Read Beat (...and repeat) Podcast
1) "Hollywood and Hitler: 1933-1939" by Thomas Doherty
Hollywood came under scrutiny after World War II as the fear of Communism gripped the country. The Cold War came to Hollywood in 1947 when the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious r...Show More
2) "Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life"
Tiffany Jenkins takes a look at privacy in her new book, Strangers and Intimates. As Jenkins points out, the whole concept of privacy is a relatively recent development. She points to an article publi...Show More
3) "Eating Up Route 66" by T. Lindsay Baker
T. Lindsay Baker’s Eating Up Route 66 is not your typical Mother Road guidebook. It’s a history—with business notes, photographs, and recipes. Baker, a retired history professor from Texas has written...Show More
4) "The Devil Reached Toward the Sky" by Garrett Graff
If you haven’t read an oral history before, it’s like flashing through comments that sometimes follow an online article. Only with a difference: you don’t see those back-and-forth arguments that alway...Show More
5) "America America" by Greg Grandin
When you get through reading America America by Greg Grandin, a Yale University history professor, you have to wonder what might have been when it comes to U.S. policies regarding Latin America over t...Show More
6) "The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant" by Liza Tully
Liza Tully’s previous literary effort was a grim thriller set in Siberia. “It was a suspense novel, but I realized it was very dark,” she said. The author, who wrote Finding Katarina M under the pseud...Show More
7) "Nightmare in the Pacific" by Michael Doyle
Michael Doyle's Nightmare in the Pacific is a book about an aspect of World War II you probably haven’t heard before: the saga of Artie Shaw, the big-band leader who took his group on a whirlwind tour...Show More
8) "The Age of Choice" by Sophia Rosenfeld
A new book looks at the short history of the freedom of choice. Some of us have more choices than we’ve ever had—from what to buy and where to live and whom to love, even what to believe--but how did ...Show More
9) "Fallen Tigers" by Daniel Jackson
China is sometimes described as the forgotten theater of war during World War II. But it’s unlikely that the Chinese people have forgotten their eight-year war with Japan, a ferocious engagement that ...Show More
10) "Play This Book Loud" by Joe Bonomo
Play This Book Loud is the literary equivalent of a trip to the record store, that enchanting experience of searching for something new from something old. Joe Bonomo (pronounced Bo-know-mo, not the ...Show More