Madison BookBeat – Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers Stu Levitan welcomes UW Professor Emeritus Dennis L. Dresang, author of Patrick J. Lucey: A Lasting Legacy. It’s the first biography of the late Governor of Wisconsin, and it’s just out from our good friends at the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. Patrick Joseph Lucey was […]
Bill Christofferson, “The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder...
Madison authors, topics, book events & publishers Stu Levitan welcomes former Madison journalist Bill Christofferson, author of The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson, himself a former Madisonian, from our friends at the University of Wisconsin Press, still located right here in Madison. As to Gaylord Nelson – Tom Brokaw calls […]
R. Richard Wagner, “We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin&#...
Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers On today’s show, R. Richard (Dick) Wagner, author of We’ve Been Here All Along: Wisconsin’s Early Gay History, covering the period from territorial days to the 1960s. It’s from our friends at the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, which in September will publish his companion volume, Coming Out, Moving […]
Jen Rubin, “We Are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a ...
Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers In 1934, in the depths of the first Great Depression, a Russian immigrant named Leon Rubin and a friend signed a lease for 2580 Broadway in NYC, between 97th and 98th Streets, and opened a radio repair shop they called Radio Clinic. They not only survived the depression, […]
Bobbie Malone & Bill C. Malone, “Nashville’s Songwrit...
Madison Authors, Topics, Book Events and Publishers On today’s show, two very special guests – WORT’s own Bill and Bobbie Malone, here to talk about their new book Nashville’s Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story. Diadorious Boudleaux Bryant was a classically trained violinist from southern Georgia who found he had more fun playing […]
Ben Sidran, “The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma”
Stu Levitan talks with Ben Sidran about his latest book, The Ballad of Tommy LiPuma, the legendary and beloved record producer and executive. When Tommy LiPuma was 16 years old, he was still in the eighth grade, and got an F in music. His future seemed ordained – he would become a barber in Cleveland, […]
