Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – July 26, 2012
The life & times of radical journalist John Reed. Guest: Anthony D’Agostino, professor of history at San Francisco State University, author of the book The Rise of Global Powers. This is another part of our series on Radicals at the turn of the 20th Century.
Letters and Politics – July 25, 2012
The life and times of WEB Du Bois with Gerald Horne, professor of African America History at the University of Houston.
Letters and Politics – July 24, 2012
We look at the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs who garnered almost a million votes while running for President, from his jail cell, in 1920. WIth Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – July 23, 2012
Dr Candace Falk, Director of the Emma Goldberg Papers, on the life and times of Emma Goldman.
Letters and Politics – July 20, 2012
Jim Pullen, KGNU reporter, on CO movie theater massacre. Greg Muttit, author of Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq.
Letters and Politics – July 19, 2012
David Vine on the Lilly-Pad military base strategy. Julie Flynn Siler, author of Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure.
Letters and Politics – July 17, 2012
Another in our series of conversations about the changing geo-political landscape in the Middle East and North Africa with Fawaz Gerges, Director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and author of Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment?