Bookstack

Mar 09 2025 159 ep. 30 mins 47
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Biweekly conversations between Richard Aldous, Bard College professor and distinguished historian, and authors on their newest books.

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Episode 159: Wolfgang Münchau on Germany Going Kaput

Mar 09 2025 38 mins  
In this week’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with economist and financial journalist Wolfgang Münchau to discuss his new book, Kaput: The End of the German Miracle (Swift Press).Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as

Episode 158: Tevi Troy on the Epic Clashes between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry

Feb 23 2025 31 mins  
In this week’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Tevi Troy, presidential historian, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Heath and Human Services, and prolific author to discuss Troy’s new book, The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry (Skyhorse Publishing). Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose a

Episode 157: Katherine C. Epstein on How Theft of 20th Century Tech Built the National Security State

Feb 09 2025 35 mins  
In this week’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Katherine C. Epstein, associate professor of history at Rutgers University-Camden and author of the new book, Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State (The University of Chicago Press).Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Pe

Episode 156: Lindsay Chervinsky on John Adams' Republic-Forging Precedents

Jan 22 2025 30 mins  
In this week’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous talks to presidential historian Lindsay M. Chervinsky, author of the new book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic (Oxford University Press).Note: this episode was recorded in early January 2025.Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Persuasion on X (

Episode 155: Michael Mandelbaum on the Titans of the Twentieth Century

Dec 13 2024 30 mins  
In this week's episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous talks to Michael Mandelbaum, author of the new book, The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made (Oxford University Press).Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcas

Episode 154: Caitlin Rivers on the Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks

Dec 02 2024 32 mins  
In this week's episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous talks to Johns Hopkins epidemiologist Caitlin Rivers, PhD, about her new book, Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks (Viking). Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as

Episode 153: Hyrum Lewis on the Myth of Left and Right

Nov 14 2024 25 mins  
In this week’s episode of Bookstack, recorded in the week post-U.S. presidential election, host Richard Aldous chats with American historian Hyrum Lewis about his latest book, co-written with his brother Verlan Lewis, The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America (Oxford University Press)Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Pers

Episode 152: Admiral James Stavridis on the U.S. Navy, NATO, and the Human Story

Oct 31 2024 32 mins  
In this week’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous chats with Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret.), former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, about his latest book, The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy (Penguin Random House).Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and YouTube to keep up wi

Episode 151: Sean McMeekin on the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Communism

Oct 17 2024 34 mins  
In this week’s episode, host Richard Aldous talks to fellow Bard College historian Sean McMeekin about his new book, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Basic Books).Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion.Follow Persuasion on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as well as u

Episode 150: Marsha E. Barrett on the Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

Oct 03 2024 31 mins  
Bookstack is back with its 150th episode! On this week's show, host Richard Aldous talks to Marsha E. Barrett, assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about her new book, Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma: The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism (Three Hills/Cornell University Press). Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion