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Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Antonia Senior, author of Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire (Public Affairs). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion o...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Laurence Jurdem, author of 41: George H. W. Bush and the End of the American Establishment (Bombardier). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedI...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Liaquat Ahamed, author of 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World (Penguin Press). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow P...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Ian Shapiro, author of After the Fall: From the End of History to the Crisis of Democracy, How Politicians Broke Our World (Basic Books). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Odd Arne Westad, author of The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History (Henry Holt). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn ,...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Michael Mandelbaum, author of The American Way of Foreign Policy: Ideology, Economics, Democracy (Oxford University Press). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persua...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Frank Dikotter, author of Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity (Bloomsbury). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , Linke...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard Aldous talks to Steve Israel, author of The Einstein Conspiracy (Compass Rose Publishing). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , Instagram , and You...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard Aldous talks to Christopher Clark, author of A Scandal in Königsberg (Penguin). Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , Instagram , and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as we...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard Aldous talks to Hélène Landemore, author of Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule (Thesis). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn ,...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Nicolas Stavros Niarchos, author of The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth (Penguin Press). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita A...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard Aldous talks to Georgios Varouxakis, author of The West: A History of an Idea (Princeton University Press). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , In...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… For our first episode of 2026, Richard talks to Geoffrey Ward, author of The American Revolution: An Intimate History (Knopf). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , In...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Kori Schake, author of The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States (Polity). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Shadi Hamid, author of The Case for American Power (Simon & Schuster). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Foll...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Sven Beckert, author of Capitalism: A Global History (Penguin Press). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follo...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Vanessa Williamson, author of The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History (Basic Books). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard talks to Phillips O’Brien, author of the new book, War and Power: Who Wins Wars—And Why (Public Affairs). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Prod...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week, Richard Aldous talks to Phillip Taubman and William Taubman, authors of the new book, McNamara at War: A New History (Norton). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richar...

Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST. Grab a coffee, settle onto the couch, and see your weekend out with a deep dive into the best new book releases… This week Richard talks to Scott Anderson, author of the new book, King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Doubleday). Bookstack is a production of Amer...

Bookstack returns after the summer with Richard talking to author Simon Ball about his new book, Death to Order: A Modern History of Assassination (Yale University Press). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter) , LinkedIn , and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as...

In this week’s episode, Richard talks to Ross Benes, author of 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times (University Press of Kansas). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter) , LinkedIn , and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as...

This week Richard talks to Karen Elliott House, author of the new book, The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed Bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia (Harper). Bookstack is a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter) , LinkedIn , and YouTube to keep up with our latest articles, podcasts, and events, as wel...

In today’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Joan C. Williams, award-winning scholar of social inequality and author of Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back (St. Martin's Press). Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion . Host: Richard Aldous Producer (for the last time): Laura Silverman Follow Persuasion on X (Twitt...

In today’s episode of Bookstack, host Richard Aldous sits down with Bryan Burrough, acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and author of The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild (Penguin Random House) . Bookstack is now a production of American Purpose at Persuasion .Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Laura Silverman Follow Persuasion on X (Twitter ), LinkedIn , and YouTube  to keep up with our latest...