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Ep. 251 Frank McCourt on Angela’s Ashes: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Memoir

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Irish American writer Frank McCourt wrote a book in 1996 that was on the New York Times bestseller list for over 100 weeks. Over the next 20 years, "A...

Ep.250 Peter Gomes, "The Good Book"

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week's encore interview is from September 21, 1997. Twenty-eight years ago. Our guest was Peter J. Gomes, former minister of the Memorial Church ...

Ep. 249 Alexandra Churchill, "Ring of Fire"

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

British historian Alexandra Churchill is no relation to the former prime minister. However, her new book is the history of the world at war in 1914, t...

Ep. 248 Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most of the names are familiar to those who follow politics and government. Hunter Biden, Rudolph Giuliani, Tony Podesta, Paul Manafort, and many othe...

Ep. 247 Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Boston-based writer Doug Most's new book is called "Launching Liberty: The Epic Race to Build the Ships That Took America to War." Most, who spent 15 ...

Ep. 246 Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Yale constitutional law professor Akhil Reed Amar's second book in a trilogy is titled "Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920." In Pr...

Ep. 245 Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kenneth Feinberg is a Washington-based attorney who served as a special master of the US government's 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Mr. Feinberg wor...

Ep. 244 William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

William Arthur Galston has been a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution since 2006 and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal for the past 12 ...

Ep. 243 Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Retired George Mason University history professor, Peter Henriques, starts off his author's note writing: "If anyone had told me in the summer of 2023...

Ep. 242 Geri Spieler on Housewife Assassin: The True Story Behind a Suburban Double Life

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In September 1975, 17 days apart, two women, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The fir...

Ep. 241 Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The book is called "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future." Author Dan Wang (WONG) was born in China in 1992. His parents moved to Canada wh...

Ep. 240 Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The names are almost all known nationally: Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, David Dinkins, Al Sharpton, Larry Kramer, and Donald Trump. These are people who we...

Ep. 239 Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Taubman and his brother William have written what the publisher Norton is calling "McNamara at War: A New History." It's a full life biography ...

Ep. 238 Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Flynn's book is titled, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer." Mr. Flynn points out in his introduction that...

Ep. 237 Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our last podcast, Ed Luce of the Financial Times told us about his book, "Zbig," for Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928-2017) who he calls America's great p...

Ep. 236 Edward Luce, "Zbig" - Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy

16 Sep 2025

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"I was initially very skeptical about embarking on a full life biography of anyone, let alone a figure as big as Zbig."Edward Luce is talking about Pr...

Ep. 235 Simon Ball, "Death to Order"

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Ball is the author of the book "Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination." Professor Ball is British and is located at the University o...

Ep. 234 Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"

02 Sep 2025

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Author Sam Tanenhaus opens the acknowledgement section in his latest book, "Buckley," this way: "I first met William F. Buckley in 1990, shortly after...

Ep. 233 Jay Winik, "1861"

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Historian Jay Winik first appeared on the Booknotes television program 24 years ago to discuss his book, "April 1865." It became a #1 New York Times b...

Ep. 232 Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sir Richard J. Evans has been writing about Germany and Adolf Hitler for his entire professional life. He was knighted in Britain in 2012 for his serv...

Ep. 231 David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In our earlier discussion with Zaakir Tameez about his biography of Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, he discussed his differences with Profess...

Ep. 230 Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Sumner was from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a U.S. Senator for 23 years from 1851 to 1874. Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, was brutally ...

Ep. 229 John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The patriarch, C.F. Seabrook, was hailed as the Henry Ford of agriculture. His son, Jack, a keen businessman, was poised to take over what Life magazi...

Ep. 228 Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a word, Evan Osnos' latest book focuses on the subject of money. His book is titled "The Haves and the Have Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultra-Rich." ...

Ep. 227 Dave Barry, "Class Clown"

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Barry's memoir is called "Class Clown." It is at least his 46th book. On the front of his book, he makes an important declaration: "How I went 77...

Ep. 226 John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a follow-up to last week's interview with Lien-Hang Nguyen, here is an encore interview with former CBS and ABC reporter John Laurence. Mr. Laurenc...

Ep. 225 Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Netflix is offering a five-part documentary series titled "Turning Point: The Vietnam War,...

