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At the height of the American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland and the West. On this episode we revisit our conversation with Timothy Egan about his book, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them.
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Sarah Maslin Nir and Raymond White Jr.'s join us to discuss their new book, 'The Jockey & Her Horse' which is inspired by the true story of the first Black female jockey, Cheryl White, who raced to the finish line on her horse, Jetolara.
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Nahvied Mahdavian joins us to talk about his new graphic memoir, "This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America".
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What happens when beauty intersects with horror? Jehanne Dubrow joins us to talk about her newest nonfiction collection, Exhibitions: Essays on Art and Atrocity.
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On this episode we're joined by Ken Sanders from Ken Sanders Rare Books. We’ll hear excerpts from some of my favorite interviews with: singer-songwriter Janis Ian; and professor, author and search and rescuer Scott Hammond.
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In this much-anticipated sequel of the book, Massacre at Mountain Meadows Richard E. Turley Jr. and Barbara Jones Brown examine the aftermath of The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Vengeance Is Mine.
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We're joined by Ben Goldfarb to talk wildlife and discuss his upcoming book, Crossings: How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet.
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Marcel Danesi is a professor emeritus of semiotics and linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of the recent book, Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective, and he joins us to dive into the psychology of conspiracies.
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We revisit our conversation with renowned astronomer and science communicator Philip Plait to discuss his new book Under Alien Skies.
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In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present. James Tabery joins us for this episode.