from the late nineteenth century to the present, a transition that s...

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29:33

"The Golden Age of Red" by Doug Villhard

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2024/10/08

Doug Villhard knew that Red Grange might have been the greatest running back in the history of college football. He was also singularly responsible for helping make the National Football League an established professional league. But Villhard said what drew him to write the historical novel, The Golden Age of Red, was Grange’s alliance with C.C. Pyle, the man who became America’s first sports agent.The University of Illinois is the setting as the book takes off with Pyle running the Virginia ...

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26:43

"Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of...

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2024/10/05

It’s a story of World War II but it’s also a story of politics, power, seduction, and intrigue. Did I leave anything out?Pamela Churchill Harriman didn’t as Sonia Purnell’s book, Kingmaker, makes clear. The British biographer and journalist spent five years gathering information on Harriman’s life, including gaining access to a wealth of fresh research, interviews, and newly discovered sources. Harriman, who died in 1997, is well-known as Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law, the 20-year-...

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"When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power of...

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2024/09/13

The 20th century American department store: a palace of consumption where shopping meant something more than simply getting what one needed. Every major city had at least one department store with a name that lives on even in this age of discounters and online buying.New York, of course, was the nation’s business capital, main market and fashion center. Julie Satow tells the story of how women helped develop the department store and fashion in this country even though men owned the build...

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21:40

"Our Nation at Risk" edited by Julian Zelizer and...

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2024/09/05

The overriding message you get after reading the essays collected by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University history professor, and Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University Law School, is that all the voting issues of today (charges of voting fraud, voter suppression, and foreign interference with the vote) have been with us a long time.Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue outlines this country's less-than-illustrious pas...

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"A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men" by Shannon Monaghan

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2024/09/04

By now most of us have heard of some of the daring deeds executed by the special operations teams that worked undercover during WWII. Shannon Monaghan has added to that body of work through her latest release, A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men.Monaghan follows the exploits of four Britishers, David Smiley, Peter Kemp, Billy McLean, and Julian Amery. These four show remarkable courage and resilience as they wend their way through WWII from Albania (where the primary goal was to keep German troo...

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23:01

"Cow Hug Therapy" by Ellie Laks

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2024/08/30

When Ellie Laks found herself communicating with animals early on, she said she didn't think anything of it. But as Laks, continuing with her communications, got older, "people looked at me as though I was crazy," she said.But Laks also rescued and rehabilitated animals. As co-founder of The Gentle Barn, a rescue mission for animals with no other place to go, she celebrated the organization's 25th anniversary this year with the publication of her second book, Cow Hug Therapy. Laks published H...

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Interview with illustrator Chris Sickles

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2024/08/23

Anyone around youngsters knows that among the many benefits is reading children’s books—to your child or to yourself.Children’s literature offers stories and pictures that we all need to enjoy—not just kids. One of the best examples of that is some of the work done by Chris Sickles of the Red Nose Studio in Greenfield, Ind., just a stone’s throw from where Wilbur Wright was born.Sickles, 50, is a freelance illustrator whose credits include the New York Times and Wall Street Journal as well as...

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26:55

"Season of Shattered Dreams" by Eric Vickrey

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2024/08/01

On June 24, 1946, a bus carrying 16 members of the Spokane Indians baseball team careened off a mountain pass in Washington’s Cascade mountains, killing nine players. It remains the deadliest accident in the history of American professional sports.Eric Vickrey’s Season of Shattered Dreams takes us back to that fateful season, providing an account of events leading up to the accident and how individuals coped after such a catastrophic crash.This was the era of postwar baseball. Like other...

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