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 3 -- First Crusading, Working Fascism, Poetic Voice, Hawaiian Plantations, Gen. Washington's grief
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Doug Jones
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Season 1
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Episode 3
In the third episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:
- *Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse,* by Jay Rubenstein – Christians out enemy-ing the enemy
- *How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,* by Jason Stanley – the need for an epic past
- *Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice,* by Tony Hoagland and Kay Cosgrove – creating a believable, human voice with the mind in motion
- *Strangers from a Different Short: A History of Asian Americans,* by Ronald Takaki – Asian moves to Hawaiian plantations
- *1776,* by David McCullough – perhaps General Washington’s saddest letter
*Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse,* by Jay Rubenstein – Christians out enemy-ing the enemy
*How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,* by Jason Stanley – the need for an epic past
*Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice,* by Tony Hoagland and Kay Cosgrove – creating a believable, human voice with the mind in motion
*Strangers from a Different Short: A History of Asian Americans,* by Ronald Takaki – the Asian moves to Hawaiian plantations