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The Arsenal Of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, And An Epic Quest To Arm An America At War By A.J. Baime chats with Dr. Alvin

AJ Baime Click Here To Listen In 1941, as Hitler’s threat loomed ever larger, President Roosevelt realized he needed weaponry to fight the Nazis—most important, airplanes—and he needed them fast. So he turned to Detroit and the auto industry for help. The Arsenal of Democracy  tells the incredible story of how Detroit answered the call, centering on Henry Ford and his tortured son Edsel, who, when asked if they could deliver 50,000 airplanes, made an outrageous claim: Ford Motor Company would erect a plant that could yield a “bomber an hour.” Critics scoffed: Ford didn’t make planes; they made simple, affordable cars. But bucking his father’s resistance, Edsel charged ahead. Ford would apply assembly-line production to [...]

By |July 9th, 2014|Biography, History, Politics, Transportation, Travel, War|Comments Off on The Arsenal Of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, And An Epic Quest To Arm An America At War By A.J. Baime chats with Dr. Alvin
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Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing Miami With Chad Carroll chats with Dr. Alvin

Chad Carroll Click Here To Listen Chad Carroll is an area "Power Broker" in every sense.  With a wealth of experience in finance, contracts and negotiation, as well as real estate, Carroll skillfully structures deals designed to put clients in their dream homes, providing expert guidance and utilizing an abundance of professional resources.  A frequent contributor in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Daily News and The New York and South Florida Edition of The Real Deal Magazine - Carroll has set an incomparable standard among his peers. In 2008, Carroll moved from New York City to pursue South Florida's collapsing real estate market. In just five years, he has emerged at the top, penetrating [...]

By |July 8th, 2014|Television|Comments Off on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing Miami With Chad Carroll chats with Dr. Alvin
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Stay With Me: A Brenna Spector Novel Of Suspense By Alison Gaylin

Alison Gaylin Click Here To Listen Alison Gaylin is the author of Into the Dark, the Shamus Award-winning And She Was, the Edgar®-nominated thriller Hide Your Eyes, as well as its sequel, You Kill Me, and two stand-alone novels, Trashed and Heartless. A graduate of Northwestern University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Alison lives with her husband and daughter in upstate New York.

By |July 8th, 2014|Fiction, Mystery|Comments Off on Stay With Me: A Brenna Spector Novel Of Suspense By Alison Gaylin
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The Boys In The Boat: Nine Americans And Their Epic Quest For Gold At The 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown chats with Dr. Alvin

Daniel James Brown-Boys In The Boat Click Here To Listen Out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the [...]

By |July 8th, 2014|History, Sports|Comments Off on The Boys In The Boat: Nine Americans And Their Epic Quest For Gold At The 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown chats with Dr. Alvin
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One Plus One By JoJo Moyes chats with Dr. Alvin

JoJo Moyes-One Plus One Click Here To Listen American audiences have fallen in love with Jojo Moyes. Ever since she debuted Stateside she has captivated readers and reviewers alike, and hit the New York Times bestseller list with the word-of-mouth sensation Me Before You. Now, with One Plus One, she’s written another contemporary opposites-attract love story. Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can’t afford to pay for. That’s Jess’s life in a nutshell—until an unexpected knight in shining armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess’s knight turns out to be Geeky [...]

By |July 8th, 2014|Fiction, Relationships, Romance|Comments Off on One Plus One By JoJo Moyes chats with Dr. Alvin
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Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales chats with Dr. Alvin

Laurence Gonzales Click Here To Listen Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet. As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and [...]

By |July 8th, 2014|History, Transportation, Travel|Comments Off on Flight 232: A Story of Disaster and Survival by Laurence Gonzales chats with Dr. Alvin
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Deal With The Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship With A Mafia Killer By Peter Lance chats with Dr. Alvin

Peter Lance Click Here To Listen Five-time Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files and exclusive new interviews to disclose the epic saga of Colombo family capo Gregory Scarpa Sr. "The perfect mix of thorough research and gripping storytelling."—NPRGregory Scarpa Sr. spent more than thirty years as a paid top echelon FBI informant while wreaking havoc as a drug dealer, loan shark, bank robber, hijacker, high-end securities thief, and killer. A Mafia capo whose nicknames were "Grim Reaper" and "Killing Machine," Scarpa was enlisted by the FBI in the 1960s. His debriefings on Mafia activities went straight to J. Edgar Hoover, revealing the structure of Cosa Nostra long [...]

By |July 3rd, 2014|Crime|Comments Off on Deal With The Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship With A Mafia Killer By Peter Lance chats with Dr. Alvin
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“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer

By |July 3rd, 2014|Quotes, Self-Help, Spirituality|Comments Off on “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” Albert Schweitzer
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