Guest: Stephen Kinzer, author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allan Dulles and their Secret World War.
Letters & Politics US History Collection
Mitch Jesserich curates a collection of his in-depth interviews on US History
Guest: Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, now Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University and author of the book Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.
Guest: Greg Grandin is professor of history at Yale University. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction in 2020 for his book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. He has also republished his book from 2006 Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and … Continued
Guest: Eduardo Lopez, co-director of the documentary film Harvest of Empire.
Guest: Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. She is the author of several books, including Undocumented, They Take Our Jobs!, and most recently, Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
Guest: Dana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America. Her latest is The Long Honduran Night.
Guest: Grace Livingstone, author of America’s Backyard: The United States and Latin America from the Monroe Doctrine to the War on Terror
Guest: Doug J. Swanson is a veteran reporter and editor, he spent much of his carrier at the Dallas Morning News. Currently he is a research assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Cult Of Glory: The Bold And Brutal History Of The Texas Rangers.
Guest: Dr. Jeremy Brown is an emergency physician and the author of Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History. He is the director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. He has a recent piece in the Atlantic called The Coronavirus Is No 1918 Pandemic.
Guest: Marilyn Chase, a journalist and teacher, and the author of The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. She covers medical science and health care focusing on infectious-disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. She is the author of the book The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco. Her latest book is … Continued