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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
With Chris Jennings, an author who grew up in New York City. He graduated from Deep Springs College and Wesleyan University. He lives in Northern California with his dog. His most recent book is Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism. About the book: By any measure, Ann Lee, the illiterate daughter of a Manchester blacksmith, led one … Continued
With Jonathan F. P. Rose, a nationally renowned city planner, whose investment, development and urban planning firm, The Jonathan Rose Companies, has received rewards from the Urban Land Institute, American Institute of Architects, American Planning Association, and many others. About the book: Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of … Continued
With Kevin M. Kruse, professor of History at Princeton University in New Jersey. He is the author or co-editor of several books, his latest is One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. About the book: One Nation Under God tells the story of how in the middle of the 20th century, corporate titans and … Continued
With Karen Armstrong, OBE, FRSL, a former Roman Catholic nun and British commentator and author known for her numerous books on comparative religion. Her latest is Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence. About the book: While many historians have looked at violence in connection with particular religious manifestations (jihad in Islam or Christianity’s … Continued
In this episode of Letters and Politics we hear recordings from a film on the life and works of Karl Marx, entitled “What if Marx Was Right?,” part of a six-part series on the history of capitalism, Capitalism, by filmmaker Ilan Ziv. this episode questions whether history has “gotten Marx wrong” by focusing on The Communist Manifesto … Continued
With Reese Erlich, author and journalist. He writes regularly for CBS Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corp., and National Public Radio. He is foreign correspondent for Global Post and contributes to VICE News. Erlich has won numerous journalism awards including a Peabody awards. His latest book is Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What … Continued
With Gerald Russell, former British and United Nations diplomat, who spent 14 years representing Britain in the Middle East. His book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East is featured as part of the Letters and Politics Religion Pack Interviews offered on the current KPFA fund drive. Other interviews featured on … Continued
With Arlie Russell Hochschild author of the book Strangers in Their Own Land Anger and Mourning on the American Right. About the book: In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative … Continued
With Robert Warrior, professor of American Studies and English at the University of Kansas. Warrior is co-author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee with Paul Chaat Smith. About the book: It’s the mid-1960s, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is … Continued
Studs Terkel, historian, actor, and broadcaster. Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples’ accounts of the country’s involvement in World War II, won the Pullitzer Prize. For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel … Continued
