Kevin McGruder, "Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem" (Columbia UP, 2021)
What was Harlem before its Renaissance, and how did it come to be? In Philip Payton: The Father of Black Harlem (Columbia University Press, 2021), historian Kevin McGruder, Associate Professor at Anti...
13 Aug 20211h 1min
Samantha Barbas, "The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Over the course of a long and successful legal career, Morris Ernst established himself as one of Americas foremost civil libertarians. Yet his advocacy of free speech – an advocacy that established t...
13 Aug 202151min
Patricia O’Brien, "Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
In Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O.F. Nelson (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017), O’Brien chronicles the life of a man described as the “archenemy” of New Zealand and the Britis...
12 Aug 20211h 1min
Buzzy Kerbox, "Making Waves" (Legacy Isle Publishing, 2019)
Who is the most interesting man in the world? The guy from the Dos Equis beer ads? Nope, it’s Buzzy Kerbox. This haole kid from O’ahu, Hawai’i burst into the professional surfing scene as a teenager i...
11 Aug 20211h 13min
Tiffany A. Sippial, "Celia Sánchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary" (UNC Press, 2020)
I sat down with Dr. Tiffany Sippial to talk about her latest book, Celia Sanchez Manduley: The Life and Legacy of a Cuban Revolutionary (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Celia Sanchez Mandul...
6 Aug 20211h 19min
Greg Larson, "Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
Today we are joined by Greg Larson, author of Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir (University of Nebraska, 2021). In Clubbie, Larson shares his unique perspective from his two-year stint as clubho...
3 Aug 202136min
Julie Rodgers, "Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story" (Broadleaf Books, 2021)
Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story, written by Julie Rodgers was published in 2021 by Broadleaf Books Publishing Inc. In this honest and vulnerable book, Rodgers takes us through her journey fr...
3 Aug 202146min
Daryl R. Ireland, "John Song: Modern Chinese Christianity and the Making of a New Man" (Baylor UP, 2020)
Dubbed the "Billy Sunday of China" for the staggering number of people he led to Christ, John Song has captured the imagination of generations of readers. His story, as it became popular in the West, ...
2 Aug 20211h 41min
