Excellent Excerpts: Moments in Compelling Nonfiction
The world is full of great, contemporary nonfiction that non-academics rarely hear about. In this podcast, I read excerpts from contemporary nonfiction works in history, politics, art, literary analysis, theology, philosophy and more in the hope of teasing you into pursuing the whole book.
Excellent Excerpts: Moments in Compelling Nonfiction
Episode 2 -- Democracies failing, Ballpark, Douglass, Victoria, Moby
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Doug Jones
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Season 1
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Episode 2
In the second episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:
- *How Democracies Die* by Levitsky and Ziblatt -- here are the key signals for authoritarianism
- *Ballpark: Baseball in the American City* by Paul Goldberger -- finding space for Yankee Stadium
- *Frederick Douglass* by David Blight -- at the ten year anniversary of the assassination
- *Queen Victoria* by Lucy Worsley -- Albert's Christmas trees
- *Readings in Moby-Dick* -- "Meanings of the Sea" by William Hamilton -- water frees
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City* by Paul Goldberger -- finding space for Yankee Stadium