Synopsis
The Harvard Press Podcast brings you interviews with the authors of books currently being published by Harvard University Press. Chris Gondek talks with the authors about their books, their influences and their interests.
Episodes
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Missile Next Door
10/11/2012 Duration: 16minChris Gondek interviews Gretchen Heefner about the history of the Minuteman Missile System and how its deployment in the Plains altered the lives of ranching and farming communities.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Brigham Young
01/11/2012 Duration: 19minChris Gondek interviews John Turner about the life of Mormon pioneer, Brigham Young.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Freaks of Fortune
24/10/2012 Duration: 19minChris Gondek interviews Jonathan Levy about how the idea of risk changed in 19th century America.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Omnivorous Mind
16/04/2012 Duration: 16minChris Gondek interviews John Allen about our evolving relationship with food.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Gothicka
21/03/2012 Duration: 18minChris Gondek interviews Victoria Nelson about the power of the Gothic imagination in modern culture..
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Harvard Press Podcast- Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery and the Eclipse of Certainty
06/03/2012 Duration: 17minChris Gondek interviews Modris Eksteins about a scandal involving forged Van Gogh's in Weimar Berlin.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
28/02/2012 Duration: 16minChris Gondek interviews Lawrence Powell of Tulane University about the early history of New Orleans.
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Harvard Press Podcast- To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
09/01/2012 Duration: 16minChris Gondek interviews Sydney Nathans of Duke University about the efforts of escaped slave Mary Walker to liberate her family from North Carolina.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Unintended Reformation: How a Religous Revolution Secularized Society
28/11/2011 Duration: 26minChris Gondek interviews Brad Gregory of the University of Notre Dame about the ongoing consequences of the Protestant Reformation on modern society.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
17/10/2011 Duration: 15minChris Gondek interviews Mark McGurl of Stanford University about the history of Creative Writing Programs at American Universities.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts
19/09/2011 Duration: 16minChris Gondek interviews Mark Peterson of Mt. Holyoke about how Galileo's artistic training influenced his scientific methods.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
12/09/2011 Duration: 15minChris Gondek interviews Denise Gigante of Stanford about the lives of the poet, John Keats and his brother, the Anglo-American businessman, George.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Rising Force: The Magic of Magnetic Levitation
01/06/2011 Duration: 13minChris Gondek interviews James Livingston of MIT about the amazing properties of magnetic levitation.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Listed: Dispatches from America's Endangered Species Act
28/04/2011 Duration: 15minChris Gondek interviews Joe Roman of the University of Vermont about the history and consequences of the Endangered Species Act.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
13/04/2011 Duration: 14minChris Gondek interviews Nicholas Frankel of VCU about the historical background of this Oscar Wilde classic.
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Harvard Press Podcast- The Law of Life and Death
01/04/2011 Duration: 16minChris Gondek interviews Elizabeth Price Foley of FIU about the legal issues around life and death in American jurisprudence.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Deep Secrets: Boys, Friendships and the Crisis of Connection
23/03/2011 Duration: 13minChris Gondek interviews Niobe Way of NYU about the problems boys have maintaining emotionally intimate friendships with other boys as they enter their teens.
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Harvard Press Podcast- Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
16/11/2010 Duration: 11minDavid Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Interview by Michael Orey, Public Affairs Director, NYU School of Law..
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Harvard Press- What Was African American Literture?
21/10/2010 Duration: 15minChris Gondek interviews Kenneth Warren about the relationship between Jim Crow and African American Literature.
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Harvard Press- The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds and the Invention of Monogamy
17/05/2010 Duration: 14minChris Gondek interviews Bernd Heinrich, the author of The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds and the Invention of Monogamy.