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From John J. Miller: For more than seven years, I’ve hosted an author-interview podcast at National Review Online–and starting right now, we’re jointly producing it with Ricochet.
Rechristened as “The Bookmonger” (and formerly called “Between the Covers”), the podcast features 10-minute conversations with the writers of today’s best books on current events, politics, history, and more.
First up with Ricochet: A chat with Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928. We discuss how the son of a shoemaker and washerwoman could become one of history’s great monsters, plus how American historians extract information from Russian sources.
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This is good news!
Fantastic. Fantastic. A fantastic idea.
Woo hoo! It shows up in the member super feed, and the sound quality is excellent. As always, an interesting interview!
It seems that often enough people in power are afraid of losing it. They surround themselves with trusted aids and body guards, and rid themselves of anyone deemed to be disloyal. This may be minimal such as the replacement of political appointees when administrations change; or it may be a bullet to the brain.
Agree on the sound quality. The previous podcasts (a few years ago) at NRO made John sound like a 60 year old chain smoker.
We were going to call the show Read More Button, but that just seemed to me to unnecessarily tempt fate.
This place just keeps getting better and better! I’ve been listing to “Between the Covers” podcast for years now and the audio quality was irritating. Glad that’s been solved. Welcome to Ricochet John Miller!
This is really a great decision – I’ve enjoyed John Miller’s author interviews, but it’ll be much better having them available on Ricochet! Kudos to the suits!!
I actually stopped listening to the BTC podcasts because of the sound quality. Looking forward to getting back into them again…
We will have iTunes and Stitcher links shortly. In the meantime, you can subscribe to this show using this feed: http://ricochet.com/series/bookmonger-john-miller/feed/
Likewise.
A very good addition to Ricochet.
Looking forward to these – thanks!
Like the other commenters, I’m thrilled to see this podcast join the fold. This book is a great choice for the inaugural podcast. I’ve read a few dozen pages so far and it’s spellbinding. We still understand Stalin so little, and I can’t help suspect it’s partly because of the left-leanings of historians who tend not to look too critically at the Trotskyite view that Stalin hijacked and betrayed the Revolution, full stop.
This show is now on iTunes here (it was just approved a few minutes ago, so may take a couple of hours for it to show up everywhere).
Thanks (belatedly) for the welcome. These recordings are so much better, thanks to Ricochet. We’ve just posted out tenth in the series. For the full list, go here.