Speaking of Writers

Written by: Steve Richards
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  • Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer
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Episodes
  • Craig Johnson- Tooth and Claw
    Dec 22 2024

    Craig Johnson’s New York Times bestselling Longmire Mysteries have captivated fans for years with their vivid portrayal of the American West—a place where the landscape itself is a character. His work takes us far beyond the chaos of modern life and into a world where the action is swift, the justice is great, and vastness of the landscape invites reflection, resilience, and a deeper connection to something timeless. TOOTH AND CLAW: A Longmire Story. Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire. He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction and the Mountain & Plains Independent Booksellers Association's Reading the West Book Award for fiction. His novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population 26. #craigjohnson #longmire

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    26 mins
  • Randall Woods- John Quincy Adams- A Man for The Whole People
    Dec 18 2024

    In this masterful, deeply researched biography, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: A Man for the Whole People (Dutton), historian and award-winning author Randall Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy to expose a complex man under the pressure to live up to his voluntary family name, a rich and complicated family saga, and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic.

    Randall Woods is a John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, where he has taught since 1971. His books include LBJ: Architect of American Ambition and Fulbright: A Biography, which won the Robert H. Ferrell Prize.


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    24 mins
  • Nigel Hamilton- LINCOLN VS. DAVIS: The War of the Presidents
    Dec 15 2024

    Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the “railsplitter” from Illinois grew into his critical role as U.S. commander-in-chief, and managed to outwit his formidable opponent, Jefferson Davis, in what remains history's only military faceoff between rival American presidents. Davis was a trained soldier and war hero; Lincoln a country lawyer who had only briefly served in the militia. Confronted with the most violent and challenging war ever seen on American soil, Lincoln seemed ill-suited to the task: inexperienced, indecisive, and a poor judge of people’s motives, he allowed his administration's war policies to be sabotaged by fickle, faithless cabinet officials while entrusting command of his army to a preening young officer named George McClellan – whose defeat in battle left Washington, the nation’s capital, at the mercy of General Robert E. Lee, Davis’s star performer. The war almost ended there. But in a Shakespearean twist, Lincoln summoned the courage to make, at last, a climactic decision: issuing as a “military necessity” a proclamation freeing the 3.5 million enslaved Americans without whom the South could not feed or fund their armed insurrection. The new war policy doomed the rebellion—which was in dire need of support from Europe, none of whose governments now would dare to recognize rebel “independence” in a war openly fought over slavery. The fate of President Davis was sealed. With a cast of unforgettable characters, from first ladies to fugitive coachmen to treasonous cabinet officials, Lincoln vs. Davis is a spellbinding dual biography from renowned presidential chronicler Nigel Hamilton: a saga that will surprise, touch, and enthrall. About the Author: Historian Nigel Hamilton is a New York Times best-selling biographer of General Bernard “Monty” Montgomery, President John F. Kennedy, President Bill Clinton, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, among other subjects. He has won multiple awards, including the Whitbread Prize and the Templer Medal for Military History. The first volume of his FDR a War trilogy, The Mantle of Command, was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is a senior fellow at the McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston, and splits his time between Boston, Massachusetts, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

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    35 mins

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