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I think we worked off of Judy Carter's book. I think it's called like the standup comedy book or the standup comedy Bible.

What it means to be biracial the meaning of race itself and how that keeps changing is the theme of the novels and the memoir by tomorrow's guest Danzie Senna.

Her new novel is called Colored Television.

At the time Freiling had written the book Once Upon a Time in Italy, The Westerns of Sergio Leone.

I spoke with him in 1992 after the publication of his autobiography, What's It All About?

He wrote about his birth in the charity ward of a hospital, coming of age in a working class neighborhood and his rise as a movie star.

When I was a young lad I found a book, How to Teach Yourself Film Acting.

for many years Kazan refused to publicly address the subject, but he broke his silence in his autobiography, Elia Kazan, A Life.

I'm very proud of this book it's called A Life.

I think it's a marvelous book and I think in time when anybody wants to look back 50s and 60s and 70s in American public culture they will have to read this book and I think it's a landmark kind of book so I'm proud I did it.

He directed Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront, and directed East of Eden, Splendor in the Grass, Baby Doll, A Face in the Crowd, and The Last Tycoon.

Those walks spurred Frazier's fascination with the burrow's rough and resilient history, captured in his new book Paradise Bronx.

But read the opening chapter of Ian Frazier's new book Paradise Bronx, and I think it's a good bet that like a car stuck on the Major Deegan Expressway, you'll stay put for hours, except voluntarily.

Frazier's signature voice, droll, ruminative, generous, draws readers in.

And as my guest today writes in his new book, they're also venues where people go to wrestle with defining the soul of America. Frank Garitti's new book, The Stadium, An American History of Politics, Protest and Play is a deeply researched look at the role of stadiums in the United States.

His previous book, The Sports Revolution, How Texas Changed the Culture of American Athletics is about The Sports Revolution of the 60s and 70s when civil rights and feminist movements were reshaping the nation.

Rhoad's new book is Where Tyranny Begins.

Camille Perri's lively and substantive dual biography of the Stevenson's called A Wilder Shore whisks those obscuring thoughts off Fanny and restores her to full personhood.

Perri opens A Wilder Shore with a scene that could have been written by Louis but instead was lived by Fanny.

After reading A Wilder Shore I'm inspired to reread Robert Louis Stevenson's three great works of fiction, Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

author and scholar Frank Garitti joins us to talk about his new book The Stadium, an American history of politics, protest, and play, where he chronicles how stadiums are our nation's public squares and how they are our community.

author of the new book Gray Matters, A Biography of Brain Surgery.

In his new book, Gray Matters, a biography of brain surgery, he writes about the past, present and future of brain surgery.

He's the author of the new book ... Biography of Brain Surgery.

He's also authored three books, including Joe Biden, A Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, published in 2020.

It's called Bad Monkey, and it's based on the novel by Carl Hyacin.

Bad Monkey, both the book and the new Apple TV+ series serves up generous helpings of it all, like a heaping bowl of conch chowder.

Hyacin wrote a sequel to Bad Monkey called Razor Girl featuring the same character of Andrew Yancey.

His new book is Foreign Agents, How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World.

His new book is Foreign Agents, How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World.

His new book is Foreign Agents, How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World.

Casey Michelle's new book is Foreign Agents, How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World.

In his new book, White Robes and Broken Badges, Moore gives a firsthand account of his experiences infiltrating the KKK's invisible empire and the rise in white supremacy ideology.

Our guest today is Joe Moore, a former informant for the FBI; he's written a new book called White Robes and Broken Badges infiltrating the KKK and exposing the evil among us.

If you're just joining us, my guest is Joe Moore; he's written a book about infiltrating the KKK. His book is called White Robes and Broken Badges.

His book is called White Robes and Broken Badges infiltrating the KKK and exposing the evil among us.

Writer Joe Moore, his book is called White Robes and Broken Badges infiltrating the KKK.

The Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II, is now out in paperback.

Writer Evan Thomas recorded last year, his book Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II is now out in paperback.

His book, Road to Surrender, Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II is now out in paperback.