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The Age Of Radiance By Craig Nelson chats with Dr. Alvin

Craig Nelson-Radiance Click Here To Listen When Marie Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller forged the science of radioactivity, they created a revolution that arced from the end of the nineteenth century, through the course of World War II and the Cold War of superpower brinksmanship, to our own twenty-first-century confrontation with the dangers of nuclear power and proliferation—a history of paradox, miracle, and nightmare. While nuclear science improves our everyday lives—from medicine to microwave technology—radiation’s invisible powers can trigger cancer and cellular mayhem. Writing with a biographer’s passion, Craig Nelson unlocks one of the great mysteries of the universe in a work that is tragic, triumphant, and above all, fascinating.

By |May 6th, 2014|Military, Science, Technology, War|Comments Off on The Age Of Radiance By Craig Nelson chats with Dr. Alvin
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Alex’s Wake By Martin Goldsmith chats with Dr. Alvin

Martin Goldsmith Click Here To Listen A tale of two journeys... On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner SS St. Louis sailed away from Hamburg, Germany, bound for Havana, Cuba. On board were more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany. But an indifferent world conspired against them. After being denied landing rights in Havana, the refugees were turned away by the United States and Canada and forced to sail back to Europe, where the gathering storm of the Holocaust awaited them. Two of those refugees were Alex Goldschmidt, a sixty-year-old veteran of World War I, and his seventeen-year-old son Klaus Helmut Goldschmidt. After their trans-Atlantic voyage, they landed in France. They would [...]

By |May 3rd, 2014|Biography, History, War|Comments Off on Alex’s Wake By Martin Goldsmith chats with Dr. Alvin
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Resister By Bruce Dancis chats with Dr. Alvin

Bruce Dancis Click Here To Listen Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon became a leader of the draft resistance movement.

By |May 2nd, 2014|Biography, Military, War|Comments Off on Resister By Bruce Dancis chats with Dr. Alvin
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The Burning Shore By Ed Offley chats with Dr. Alvin

Ed Offley Click Here To Listen On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft peppered the water with depth charges, but to no avail. Within the next twenty-four hours, a fourth ship lay at the bottom of the channel— all victims of twenty-nine-year-old Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen and his crew aboard the German U-boat U-701. In The [...]

By |April 28th, 2014|Biography, History, Military, War|Comments Off on The Burning Shore By Ed Offley chats with Dr. Alvin
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Joel Lambert Of Discovery’s Lone Target chats with Dr. Alvin

Joel Lambert Click Here To Listen Lone Target stars Los Angeles based elite former Navy Seal, Joel Lambert. Pit him against the world's most elite military and law enforcement tracking teams in remote, exotic and dangerous regions in the world and film the adventure as a stand alone weekly hour action reality show.

By |April 28th, 2014|Entertainment, History, Television, War|Comments Off on Joel Lambert Of Discovery’s Lone Target chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Sliver Of Light by Joshua Fattal chats with Dr. Alvin

Joshua Fattal Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for two years tell their story. In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison, where they discovered that pooling their strength of will and relying on each other were the only ways they could survive. In this poignant memoir, “the hikers” finally tell their side of the story. They recount the deception that lured them into Iran in the first place and describe the psychological torment of interrogation and solitary confinement. We [...]

By |April 25th, 2014|Biography, Politics, War|Comments Off on A Sliver Of Light by Joshua Fattal chats with Dr. Alvin
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Arab Winter Comes To America by Robert Spencer chats with Dr. Alvin

Robert Spencer Click Here To Listen Robert Spencer explains the driving forces behind the jihadists operating now in the US: Their beliefs, their associations, and the international jihad network that is working for the same goals around the globe -- including in the Arab spring uprisings.

By |April 24th, 2014|Politics, War|Comments Off on Arab Winter Comes To America by Robert Spencer chats with Dr. Alvin
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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, And Death In The Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill chats with Dr. Alvin

Amanda Vaill Click Here To Listen Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call “the decisive thing of the century”—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea, chief of [...]

By |April 24th, 2014|Biography, History, Relationships, War|Comments Off on Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, And Death In The Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill chats with Dr. Alvin
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An Ordinary Man by Paul Ruseabagina

Paul Rusesabagina Click Here To Listen Readers who were moved and horrified by Hotel Rwanda will respond even more intensely to Paul Rusesabagina’s unforgettable autobiography. As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his “guests” and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and [...]

By |April 20th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, War|Comments Off on An Ordinary Man by Paul Ruseabagina
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Run, Don’t Walk by Adele Levine

Adele Levine Click Here To Listen In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape. As body armor and advanced trauma care helped save the lives—if not the limbs—of American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, Walter Reed quickly became the world leader in amputee rehabilitation. But no matter the injury, physical therapy began the moment the soldiers emerged from surgery. Days at Walter Reed were intense, chaotic, consuming, and heartbreaking, but they were also filled with camaraderie and humor. Working in a glassed-in fishbowl gymnasium, Levine, her colleagues, and their combat-injured patients were on display at every moment to tour groups, politicians, and [...]

By |April 19th, 2014|Medical, Military, War|Comments Off on Run, Don’t Walk by Adele Levine
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