journalism

"Beyond War" by David Rohde

Joe Donahue — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:10:00 +0000

In Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Rohde distills eleven years of expert reporting into a call for change.

An incisive look at the evolving nature of war, Rohde exposes how a dysfunctional Washington squandered billions on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, neglected its true allies in the war on terror and failed to employ its most potent nonmilitary weapons.

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Joe Donahue — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:12:00 +0000

In The Philadelphia Chromosome, journalist Jessica Wapner tells the story of the breakthrough cancer drug Gleevec, which has saved the lives of thousands of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and other cancers since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it in 2001.

"My Animals and Other Family" by Clare Balding

Joe Donahue — Tue, 07 May 2013 15:30:00 +0000

Clare Balding is an award-winning BBC broadcaster and writer. At the London Olympics of 2012 she was proclaimed a “national treasure.'” She became the face of the BBC’s horse racing coverage in 1998, and now works across a wide range of sports. She will join us to tell tales from her new memoir, My Animals and Other Family.

4/22/13 - Panel

Joe Donahue — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, newsman Ray Graf and WAMC’s Morning Edition host, David Guistina. Joe Donahue moderates.

This morning our discussion topics include:
• Latest on Boston Bombing suspect
• NY Post on Bombing
• Media Coverage Report Card
• George W. Bush Presidential Museum opens this week

"Margaret Fuller: A New American Life" by Megan Marshall

Joe Donahue — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:35:00 +0000

Margaret Fuller was a groundbreaking author, social reformer, and Transcendentalist. In her new biography about Fuller, Pulitzer finalist, Megan Marshall, tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley’s offer to be the New-York Tribune’s front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience.

The book is entitled, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life.

"American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things" by Bob Dotson

Joe Donahue — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:35:00 +0000

For the six million people who watch the Emmy Award–winning “American Story with Bob Dotson” on NBC’s Today Show, Bob Dotson’s reports celebrate the inspirational stories of everyday Americans. Dotson has been crisscrossing the country for more than forty years—logging more than four million miles—in search of people who have quietly but profoundly changed our lives and our country for the better.

Here we speak with Dotson about his new book, American Story: A Lifetime Search for Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things.

"Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan" by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Joe Donahue — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:35:00 +0000

The author of the acclaimed bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, tells the startling, behind-the-scenes story of the US’s political and military misadventure in Afghanistan in his new book, Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan.

In this meticulously reported and illuminating book, Rajiv Chandrasekaran focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of President Obama’s surge, and reveals the epic tug of war that occurred between the president and a military that increasingly went its own way.

3/19/13 - Panel

Joe Donahue — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:00:00 +0000

Today's panelists are: Alan Chartock, George Hearst - Vice President, Associate Publisher, and General Manager of the Times Union, Rex Smith is Editor of the Times Union, and Mike Spain - TU’s Associate Editor.

They join us to discuss the TU's new press and the state of print journalism. Joe Donahue moderates.

"The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power"

Joe Donahue — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:10:00 +0000

As President Barack Obama's Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, set out to repair America's image around the world—and her own. For the four years she served, BBC foreign correspondent Kim Ghattas had unparalleled access to Clinton and her entourage. She tells the story in The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power.

"The American Way of Eating" by Tracie McMillan

Joe Donahue — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:10:00 +0000

When journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 organic tomatoes, she couldn’t help but wonder: What about the rest of us? Why do working Americans eat the way we do? And what can we do to change it? To find out, McMillan went undercover in three jobs that feed America, living and eating off her wages in each.

Her book is The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table.