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Books and More with William Cooper

We explore books, politics, and everyday life with author William Cooper. Visit him online at will-cooper.com.

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30:53

Nadine Strossen, past President of the American Civil...

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/13

Nadine Strossen, the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law Emerita at New York Law School and past President of the American Civil Liberties Union (1991-2008), is a Senior Fellow with FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education) and a leading expert and frequent speaker/media commentator on constitutional law and civil liberties, who has testified before Congress on multiple occasions. She serves on the advisory boards of the ACLU, Academic Freedom Alliance, Heterodox Academy,

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3:46

W. Ralph Eubanks (Part 3)

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/12

W. Ralph Eubanks’s work focuses on Race, Identity, and the Culture and Literature of the American South. We discuss his new book When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land. For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, it's an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation. Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often

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10:21

W. Ralph Eubanks (Part 2)

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/12

W. Ralph Eubanks’ work focuses on Race, Identity, and the Culture and Literature of the American South. We discuss his new book When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land. For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, it's an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation. Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often

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3:45

W. Ralph Eubanks (Part 1)

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/12

W. Ralph Eubanks’s work focuses on Race, Identity, and the Culture and Literature of the American South. We discuss his new book When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land. For readers of The Sum of Us and South to America, it's an essential new look at the roots of American inequality—and the seeds of its transformation. Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country’s economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often

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20:21

Stephen Pevar, ACLU

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/12

Stephen Pevar was a Senior Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, and was on the National Legal Staff for 45 years. He litigated some 200 federal cases involving constitutional rights. Stephen authored The Rights of Indians and Tribes (Oxford University Press 2024). He has serves as a Lecturer at Law at Yale Law School. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-rights-of-indians-and-tribes-9780190077556?cc=us&lang=en& DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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21:27

Author Richard Danzig

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2026/01/12

Richard A. Danzig, The Author Of The Chance Cormac Legal Thriller Series. https://www.richardadanzigauthor.com/

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18:20

Author Malcom Kempt

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/12

Malcom Kempt worked as a criminal lawyer in the remote Arctic for seventeen years before leaving to write full-time. He now lives on the island of Newfoundland. We discuss his new novel, A Gift Before Dying. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/2312857/malcolm-kempt/

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31:52

Columnist Lynn Schmidt

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/12

Lynn Schmidt is a syndicated columnist and Editorial Board member with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We discuss today's political scene and the book Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy, by Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown. DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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34:17

New York Times Ken Belson

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/05

We discuss Ken's great new bestseller: Every Day Is Sunday: How Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, and Roger Goodell Turned the NFL into a Cultural & Economic Juggernaut.https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ken-belson/every-day-is-sunday/9781538772577/?lens=grand-central-publishing

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30:50

Yale Professor Lauren Benton

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2026/01/05

We discuss Professor Benton's latest book, They Called It Peace, and how it applies to current events--including the recent capture and arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peace

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24:42

Judith Resnik, Yale Law Professor

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/24

Resnik's new book, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” was published by the University of Chicago Press this year.https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo243487113.html

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24:18

Donald L. Horowitz, Duke Law Professor

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/23

Donald L. Horowitz is the James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science Emeritus at Duke University. He holds law degrees from Syracuse and Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. Professor Horowitz is the author of eight books: The Courts and Social Policy (1977), which won the Louis Brownlow Award of the National Academy of Public Administration; The Jurocracy (1977), a book about government lawyers; Coup Theories and Officers’ Motives: Sri Lanka in Comparative

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25:50

Portraitist Robert Shetterly

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/22

We discuss Robert's incredible body of work.https://americanswhotellthetruth.org/about/about-the-artist/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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23:54

Professor Joseph Hoover, Queen Mary University of London

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/20

We discuss his forthcoming book, Living Just Enough for the City.Website: https://joseph-hoover.org/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/drjoehoover.bsky.social or @drjoehoover.bsky.social Substack: https://anothermotelvoice.substack.com/ or @anothermotelvoice Article on gentrification: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00905917231178295 Article on utopian hope, where I discuss utopian urban planning: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17550882251380725 DON'T WORRY, BE

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32:27

Bryan A. Garner

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/17

We discuss Bryan's collaboration with Justice Scalia and his wonderful new book The Etcher: The Life and Art of Oskar Stoessel. https://www.amazon.com/Etcher-Life-Art-Oskar-Stoessel/dp/1567928404

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24:26

Author A.J. Bermudez

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/17

A. J. BERMUDEZ is an award-winning writer and director who divides her time between Los Angeles and New York. Her first book, Stories No One Hopes Are About Them, won the 2022 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a 2023 Lambda Award Finalist. Writing credits include MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE (co-written with director Kyle Hausmann Stokes; starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman), iCON (Grand Prize Winner of the PAGE Award, 2021), NIGHTINGALE (Grand Prize Winner of an

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26:04

Graham Flanagan, Chief Video Correspondent, Business...

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/17

Graham created and oversees Business Insider's award-winning "Boot Camp" series (2018-present), which goes inside the training programs of military branches and law enforcement agencies. Episodes include the United States Secret Service, the United States Border Patrol, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Army, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police aka "Mounties." In 2024, he produced and directed a feature-length documentary "War Ready: Inside Army War

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25:02

Author Philip Holden

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/17

We discuss his new book, Heaven Has Eyes. https://singaporeunbound.org/gaudy-boy/heaven-has-eyes

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27:20

Authors Michael McKinley and Nancy Meritt Bell

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/17

We discuss their new book The Glamour of Evil and their new press BookGo. https://www.bookgo.pub/ DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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22:31

Author Richard A. Stone

Books and More with William Cooper ·

2025/12/14

We discuss his new book Project Mayflower: Building and Sailing a Seventeenth-Century Replica. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Project-Mayflower/Richard-A-Stone/9781493084364 DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY. will-cooper.com

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