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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Part I. Life and Death of Homosexuals under the Nazi Regime Guest: David Fernbach is a freelance writer, editor and translator. His publications and translations include the three-volume edition of Karl Marx’s Political Writings, The Spiral Path: a gay contribution to human survival, and The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of … Continued
Guest: Frank Costigliola is the author of Kennan: A Life between Worlds. He is also a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.
Guest: Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: … Continued
Guest: Joan Biskupic is a journalist, lawyer, and author. She has covered the Supreme Court since 1989. Currently she is CNN’s senior Supreme Court analyst and is the author of several books including biographies on John Roberts, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor. Her latest is Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive … Continued
Guest: Clara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
Guest: Elizabeth Williamson is a feature writer for the New York Times and is the author of Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.
Guest: Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of many books, his latest is A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Photo(c): WikimediaCommons. Euskara: A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922.
Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. She is an expert on the British Romantic era, her books include A Greeting of the Spirit (2022), Romantic Shades and Shadows (2018), and Reading John Keats (2015), as well as annotated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2012), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (2014), and her latest, On Mary Wollstonecraft‘s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
Guest: Beverly Gage is professor of history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, and her latest, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century. G-Man is Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2023 … Continued
