That Said With Michael Zeldin

Join Michael in his conversation with Corey du Browa about his fun book An Ideal For Living, A Celebration of the EP—Extended Play which chronicles the history of the extended play record and offers Corey’s selection of the top EP by decade and of all time.

Corey duBrowa - https://x.com/coreydu

Burson - https://x.com/bursonglobal

Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts. Saving Grace offers a compelling prescription for navigating the times in which we find ourselves. Grace, Kirsten compellingly, argues is what makes human coexistence possible.

Guest Kirsten Powers

Kirsten Powers is a New York Times bestselling author, USA Today columnist and CNN senior political analyst where she regularly appears on Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Tonight and The Lead with Jake Tapper. The Washington Post has called her “bright-eyed, sharp-tongued, [and] gamely combative” and “a ferocious advocate for her points of view.” Kirsen is the publisher of the Substack bestseller, Changing the Channel.

Kirsten’s most recent book is SAVING GRACE: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts (Convergent Books). Jon Meacham called it, “A great gift at an urgent hour” and Kate Bowler praised Saving Grace as a “courageous call to truth and love existing side by side.”

Join Michael in his discussion with Lydia Abarca Mitchell in part two of our discussion of The Swans of Harlem which tells the story of the creation of the Dance Theater of Harlem and their five original dancers.

Lydia was the first principal ballerina for the Dance Theater of Harlem.

Join Michael in his conversation with Karen Valby about her new book The Swans of Harlem:Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History which tells the story of the five original ballerinas in the Dance Theater of Harlem.

This is Karen’s second book. She is a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair, and her writing has appeared in, among other places, The New York Times, Fast Company, Time, Glamour, and Entertainment Weekly, where she spent fifteen years writing about pop culture.

Douglas Brinkley, Rice University Professor of Humanities and History and CNN Presidential historian, joins host Michael Zeldin to discuss how history will assess the Trump presidency, Trumpism, and this period of American history

Douglas Brinkley’s previous conversation with Michael

https://redcircle.com/shows/9628320e-8ac7-43bc-b394-79d0ca7fc4d7/episodes/e2c0f018-e24b-4ea0-82ad-d465eab19917

Tragedy on Trial, The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial, which reveals as never before the entire and shocking story of the 1955 trial of Emmett Till’s murderers.

Based on extensive research, and accompanied by photos of the trial Collins brings the story alive, revealing all its manipulations of justice.

https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Trial-Infamous-Emmett-Murder/dp/1531027490

Michael is speaking with Wright Thompson about his new book, The Barn The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi which is a revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till.

https://www.instagram.com/wrightthompsonbooks/

Abbott Kaler’s new book Eden Undone, a true story of sex, murder, and utopia at the dawn of World War II, explores the universal and timeless desire to seek utopia by three sets of exiles to the Galapagos Islands. Abbott is the author of four New York Times bestselling works of narrative nonfiction. 

She is a native of Philadelphia, where she has spent six years as a journalist covering crime, advocating for abused women, and hanging out with mafia bosses, baseball wives, and others. 

https://www.abbottkahler.com/

Michael’s guest is ​Thomas ​Fuller. He’s here to talk ​about ​his ​inspirational ​new ​book, ​The ​Boys ​of ​Riverside, ​A ​Deaf ​Football ​Team ​and ​the ​Quest ​for ​Glory, ​which ​tells ​the ​story ​of ​the ​California ​school ​for ​the ​Deaf, ​Riverside ​and ​its ​pursuit ​of ​a ​football ​championship ​in ​California.

The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory: 9780385549875: Fuller, Thomas

Transcript of the conversation

Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller (@thomasfullerNYT)

Join Michael in his conversation with Graham Moore about his new book of historical fiction entitled The Wealth of Shadows, Money is a Dangerous Weapon in which he tells the story of a group of US Treasury Department officials and their efforts to bring down Nazi Germany through economic warfare. 

Graham is a New York Times-bestselling novelist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker.

His novels — The Wealth of Shadows (2024), The Hold Out (2020), The Last Days of Night (2016), and The Sherlockian (2010) — have been published in 24 countries and translated into 19 languages. The Last Days of Night was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, while The Sherlockian was nominated for an Anthony Award for best first novel.

His screenplay for The Imitation Game (2014) won the Academy Award, WGA Award, and PEN Award, and was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. His film directorial debut The Outfit (2022) premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and was named one of the 10 best films of the year by the Houston Chronicle.