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Book Club with Michael Smerconish

Reading for Independent Minds. Unlike many author interviews, if Michael didn"t actually read the book, you won"t hear about it. If he read it, you"ll hear it and you"ll love it. Insights into a wide range of topics, including many titles you"ve probably never heard of. The perfect book is just one listen away.

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00:18:44

John Mearsheimer: "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign...

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/28

From September 2007, Michael's conversation with John Mearsheimer, co-author of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.""The Israel Lobby," by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in

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00:15:47

Jeffrey Selingo: "Who Gets In and Why"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/23

Michael speaks with Jeffrey Selingo, author of "Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions." The award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author's book offers a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search.Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In this book, Selingo

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00:20:10

John Kasich: "Heaven Help Us"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/18

Michael welcomes former Ohio Governor John Kasich, author of "Heaven Help Us: How Faith Communities Inspire Hope, Strengthen Neighborhoods, and Build the Future". In a time of division and cynicism, Kasich shares uplifting stories of faith communities making real change—from churches supporting immigrants to mosques building interfaith bridges. It's a powerful reminder of the hope and strength found in local action and belief. Original air date 18 April 2025. The book was published on 8 April

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00:18:46

Ben Sherwood: "The Survivors Club"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/14

Ben Sherwood's "The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life" was so fascinating to Michael that he had him back on for this interview, 11 years after the book was written. Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do some people bound back and others give up? How can I become the

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00:19:10

Tom Garvey: "The Secret Apartment"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/09

Let’s begin an implausible story with a seemingly simple yet complex question: If you were single, never married with no children or dependents, would you, if you had the opportunity, have lived “on the down low” in a secret apartment in Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia? Tom Garvey did just that - yes he LIVED there - and tells the tale in this incredible story. Original air date 19 March 2021. The book was published on 3 December 2020.

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00:29:16

Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes: "Fight"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/07

Michael talks to Amie Parnes & Jonathan Allen about "Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House." The authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller 'Shattered' provide a revelatory, inside look at the Biden, Harris, and Trump camps during the 2024 battle for the White House, arguably the most consequential contest in American history.The ride was so wild that it forced a sitting president to drop his re-election bid, a once and future president to survive felony convictions and a would-be

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00:06:43

25 Books That Have Moved Michael Smerconish

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/07

Admiral James Stavridis appears on the Book Club Podcast four times. Listen to To Risk It All (Episode #116), 2054 (Episode #354), The Restless Wave (Episode #415), and The Admiral's Bookshelf (#446).

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00:24:54

Benjamin Wallace: "The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/04/02

Michael interviews New York Times bestselling author Benjamin Wallace about his new book, "The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret Genius Behind Crypto." Wallace delves into the enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin, whose identity remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of our time. Wallace traces his investigation across the globe, exploring a variety of suspects and the impact of Nakamoto’s invention—from its idealistic beginnings to its

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00:27:02

Michael Wolff: "All Or Nothing"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/31

Michael welcomes New York Times Bestselling author Michael Wolff with his book "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America." In it, Wolff delivers a breathtaking insider account of the 2024 Trump campaign—undoubtedly the wildest, most unpredictable campaign in U.S. history, including multiple criminal trials, two assassination attempts, and a sudden switch of opponents. 'All or Nothing' takes readers on a journey accompanying Donald Trump on his return to power as only Michael Wolff, the foremost

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00:27:31

Laura Delano: "Unshrunk"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/28

Laura Delano is a writer, speaker, and consultant, and the founder of Inner Compass Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps people make more informed choices about psychiatric diagnoses, drugs, and drug withdrawal. She is a leading voice in the international movement of people who’ve left behind the medicalized, professionalized mental health industry to build something different. Laura works with individuals and families around the world who are seeking guidance and support for the

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00:30:09

Admiral James Stavridis: "The Admiral's Bookshelf"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/26

Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), a leader in international business, national security, and global philanthropy, shares the books that facilitated his success. A guide to living and leading through reading, The Admiral’s Bookshelf links twenty-five essential life lessons and leadership principles to the books that best illustrate them. After speaking with him, Michael is then inspired to reveal his top 25 books as well - listen in! Original air date 26 March 2025. The book was published on 18

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00:15:15

Alex Isenstadt: "Revenge"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/24

Alex Isenstadt is a Senior Political Reporter at Axios. Previously, he was National Political reporter at Politico, where he covered Donald Trump since 2015.

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00:23:45

Jefferson Fisher: "The Next Conversation"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/19

Michael talks to trial lawyer and communication expert Jefferson Fisher about his fascinating new book, "The Next Conversation: Argue Less, Talk More." Its ties to the themes of Michael's work with The Mingle Project are intriguing. Listen to this conversation about the definitive book that will make your next conversation the one that changes everything.No matter who you’re talking to, "The Next Conversation" gives you immediately actionable strategies and phrases that will forever change how you

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00:29:17

Wendy Ruderman & Barbara Laker: "Busted"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/17

"Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love" is the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a Pulitzer Prize. Listen to Michael's conversation with journalists Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker. Original air date 13

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00:36:07

Mark Bowden: "Black Hawk Down"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/14

On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily-armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly wounded.Drawing on

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00:24:08

Alexander Vindman: "The Folly of Realism"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/07

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, six US presidential administrations of both parties pursued policies for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia that emboldened Russia, playing into its imperialist, centuries-long mythos of regional hegemony. The result: military aggression and full-scale invasion. It was all too foreseeable.In The Folly of Realism, leading national security expert and bestselling author Alexander Vindman argues that America’s mistakes in Eastern Europe result from policymakers’

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00:14:36

Vivek Wadhwa: "Your Happiness Was Hacked"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/03/03

Technology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your email or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We’ve become a tribe of tech addicts—and it’s not entirely our fault. Michael talks with Vivek Wadhwa, co-author of "Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning the Battle to Control Your Brain--and How to Fight Back." In the book, learn

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00:16:10

Sherrod Brown: "Desk 88"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/02/12

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In "Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America", he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Listen to his conversation with Michael from 26 November 2019. The book was published on 5 November 2019.

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00:23:21

Yoni Appelbaum: "Stuck"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/02/11

Yoni Appelbaum is a deputy executive editor of The Atlantic and a social and cultural historian of the United States. Before joining The Atlantic, he was a lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University. He previously taught at Babson College and at Brandeis University, where he received his PhD in American history.

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00:26:11

Edward Fishman: "Chokepoints"

Book Club with Michael Smerconish ·

2025/02/05

The epic story of how America turned the world economy into a weapon, upending decades of globalization to take on a new authoritarian axis—Russia, China, and Iran. It used to be that ravaging another country’s economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history

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