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Hosted by Steve Tarter · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 290 episodes
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If you're like me, you like to know things but how much time to invest? That's the question. Here's the answer: Read Beat--Interviews with authors of new releases. These aren't book reviews but short (about 25-30 minutes on the average) chats with folks that usually have taken a lot of time to research a topic, enough to write a book about it. Hopefully, there's a topic or two that interests you. I try to come up with subjects that fascinate me or I need to know more about. Hopefully, listeners will agree. I'm Steve Tarter, former reporter for the Peoria Journal Star and a contributor to WCBU-FM, the Peoria public radio outlet, from 20202 to 2024. I post regularly on stevetarter.substack.com.
Steve Tarter hosts Read Beat (...and repeat), a history show with 290 episodes published.
Justin Glawe's new book, If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened , provides a reporter's account of some of the biggest news stories of the past decade. Starting with the chaos that followed the kill
To understand how the food business works, merely take a trip down the cereal aisle at your local supermarket. Cereal boxes represent food industry billboards: big, bold, and shouting for your (or your child's) attention
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“A new status quo has taken hold in Washington DC,” writes Jody Freeman, one of the Harvard Law School professors offering up short essays in America Unfinished: 250 Years of Law and Governance . “The federal government
Michael Grunwald provides another take on the climate crisis. It's not just about reducing exhaust fumes from gasoline-powered cars; it's about agriculture. The world's fossil-fuel problem is still number one, but agricu
It’s a museum dedicated to McLean County, home to Bloomington-Normal, but the displays are as broad-based and American as apple pie: Abraham Lincoln, Route 66, and baseball. The McLean County Museum of History, 200 Main
What was the most influential television show of the 1950s? I Love Lucy? Disneyland? Twilight Zone ? Few would probably choose Peter Gunn , the private-eye show starring Craig Stevens that producer Blake Edwards launched
Television’s growth in the 1950s mirrored the rise of radio in the 1930s. Unlike radio, however, TV hasn’t looked back, demanding our attention now more than ever in the 21st century. Back in the 50s, television was stil
The old west came at us in a rush on 50s TV: So many shows; so many cowboys; so much history; and so much left out. Megan Kate Nelson attempts to fill some of the gaps in our frontier history in The Westerners , a book t
If you have passed through small-town America in recent years, you may have noticed that, for the vast majority of towns, to use the phrase, “they ain’t what they used to be.” The downtown buildings may still be in place
With the story of the American Revolution being retold as we approach this country’s 250th anniversary, we hear a lot about George Washington, Paul Revere, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Paine, among the
Stephen Bezruchka has worked in the healthcare field for over 50 years. A graduate of Stanford Medical School, with a public health degree from Johns Hopkins University, Bezruchka began his career by setting up a communi
Benita VanWinkle likes going to the movies. She’s gone to theaters in every state of the union. But she doesn’t always stay for the main feature. Instead, VanWinkle, an art professor at High Point University in North Car
Don’t expect a big celebration on Juneteenth (June 19) from author Clyde W. Ford, who explains in A High Price for Freedom. “What a wonderful day that first Juneteenth must have been. Fetters gone. Shackles removed. Whip
If time travel ever becomes a thing, the Chicago World’s Fair held in 1893 might be one of the leading attractions for time travelers. Here was an exposition, spread across almost 700 acres in Jackson Park, some seven mi
The Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II brought hardship to many, especially if they were Jewish. As German rule tightened, Jewish families were at risk of being rounded up and sent to concentration camps like A
The horrors of the Holocaust were preceded in Nazi Germany by the conversion of five asylums and an abandoned jail, which were transformed into gas chambers, killing tens of thousands of patients. That’s a story that Sus
So where did we get all these letters that children learn as their ABC’s? Danny Bate has the answer in his book, “Why Q Needs U.” Born and raised in England and now living in Prague, Bate is a linguist, writer, broadcast
At a time when U.S.-Cuban relations have probably never been worse, there’s Barbara Caver’s “A Little Piece of Cuba,” a book that explores her own journey “to become Cubana-Americana.” Caver’s mother was born in Cuba bef
The saga of basketball star Larry Bird invariably culminates in the Bird-Magic Johnson story, two players who met in the most-watched basketball game of all time, the 1979 NCAA championship game between Indiana State and
Jeannette Rankin
Congresswoman
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Thomas Doherty
mysterious Link · Brandeis University
1 appearance on this show
Bradley Tusk
Political Strategist and Venture Capitalist at Tusk Ventures · Tusk Ventures Partners
1 appearance on this show
Danny Funt
journalist and author of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling · The Washington Post
1 appearance on this show
David Eliot
PhD candidate, author of Artificially Intelligent
1 appearance on this show
Carla Kaplan
Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature · Northeastern University
1 appearance on this show
Mark Greaney
NYT Best Selling Author
1 appearance on this show
Jenny Chan
founder, president, and executive director · Pacific Atrocities Education
1 appearance on this show
Bruce Schneier
security technologist, author, lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School, board member of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt · Harvard Kennedy School
1 appearance on this show
Ben Goldfarb
environmental journalist and author
1 appearance on this show
Peter Coleman
Columbia University
1 appearance on this show
Alexandra Natapoff
Harvard Law School
1 appearance on this show
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