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A. J. Baime, Author Of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman And The Four Months That Changed The World Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen AJ Baime-Accidental President The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman’s first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who get thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as FDR’s fourth term Vice President for his well-praised work ethic, good judgment, and lack of enemies, Harry S. Truman--a Midwesterner who had no college degree and had never had the money to buy his own home--was the prototypical ordinary man. That is, until [...]

By |November 7th, 2017|Biography, Politics, War|Comments Off on A. J. Baime, Author Of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman And The Four Months That Changed The World Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Tom Sancton, Author Of The Bettencourt Affair: The World’s Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Tom Sancton Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt is the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life has taken a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she’s now embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world. The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From [...]

By |November 7th, 2017|Art, Biography, Crime|Comments Off on Tom Sancton, Author Of The Bettencourt Affair: The World’s Richest Woman and the Scandal That Rocked Paris Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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Nancy Schoenberger, Author Of Wayne and Ford: The Films, The Friendship, And The Forging Of An American Hero

Click Here To Listen Nancy Schoenberger John Ford and John Wayne, two titans of classic film, made some of the most enduring movies of all time. The genre they defined—the Western—and the heroic archetype they built still matter today. For more than twenty years John Ford and John Wayne were a blockbuster Hollywood team, turning out many of the finest Western films ever made. Ford, known for his black eye patch and for his hard-drinking, brawling masculinity, was a son of Irish immigrants and was renowned as a director for both his craftsmanship and his brutality. John “Duke” Wayne was a mere stagehand and bit player in “B” Westerns, but he was strapping and handsome, [...]

By |November 7th, 2017|Biography, Movies|Comments Off on Nancy Schoenberger, Author Of Wayne and Ford: The Films, The Friendship, And The Forging Of An American Hero
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Michael Doran, Author Of Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Michael Doran “Deeply researched, tightly argued, and accessibly concise” (The New York Times Book Review)—a major retelling of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, a seminal event in the history of US relations with the Middle East, and why President Eisenhower sided with Egypt rather than Britain, France, and Israel, and how he came to regret that decision. In 1956 President Nasser of Egypt moved to take possession of the Suez Canal, thereby bringing the Middle East to the brink of war. The British and the French, who operated the canal, joined with Israel in a plan to retake it by force. Despite the special relationship between England and America, Dwight [...]

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Dr. Bandy X. Lee, Author Of The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists And Mental Health Experts Assess A President Chats On DrAlvin.Com

Click Here To Listen Dr Bandy Lee The New York Times bestseller! More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being. This is not normal. Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder [...]

By |November 6th, 2017|Biography, Government, Health, Medical, Politics, Science|Comments Off on Dr. Bandy X. Lee, Author Of The Dangerous Case Of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists And Mental Health Experts Assess A President Chats On DrAlvin.Com
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David Yaffe, Author Of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell Chats With Dr. Alvin

Click Here To Listen David Yaffe-Herbie Hancock-Joni Mitchell "She was like a storm." ―Leonard Cohen Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country. A Canadian prairie girl, a free-spirited artist, Mitchell never wanted to be a pop star. She was nothing more than “a painter derailed by circumstances,” she would explain. [...]

By |October 27th, 2017|African Americans, Biography, Music, Women|Comments Off on David Yaffe, Author Of Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell Chats With Dr. Alvin
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Jason Fagone, Author Of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story Of Love, Spies, And The Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies On DrAlvin.Com

Jason Fagone Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the modern science of cryptology together and used it to confront the evils of their time, solving puzzles that unmasked Nazi spies and helped win World War II. In 1916, at the height of World War I, brilliant Shakespeare expert Elizebeth Smith went to work for an eccentric tycoon on his estate outside Chicago. The tycoon had close ties to the U.S. government, and he soon asked Elizebeth to apply her language skills to an exciting new venture: code-breaking. There she [...]

By |September 28th, 2017|Biography, War, Women|Comments Off on Jason Fagone, Author Of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story Of Love, Spies, And The Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies On DrAlvin.Com
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DrAlvin.Com Welcomes Brian Culbertson Funk! Tour To NPAC

Brian Culbertson Presented by Mountain States Foundation. All proceeds benefit Niswonger Children's Hospital. Brian Culbertson is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, writer and producer who crosses genres between contemporary jazz, R&B and funk. Heralding from the musically rich city of Chicago, he began his musical studies at the early age of 8 on piano and quickly picked up several other instruments by age 12 including drums, trombone, bass, and euphonium. Inspired by the great R&B/Jazz/Pop artists of the 70’s like Earth Wind & Fire, Tower of Power, Chicago, David Sanborn, and others, Brian Culbertson started composing original music for his 7th grade piano recital and hasn’t stopped having self-produced 16 solo albums, most of which have topped [...]

By |June 23rd, 2017|African Americans, Biography, Music, Performing Arts|Comments Off on DrAlvin.Com Welcomes Brian Culbertson Funk! Tour To NPAC
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David J. Garrow, Author Of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama Chats With Dr. Alvin

David Garrow NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama's formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bearing the Cross Barack Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention instantly catapulted him into the national spotlight and led to his election four years later as America's first African-American president. In this penetrating biography, David J. Garrow delivers an epic work about the life of Barack Obama, creating a rich tapestry of a life little understood, until now. Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama captivatingly describes Barack Obama's tumultuous upbringing as a young black man attending [...]

By |May 26th, 2017|African Americans, Biography, Gospel, History, Politics, Public Affairs|Comments Off on David J. Garrow, Author Of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama Chats With Dr. Alvin
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William Hogeland, Author Of Autumn Of The Black Snake: The Creation Of The U.S. Army And The Invasion That Opened The West Chats With Dr. Alvin

William Hogeland The forgotten story of how the U.S. Army was created to fight a crucial Indian war When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the newly independent United States savored its victory and hoped for a great future. And yet the republic soon found itself losing an escalating military conflict on its borderlands. In 1791, years of skirmishes, raids, and quagmire climaxed in the grisly defeat of American militiamen by a brilliantly organized confederation of Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware Indians. With nearly one thousand U.S. casualties, this was the worst defeat the nation would ever suffer at native hands. Americans were shocked, perhaps none more so than their commander in chief, George Washington, who [...]

By |May 26th, 2017|Biography, History, Leadership, Military, War|Comments Off on William Hogeland, Author Of Autumn Of The Black Snake: The Creation Of The U.S. Army And The Invasion That Opened The West Chats With Dr. Alvin
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