That Said With Michael Zeldin

Join Michael in his conversation with Oliver Franklin-Wallis as they discuss him new book Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future which takes inside the secretive multi-billion-dollar waste management industry and shares a blueprint for building a healthier and more sustainable future before we are buried in our own trash.



Oliver is an award-winning magazine journalist and is the current feature editor for British GQ magazine. In 2017 he was named the Print Writer of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors. This is his first book.

Join Michael in his conversation with Sally Jenkins about her new book, The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life, which explores seven fundamental principles behind great decision-making gleaned from her decades-long career as one of the great sports writers of our time.

Sally Jenkins has been a Washington Post columnist and feature writer for more than twenty years. She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the winner of the Associated Press Red Smith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Sports Journalism. 



In 2005 she was the first woman to be inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.

Join Michael in his conversation with Professor Laurel Leff about her recent book, Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions of Refugees from Nazi Europe which explores the how American Universities made decisions about which scholars fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe were worth saving and those who they left to die.

Join Michael in his discussion with historian Heather Hendershot in a discussion of her new book When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America, which revisits the TV coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and compellingly argues that this convention was a pivotal moment in American history when the notion of a liberal biased media became mainstreamed and nationalized.

Join Michael in his conversation with Michael Finkel to discuss his new book, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession which chronicles the life of Stephane Breitwieser the most prolific art thief in history responsible for the theft of over 200 works of art in a ten-year period worth nearly two billion dollars.

Join Michael in his conversation with Jim Abrahams and David Zucker, two of the three

writers and directors of the film Airplane! About their new book, Surely You Can’t Be Serious:

The True Story Of Airplane! Airplane!, released in 1980, remains one the most revered film

comedies clocking in at number 10 on the American Film Institute top 100 comedies of all

time.

Michael’s special guest host is Alex Zeldin, a writer and producer whose credits include ​Billy on the Street, Honest Trailers, ​and an Untitled Steve-O Movie.

We begin season four with a very special guest: Professor Heather Cox Richardson. Professor Richardson will discuss her new book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America which chronicles the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and offers suggestions on how best to combat it.

Join Michael in his conversation with Steve Drummond as they discuss his new book, The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two which chronicles the work of Truman’s Senate Investigative Committee that battled fraud, waste, and abuse in the military-industrial complex during the war years.

Join Michael in his conversation with Rachel Louise Martin as they discuss her new book A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation which tells the forgotten story of the first high school to attempt court-mandated desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956.

Join Michael in his conversation with Paul Kix as they discuss his new book You Have to be Prepared to Die Before you can Begin to Live: Ten weeks in Birmingham that Changed America which tells the behind-the-scenes story of the momentous 1963 Birmingham Campaign to end segregation in the most dangerous city in America; frighteningly known as “Bombingham”. These ten weeks shaped the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.