That Said With Michael Zeldin

Join Michael in his conversation with Kevin Sack about his new book Mother Emanuel, Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church which is an epic account of perseverance not just the Mother Emanuel congregation in Charleston, SC but of a people  who withstood enslavement, Jim Crow, and all matter of violence with an unbending faith. Kevin Sack is a veteran journalist...

Join Michael in his conversation with Janet Singer Applefield about her new book Becoming Janet, Finding Myself In The Holocaust which tells the story of her survival as a child in Poland during the Holocaust. Janet is one of the 11% of Jewish children who survived the Holocaust thanks to the kindness of righteous Christians. Since coming to America, Janet earned her undergraduate degree from Rutg...

Join Michael in his conversation with Professor Alan Dershowitz about his new book The Preventive State, The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties which articulates a jurisprudence of prevention which endeavors to balance the needs of governments to prevent future harm while balancing the need to protect fundamental civil liberties. Alan Dershowitz has been lit...

Join Michael in his conversation with Gareth Gore about his new book, Opus, The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy in the Catholic Church , which documents the rise and secret history of the Opus Dei movement. Gareth is a financial journalist and editor with two decades of experience covering some of the biggest financial stories in over 25 countries. His writing has...

Join Michael in his conversation with Becky Aikman about her new book, Spitfires, The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II which tells the story of the American Women who flew the world’s most dangerous aircraft through the treacherous skies over Great Britain during World War II. Becky Aikman is the author of two books of narrative nonfiction: her memoir, Saturday Nig...

Join Michael in his conversation with Joan Nathan about her fabulous book, My Life in Recipes, Food, Family, and Memories which uses recipes to look back on her life, her family history, and her personal journey discovering Jewish cuisine from around the world. Joan is the author of twelve cookbooks. Her books have won awards from both the International Association of Culinary Professionals and th...

Join Michael in his conversation speaking with Robert Edsel about his new book Remember Us, American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II which follows twelve main characters over a six-year span from 1940-1946 in war-torn Maastricht, Netherlands. Robert M. Edsel is the New York Times bestselling author of four non-fiction books including The Monuments Men which s...

In this special edition honoring National Cancer Survivors Day, join me in this reissue of my interview journalist Ali Rogin, author of Beat Breast Cancer Like A Boss , and Dr. Felice Gersh, integrative medicine physician, women's health advocate and author. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Mary Annette Pember about her new book Medicine River, A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools which is a deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them on her own family and Native culture and life. Mary is a citizen of the Red Cliff Band of the Wisconsin Ojibwe....

Join Michael Zeldin for this timely conversation of anti-Asian racism with Daniel James Brown as they discuss his book, Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II: a compelling saga of patriotism, highlighting the contributions and sacrifices that Japanese Americans and their families made for the sake of the country and the world. Guest Daniel James Brown I grew...

Join Michael in his conversation with Professor Elaine Pagels about her new book Miracles and Wonder, The Historical Mystery of Jesus which explores the life and the enduring legacy of Jesus to attract and inspire. Professor Pagels is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of the Gnostic Gospels which won both the National Book Award and the Na...

Join Michael in his discussion with Rossana D’Antonio about her new book, 26 Seconds, Grief, Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash , which tells the harrowing story of the crash of TACA airlines flight 390 in Honduras, which was piloted by her brother. Rosanna is a licensed engineer with expertise in infrastructure design and emergency management. She is a Fellow with the Am...

Join Michael in his discussion with Heather Cox Richardson about where we have come since the publication of her book Democracy Awakening in 2023. Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College and an expert on American and political history. She is the author of a widely read Substack newsletter, Letters from an American which synthesizes history and modern political issues. T...

Join Michael in his conversation with Grace Kessler Overbeke about her new book, First Lady of Laughs, The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America’s First Jewish Woman Stand-up Comedian which tell the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Grace Kessler Overbeke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at Columbia Col...

Join Michael in his discussion with David Enrich about his new book Murder the Truth, Fear, The First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful , which details an ongoing assault from the right on New York Times v. Sullivan. David is the business investigations editor for The New York Times and the bestselling author of Dark Towers among other books. He is the winner of numerous jou...

Join Michael in his conversation with Shigehiro Oishi about his new book Life in Three Dimensions, How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make for a Fuller, Better, Life which offers insight into the question of what makes for a good life. Shige is the Marshall Field IV Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He is one of the foremost authorities on happiness, meaning, and cultur...

Join Michael in his conversation with Randy Blythe the frontman for the Lamb of God heavy metal band about his new memoir Just Beyond The Light, Making Peace with the Wars Inside our Head . Randy is a writer, photographer, actor, and frontman for the heavy metal band Lamb of God. This is his second book. He lives in Richmond, VA when he is not on the road touring. Advertising Inquiries: https://re...

Legendary author Judith Viorst joins Michael to talk about her latest book, Making the Best of What's Left, When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered , in which she writes about the late life meaning of wisdom, happiness, second chances, and being home. Judith is the author of the beloved Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, the Lulu books, including Lulu and...

Join Michael in his conversation with Melissa Ludtke about her new book Locker Room Talk, A Woman’s Struggle To Get Inside which chronicles her years long effort to get major league baseball to provide her and other women sports reporters with equal access to the NY Yankees locker room so she could do her job as a baseball reporter for Sports Illustrated. Melissa was a reporter for Sports Illustra...

Join Michael Zeldin in his conversation with Jeffrey Toobin about his new book,  The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy , which explores the most controversial pardon in American history—Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon—and its profound implications for our current political situation.  Jeffrey is a longtime CNN Legal Analyst, author of ten books including, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh...

Join Michael in his conversation with Don Lemon about his new book    I Once Was Lost, My Search for God in America which tells his personal journey as a person of deep religious faith but also serves as a warning about the hijacking of religion by the religious right and its implications for American Democracy. Don Lemon is an award winning journalist who has spent three decades on local and nati...

Join Michael in his conversation with Juan Williams about his new book New Prize for These Eyes, The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement which traces the rise of the second civil rights movement beginning with then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s 2004 keynote address to the Democratic National Convention. It is a perfect primer for understanding the Trump 2.0 attacks on the moveme...

Join Michael in his conversation with Charles Duhigg about his book Supercommunicators, How To Unlock the Secret Language of Connection which is a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work, and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life. It is especially interesting for those who are dating. Charles is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a re...

Join Michael as we revisit his conversation with Sandy Greenberg as they discuss his memoir, Hello Darkness, My Old Friend, How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness Into An Extraordinary Vision For Life which recounts how he was blinded at age 19 and, against all odds, and with the help of Art Garfunkel, Sandy graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University, was a M...

Join Michael in his discussion with Professor Justene Hill Edwards about her powerful new book, Savings and Trust the Rise and Betrayal of the Freedmen's Bank . Created after the Civil War, The Freedmen’s Bank was where tens of thousands of formerly enslaved people placed their savings only to have them stolen by corrupt white bankers.  Savings and Trust | Justene Hill Edwards | W. W. Norton &...