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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Ernest Freeberg is a distinguished professor of humanities and head of the history department at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of three award-winning books, including The Age of Edison. His latest, A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement.
Part I – Protecting the Right to Organize Act Guest: Sylvia Allegretto is a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley (CWED). CWED is a research center housed at the Institute for Researcher on Labor and Employment. Part II – A New Biden’s Presidency on Foreign … Continued
Guest: Bruce Levine is the bestselling author of four books on the Civil War era, including The Fall of the House of Dixie and Confederate Emancipation, which received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and was named one of the top ten works of nonfiction of its year by The Washington Post. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois.
Guest: Adam Jentleson is the Executive Director of Battle Born Collective and a former deputy chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid. He is a columnist for GQ and the author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. Featured photo: Harold Mendoza via Unsplash
Part 1 – The American Recovery Act Guest: Robert Kuttner is the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of several books including his latest, The Stakes 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy. Part 2 – The Rise and Fall of Soul City Guest: Thomas Healy is a professor … Continued
Guest: Lyndall Gordon is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a senior research fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and an award-winning biographer. She is the author of several books including Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World.
Guest: Eric Rauchway is a distinguished historian and expert on the Progressive and New Deal eras at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of several acclaimed books on the subject, including The Money Makers, The Great Depression and the New Deal, and his latest, Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the … Continued
Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He currently is authoring the Prospect Magazine special series First 100: An In-Depth Look at President Biden and the New Administration. David Dayen is the author of Monopolized: Life in an Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize for … Continued
Guest: Ioan Grillo is a journalist and author specializing in crime and drugs. He is the author of the books Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields and the New Politics of Latin America, El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, and his latest, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
Guest: Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and freelance journalist covering the Middle East for more than 35 years. He is an adjunct professor in International Studies at the University of San Francisco. Image: Matthew Bruch Credit: U.S. Air Forces Central Command Copyright: Public Domain
