WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

From 2003- Dr. Hugh Evans, author of "The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election." The book is an examination of the horrific health woes with which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was contending as he undertook his unprecedented campaign for a fourth term as president - health woes that were largely unknown not only to the general public but to most in his own administr...

Part One: (from 2009) Dr. Jordan B. Metzl, author of "The Young Athlete: A Sports Doctor's Complete Guide for Parents." Part Two: (from 2002) Jim Platt, author of "Sports Immortals: Stories of Inspiration and Achievement." The author's father, Joel Platt, has amassed one of the most impressive personal collections of sports memorabilia in the world.

Postponed from last week: James Kwak, co-author (with Stephen B. Bright) of "The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts."

From 2007 - Kristin Espinasse, author of "Words in a French Life: Lessons in Love and Language from the South of France."

From the spring of 1999, entertainment legend Steve Allen (1921-2000) .... the creator of The Tonight Show, a prolific author and composer. He visited both Wingspread and Carthage College in the spring of 1999. This interview is not only special because of Mr. Allen - but also because it was one of the only interviews I conducted with my friend and WGTD colleague Bill Guy, the creator of the Morni...

From 2018, Martin Osterdahl, author of "Ask no Mercy" (a Max Anger novel).

Author Josh Haven discusses his newest novel, "The Siberia Job," a thriller set in Russia in the tumultuous period following the fall of the old Soviet Union.

Part One- Ariane Szu-Tu, co-editor of National Geographic's Kids Almanac 2024. Part Two- (from the archives) Trevor Corson, author of "The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists are Unraveling the Mysteries of our Favorite Crustacean."

From 2006 - a conversation with Dr. Don Kummings (1940-2017), who for 36 years was a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and one the country's leading authorities on Walt Whitman. The occasion of this conversation was the publication of Professor Kummings' fourth book about Whitman, A COMPANION TO WALT WHITMAN.

From the archives: Here is the interview I was privileged to do with Daniel Ellsberg back in 2010 shortly before the PBS telecast of the documentary film "The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." (Mr. Ellsberg passed away on June 16th at the age of 92.)

Part one- Stanley Coren, author of "How Dogs Think: What the world looks like to them and why they act the way they do." Part two- Emily Yoffe, author of "What the dog did: Tales from a formerly reluctant dog owner." <Originally scheduled to air Tuesday, June 20th>

For Father's Day..... Tim O'Brien discusses his memoir "Dad's Maybe Book," in which he talks about the experience of becoming a father quite late in life. The book was published- and the interview was recorded- in 2019.

An archival conversation about gender stereotypes in higher education with Dr. Sylvia Beyer, a longtime Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Kemper Center, executive director of Kemper Center - and Robin Ingrouille, Kemper's administrator.

From 2002- a brief interview with Erik Lindbergh, a grandson of Charles Lindbergh. The occasion of the interview was the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh's historic solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 .... and the publication of a brand new book about him titled "Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero," for which Erik wrote the forward.

Kostya Kennedy is one of the editors of "The Story of Baseball in 100 Photographs," which comes from Sports Illustrated. (from 2018)

This is an exploration of how the game of golf first established itself in America. Charles D. Burgess is author of "Golf Links: Chay Burgess, Francis Ouimet, and the Bringing of Golf to America." (Chay Burgess was the author's great grandfather.)

Kristen Singer, a music and theater teacher at Harborside Academy, and Carly Mikula, who just graduated from there, discuss their exciting experiences at the most recent Jerry Awards ... an event in Madison that brings together gifted musical theater students from across the state. A production Kristen directed earlier this year- "Chicago"- was honored with a place in the program - and C...

From 2002- Gus Russo, author of "The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America." 'The Outfit' was the nickname of one of the most powerful organized crime cartels in Chicago. It exerted enormous influence over the city and beyond for half a century.

Alaya Dawn Johnson- "The Library of Broken Dreams"

From 2003- Karen Bruckner, co-author of "The Anger Advantage: The Surprising Benefits of Anger and How it Can Change a Woman's Life."

From 2003- Eric Alterman, author of 'What Liberal Media: The Truth about Bias and the News."

From approximately 20 years ago- Paul Fleischman, author of "Seedfolks." This book was chosen as the focus of that year's Racine Reads project, in which readers of all ages and from all across the city were encouraged to read this heartwarming and inspiring book.

From 2002, Eric Klinenberg, author of "Heat Wave: a Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." The book examines the devastating heat wave in the summer of 1995 in which Chicago saw temperatures as high as 106 degrees over the course of an entire week. It is estimated that 700 people died due to the oppressively hot weather. Klinenberg wanted to understand why the death rate was so high in...

For Nan Calvert's monthly visit to the Morning Show, we talk about two new projects by Root Pike WIN (the Root Pike Watershed Initiative Network) ... at Campbell Woods and Cliffside Park ... with Dave Giordano, executive director of Root Pike WIN.