Ep. 224 William Geroux, "The Fifteen"

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One October morning in 2018, journalist William Geroux says he was returning some books to his local Virginia Beach Library when he noticed a new stat...

Ep. 223 Claire Hoffman, "Sister, Sinner"

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a story from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. The book by Claire Hoffman is called "Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of A...

Ep. 222 Kathryn Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen"

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In several recent episodes of the podcast, we have featured books about the World War II era. An important figure from that time has been mentioned bu...

Ep. 221 Kenneth Rogoff, "Our Dollar, Your Problem"

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kenneth Rogoff is professor of economics at Harvard University and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist. In his most recent book, ...

Ep. 220 Rick Atkinson, "The Fate of the Day"

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rick Atkinson has just published the second volume of his American Revolution trilogy. The book is called "The Fate of the Day" and covers years 1777 ...

Ep. 219 Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn"

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On November 17th, 2002, 23 years ago, Rick Atkinson appeared on the Booknotes television program to discuss his book, "Army at Dawn." This was the fir...

Ep. 218 Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"Ernest Cuneo played Ivy League football at Columbia University and was in the old Brooklyn Dodgers NFL franchise before becoming a City Hall lawyer a...

Ep. 217 Clay Risen, "Red Scare"

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

McCarthyism, Whitaker Chambers, Alger Hiss, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Paul Robeson, House Un-American Activities Committee, the Smith Act, the Holly...

Ep. 216 Jill Eicher, "Mellon vs. Churchill"

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

After a career in investment management and some time as a credit risk specialist at the US Treasury Department, Jill Eicher has written her first boo...

Ep. 215 Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Hassan Tetteh, in his latest book, opens the introduction with a question: "How do we prepare for the future with AI?" His primary focus is on hea...

Ep. 214 Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

British writer Phil Tinline has written a book titled "Ghosts of Iron Mountain." The publisher Scribner calls it "an investigative masterpiece for rea...

Ep. 213 Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"

08 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Overy is a British historian who has spent most of his professional life writing books about war, primarily World War II. Professor Overy's cu...

Ep. 212 Dennis Hutchinson, "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"

01 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a follow on to Stuart Banner's history of the Supreme Court, this week's Booknotes+ podcast features a 2002 interview with Dennis Hutchinson, a Uni...

Ep. 211 Stuart Banner, "The Most Powerful Court in the World"

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

UCLA law professor Stuart Banner's book, "The Most Powerful Court in the World," is a history of the United States Supreme Court from the founding era...

The C-SPAN Story

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

C-SPAN Founder Brian Lamb is in conversation with Sam Feist, the network's CEO, and Susan Swain, C-SPAN's former co-CEO, about his quest to bring live...

Ep. 210 Steven Gillon, "Presidents at War"

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Gillon was a scholar in residence at the History Channel for more than 20 years. He has written 12 books on subjects including a history of the...

Ep. 209 Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"

11 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As a follow up to our recent podcast regarding the life and times of Anne Frank, we asked author Alexandra Ritchie to tell us more about the horrors o...

Ep. 208 Katherine Carter, "Churchill's Citadel"

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the years right before World War II started in 1939, Winston Churchill had been out of government. However, even though he was far from power, his ...

Ep. 207 Ruth Franklin, "The Many Lives of Anne Frank"

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

80 years ago, in early 1945, 15-year-old Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic in the Nazi German-based concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. As the 7500...

Ep. 206 Sean McMeekin, "July 1914"

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A little over 100 years ago was the beginning of what's often been called the Great War. World War I had military casualties of over nine million and ...

Ep. 205 David Levering Lewis, "The Stained Glass Window"

11 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Levering Lewis is an American historian and retired professor from New York University. He's the author of 12 books and the winner of two Pulitz...

Ep. 204 Jane Calvert, "Penman of the Founding"

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

John Dickinson is one of the most significant founders of the United States who is not well known by the American public. Author Jane Calvert is tryin...

Ep. 203 Robert Kaplan, "Waste Land"

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For In his latest book titled "Waste Land," author Robert Kaplan focuses on the importance of technology in determining the world's future. Kaplan, au...

Ep. 202 John Berendt, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For 216 weeks, a record, John Berendt's book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" sat on the New York Times best sellers list. It was published i...

