Nov 28, 2024
Matt Crawford speaks with journalist and author Betina Anton about her book, Hiding Mengele: How a Nazi Network Harbored the Angel of Death. Josef Mengele, known worldwide for unimaginably cruel human experiments and for sending thousands of people to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, was a fugitive in South America for...
Nov 27, 2024
Matt Crawford speaks with author Dr. James Gregory about his novel, Zephyr's War. Zep Zephyr cultivated sunflowers in the shadow of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, yearning for a life beyond the fields. Determined to escape his humble beginnings, Zep flees his family farm and sets his sights on New York City, driven...
Nov 26, 2024
Matt Crawford speaks with author John Oller about his book, Gangster Hunters: How Hoover's G-men Vanquished America's Deadliest Public Enemies. J. Edgar Hoover was the face of the FBI. But the federal agents in the field, relentlessly chasing the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s with their own lives on the...
Nov 21, 2024
Matt Crawford speaks with educator and author Kevin B. Smith about his book, The Jailor's Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration is Damaging America. How does a Black man in Austin get sent to prison on a 70-year sentence for stealing a tuna sandwich, likely costing Texas taxpayers roughly a million dollars? In America,...
Nov 20, 2024
Matt Crawford speaks with author Aran Shetterly about his book, Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul. On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent to Morningside Homes in Greensboro, North Carolina, gunshots rang out. A caravan...