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Send us Fan Mail Here's Johnny! Mark Malkoff joins me to talk Love Johnny Carson: One Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legend. Buy Love Johnny Carson Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's go west! Nathaniel Philbrick joins me to talk The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World. Buy The Rush Check out Nathaniel's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's face the unknown! Robert Kolker joins me to talk The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia. Buy The Vanishing Family Check out Bob's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef (Doubleday Books) There Will Come Soft Rains by Brianna Gervat  The City Without Jews by Douglas Smith  (FSG books) Injustice Town by Rick Tulsky  (Pegasus Books) The Sailing of the Intrepid by Montel Williams and David Fisher (Hanover Square Press) The River of Doubt by Candice Millard Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's land this thing! Catherine Grace Katz joins me to talk Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War. Buy Shadow Before the Flame Check out Catherine's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's defect! Ben Macintyre returns to talk Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy. Buy Redwood Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's revolt! Mark Edward Lender joins me to talk War Without Mercy: Liberty or Death in the American Revolution. Buy War Without Mercy Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's remember dad! Tom Junod joins me to talk In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir. Buy In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's start a fire! Matthew Wolfe joins me to talk Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage. Buy Fires in the Night Check out Matthew's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Tim Curry - Vagabond (Grand Central Publishing) Stone Lands - Fiona Robertson (Pegasus) Ortiz’s War - Nicholas Reynolds and Katie Sanders (Harper Horizon) American Alt - Chris Lockhart (Bloomsbury) Lightning Beneath the Sea - James Tabor (W.W. Norton) The Last Duel - Eric Jager Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's take off! Becky Aikman joins me to talk Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II. Buy Spitfires Check out Becky's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's catch a super terrorist! Joby Warrick joins me to talk The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist. Buy Carlos the Jackal Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's survive! Loubna Mrie joins me to talk Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria. Buy Defiance Check out Loubna's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail He's back! James M. Scott joins me to talk Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War. Buy Empire of Ashes Check out James' website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Another month, another list of books I don’t want you to miss just because they didn’t get to come on the pod! How to Rule the World by Theo Baker – or as I like to call it, how to make college more difficult than it needed to be. Baker tells the story of going to Stanford University where he expects to become another tech billionaire but somehow ends up on a collision course with...

Send us Fan Mail Let's not say it! Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor joins me to talk Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me. Buy Something We Said Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's go on the run! Zayd Ayers Dohrn joins me to talk Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground. Buy Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young Check out Zayd's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's set him free! Pamela Colloff joins me to talk Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast. Buy Catch the Devil Check out Pamela's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's get lit! Jonathan Vigliotti joins me to talk Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A. Buy Torched Check out Jonathan's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's compromise! Lawrence Goldstone joins me to talk Imperfect Union: How Errors of Omission Threaten Constitutional Democracy. Buy Imperfect Union Check Out Lawrence's Website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's celebrate 250! The legendary Rick Atkinson joins me to talk The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780. Buy The Fate of the Day Check out Rick's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Here they are, the books I don’t want you to miss for June 2026! First, we have The Summer of Death by Geoff Williams. Did you know that in 1936 there was a deadly heatwave that killed thousands of Americans? Of course, you didn’t and neither did I! Thankfully, we have Geoff Williams to not only tell this story, but to know when to crack a joke and when to take things seriously. N...

Send us Fan Mail Let's go down to the river! True Crime King Gregg Olsen joins me to talk By the River's Edge: A True Story of Identity and Serial Murder. Buy By The River's Edge Check out Gregg's website Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's make some money! Megan Gorman joins me to talk All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money. Buy All the Presidents' Money Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Let's set sail! David Reynolds joins me to talk Two Ships: Jamestown 1619, Plymouth 1620, and the Struggle for the Soul of America. Buy Two Ships Check out David's website Support the show