Ep. 201 Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer on His Life & Work

14 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Since his first interview on C-SPAN on Booknotes in 1993, Harold Holzer has appeared on the network close to 200 times. Up to that year he had written...

Ep. 200 Michael Tackett, "The Price of Power"

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell has spent 40 years in the United States Senate, 17 of those as leader of his Republican colleagues. That's the longes...

Ep. 199 Brion McClanahan, "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America"

31 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brion McClanahan has a PhD in history from the University of South Carolina. Several years ago, he wrote a book titled "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up Am...

Ep. 198 Peter Osnos, "LBJ & McNamara"

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In his latest book, "LBJ & McNamara," Peter Osnos's dedication reads this way: "To those on the Vietnam Wall on the Mall and their countless Vietnames...

Ep. 197: Edward Aldrich, "The Partnership"

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In an earlier conversation in this series, Evan Thomas discussed his 1986 book, "The Wise Men." There were 6 of them: Messrs. Acheson, Bohlen, Harrim...

Ep. 196 James Bradley, "Martin Van Buren"

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James M. Bradley's biography of Martin Van Buren is the first full-scale portrait of the 8th president in 4 decades. Mr. Bradley is co-editor of the M...

Ep. 195 Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men"

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A book called "The Wise Men" was first published in 1986. The cover copy says that "it was about six friends and the world they made." The names Harri...

Ep. 194 Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People"

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to professor Corey Brettschneider, author of "The Presidents and the People," the following presidents in history threatened democracy: "Joh...

Ep. 193 Talmage Boston, "How the Best Did It"

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Talmage Boston considers himself a full-time lawyer and a full-time historian. His latest book is called "How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from...

Ep. 192 Kyla Scanlon, "In This Economy?"

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The title of the book is "In This Economy?" The author, Kyla Scanlon, subtitles her 277-page effort: "How Money and Markets Really Work." Ms. Scanlon ...

Ep. 191 Tess Owen, "Inside the Patriot Wing"

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the past 10 years, Tess Owen has covered extremism, disinformation, and politics for several nationally owned publications. In the October 8, 2024...

Ep. 190 Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allied leaders FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin were planning to meet secretly in Tehran. The Nazi...

Ep. 189 Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Max Boot, in his 836-page book titled "Reagan: His Life and Legend," says that his is the first definitive biography of the 40th president. Boot sugge...

Ep. 188 Brenda Wineapple, "Keeping the Faith"

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brenda Wineapple calls them "two gladiators." The year was 1925. She writes that "the ubiquitous politician William Jennings Bryan and the criminal la...

Ep. 187 Harvey Mansfield on Presidential Immunity

08 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Harvey Mansfield has been a professor of political philosophy at Harvard for over 6 decades. He retired from the classroom in 2023 at age 91. However,...

Ep. 186 Megan Gorman, "All the Presidents' Money"

01 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The book is titled "All the Presidents' Money." It's about how the men who governed America governed their own money. The author, Megan Gorman, is the...

Ep. 185 Lindsay Chervinsky, "Making the Presidency"

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lindsay Chervinsky is the brand-new executive director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. Simultaneously, her new book on ...

Ep. 184 Dr. Marty Makary, "Blind Spots"

17 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor. He has published more than 300 scientific research articles. His book is called "Bli...

Ep. 183 Ken Khachigian, "Behind Closed Doors"

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The book is called "Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon." It's the title of a memoir by a man who worked closely with both. Ken Khach...

Ep. 182: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 2

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is the second in a 2-part series with David Roll, a Washington-based attorney, who has written books on Harry Hopkins, George Marshall, and Louis...

Ep. 181 David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 1

27 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

David Roll, a Washington-based attorney, has written books on Harry Hopkins, George Marshall, and Louis Johnson. Now comes his fourth book, "Ascent to...

Ep. 180 Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money"

20 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Presidential historian Tevi Troy has called his latest book "The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Indus...

Ep. 179 Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

13 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Maureen Callahan's book "Ask Not: The Kennedy's and the Women They Destroyed" has been near the top of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list s...

Ep. 178 Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

06 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Richard Brookhiser has written and edited for National Review magazine for over 50 years. He has also written books about George Washington, James Mad...

Ep. 177 Former Washington Post Reporter & Professor Leon Dash

30 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leon Dash spent over 30 years with the Washington Post from 1966 to 1998. In 1995 series on poverty and survival in urban America. Leon Dash spent 4 y...

