History

Between the Covers on 09/02/10

Airs at: Thu, 09/02/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ed Goldberg speaks with David Mitchell, whose most recent book is "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet," a historical novel of corruption, betrayal and love in Japan in 1799, when the island nation was almost entirely cut off from the West except for a tiny, quaranti... Read more

Glen David Gold on his new novel "Sunnyside"

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ed Goldberg interviews Glen David Gold, author of Sunnyside, a historical novel set during World War I. It features Charlie Chaplin and Rin Tin Tin. Glen David Gold is the author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil.    CD-1737 Read more

Author Bill Morgan on "The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation"

Airs at: Thu, 05/13/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Kathleen Stephenson speaks with guest Bill Morgan, author of The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete Uncensored History of the Beat Generation, which explores the enduring revolutionary appeal of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and WilliamS. Burroughs and brings to light lesser ... Read more

Sarah Dunant on "Sacred Hearts," a novel of intrigue in a 16th century Italian convent

Airs at: Thu, 04/29/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Sarah Dunant is the author of the international bestseller The Birth of Venus, which has received major worldwide acclaim and In the Company of the Courtesan. With the publication of Sacred Hearts, she rounds out a Renaissance trilogy bringing voice to the lives of three di... Read more

Michael Zweig on the war and the working class: "The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret"

Airs at: Fri, 04/16/2010 at 12:00am
Hosts Northwest Vets for Peace interview Michael Zweig, author of The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret, about "The War and the Working Class."  Michael Zweig is Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he has won the... Read more

Micael Parenti discusses "God and His Demons," a look at the dark side of religion

Airs at: Thu, 04/15/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng speaks with political analyst and author Michael Parenti about his new book, God and His Demons, a look at the dark side of religion, the many evils committed in the name of godly virtue throughout history.  Michael Parenti has won awards from Project Cens... Read more

Novelist Susan Stoner discusses her PDX historical mystery: "Timber Beasts"

Airs at: Fri, 04/09/2010 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Marianne Barisonek interviews Susan Stoner, author of Timber Beasts.  Stoner , general counsel at Portland-headquartered Amalgamated Transit Union Local 757 — worked in her free time to develop a series of historical mysteries set in the Portland of 1902. Now the first... Read more

More Talk Radio on 04/05/10

Airs at: Mon, 04/05/2010 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview author and historical geographer Gray Brechin and Sarah Baker Munro, Board Member of the National New Deal Preservation Association and author of "Timberline Lodge: The History, Art and Craft of an American Icon." Dr. Brechin ... Read more

Political Perspectives on 04/07/10

Airs at: Wed, 04/07/2010 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Sharan Newman an expert in medieval history, speaks with KBOO host Per Fagereng about her new book, "THE REAL HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD," the third in Newman’s Real History series following The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code and The Real History Behind the Temp... Read more

Stories of pioneer family life in Grant County, Oregon

Airs at: Fri, 02/26/2010 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Marianne Barisonek interviews local author Annette White-Parks about the book Cowboy of the Rimrocks: A Memoir of Grant County, Oregon, by Emmett Cochran White, which tells the stories of pioneer family life in Grant County, Oregon from the arrival of the first Anglo s... Read more