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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 D. J. Taylor, author of The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien (Pegasus). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , Instagr...

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 Peter Bergen, author of All the Presidents’ Wars: Twenty-Five Years of America's War on Terror . Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , Inst...

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 Maya Kornberg, author of Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress (Johns Hopkins 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 Admiral William J Fallon, author of Decisions, Discord & Diplomacy: From Cairo to Kabul (Fortis). Host: Richard Aldous Producer: Bhaasita Athani Follow Persuasion on X , LinkedIn , Ins...

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...