Ep. 176 Ronald Feinman, "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency"

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This Booknotes+ podcast is a repeat of a Q&A program from November 4, 2015. The featured guest, Ronald Feinman, is the author of the book "Assassinati...

Ep. 175 Nigel West, "Operation Garbo"

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rupert William Simon Allason was a Conservative member of the British House of Commons from 1987 and 1997. However, he's best known around the world a...

Ep. 174 Investigative Reporter Brody Mullins on Google & Law Professor Joshua Wright, and "The Wolves of K Street"

09 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Saturday, June 8th, 2024, the headline in the Wall Street Journal Saturday review section read: "The Hidden Life of Google's Secret Weapon." The au...

Ep. 173 Robert Schmuhl, "Mr. Churchill in the White House"

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Schmuhl is the Walter Annenberg-Edmund Joyce Chair Emeritus in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame. He has often wr...

Ep. 172 David Tatel, "Vision"

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On January 16, 2024, after nearly 30 years, David Tatel retired as a judge on the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. On the cover ...

Ep. 171 Historian Stacey Schiff at Purdue University

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Six-time book author Stacy Schiff made a guest appearance in early April at Purdue University. She was a guest of the C-SPAN Center for Scholarship & ...

Ep. 170 Garrett Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive"

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"June 6, 1944, is the most famous single day in all human history." Those are the words of Garrett Graff in his author's note in his book "When the Se...

Ep. 169: Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first week of publication of Erik Larson's latest book, "The Demon of Unrest," sales put it at the very top of the bestseller list. It's about ...

Ep. 168 Glenn Loury, "Late Admissions"

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Glenn C. Loury is a professor of economics. He teaches at Brown University and is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He calls his new book "L...

Ep. 167 Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"

21 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation professor of history at the University of Virginia. He is only one of 5 history writers who ha...

Ep. 166 Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For over 10 years, Washington Post investigative reporter Craig Whitlock has tracked the story of Malaysian shakedown man Leonard Francis, aka "Fat Le...

Ep. 165 Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Duke Ellington was the grandson of slaves. Louis Armstrong was born in a News Orleans slum so tough that it was called "The Battlefield." William Jame...

Ep. 164 Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The book "Fire and Rain" is a narrative, according to author Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, about the way national security decisions, formed at the highest...

Ep. 163 Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Early in his newest of over 30 books, Joseph Epstein, our guest this week, writes: "I feel extremely lucky in all these realms in which I had no real ...

Ep. 162 Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series

16 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Drudge started his website called "The Drudge Report" in 1995. In those early days, he had just 1,000 e-mail subscribers. Within a short time, th...

Ep. 161 Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The book is called "The Real Hoosiers". The author is Pennsylvania-based Jack McCallum. He was a senior writer at Sports Illustrated for 30 years. "Th...

Ep. 160 Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was a United States Senator for 23 years. He lived to be 63, from January of 1811 to March of 1874. Stephen Puleo has ...

Ep. 159 Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"

26 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Pettegree is a British historian at St. Andrews University in Scotland. His specialty is the history of the book and media transformations. He ...

Ep. 158 Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler's latest book, they open with this introduction: "This is a book of love stories. Every one of them involved a president...

Ep. 157 James Traub, "True Believer"

12 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

James Traub's latest book is titled "True Believer: Hubert Humphrey's Quest for a More Just America." In the introduction, Mr. Traub writes: "I return...

Ep. 156 Peter Englund, "November 1942"

05 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The year is 1942, the month is November. The subject of Peter Englund's book is "An Intimate History of the Turning Point of World War II." Mr. Englun...

Ep. 155 Jim Trusty, Defense Attorney

27 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jim Trusty, our guest this week, is an attorney with 28 years of experience as a prosecutor, first in the state of Maryland and later with the U.S. Ju...

Ep. 154 Glenn Kirschner, Former Federal Prosecutor & "Justice Matters" Host

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Glenn Kirschner, our guest this week, is an attorney with 30 years of trial experience. For 24 of those years, he prosecuted 50 murder trials for the ...

Ep. 153 Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg"

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

"Between 1881 and 1914, over ten million people crossed the Atlantic from Europe to America, the largest mass migration of people from one continent t...