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Cross-Examining History
by Talmage Boston
Cross-Examining History is a podcast featuring interviews with the country’s leading historians conducted by nationally prominent interrogator Talmage Boston, author of Cross-Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers from the Experts About Our Presidents. He examines American history through the highly entertaining process of asking insightful questions that inspire his subjects to tell their best stories and provide their most important commentary about their best-selling books’ subjects.
Episodes
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Cross-Examining History Episode 101 - Rye Barcott
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Rye Barcott, an author, social entrepreneur, and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, on his new book Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 100 - Michael Cullinane
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Michael Cullinane, historian, award-winning author, and Walton Chair of Theodore Roosevelt Studies at Dickinson State University, on his new book Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 99 - Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano on their newest book Thomas Jefferson Survives. They are leading Jeffersonian scholars and have written 15 books on Jefferson between them.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 98 - Matthew Pinsker
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Matthew Pinsker on his newest book Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln. Matthew is the author of Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home, and Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 97 - Mount Vernon President and CEO Doug Bradburn
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Doug Bradburn, Director of George Washington's Mount Vernon, about America's first president and the beginnings of the country. Doug is an award-winning author and scholar of early American history.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 96 - Bret Baier
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Bret Baier, host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and chief political anchor for Fox, on his newest book The Case for America: An Argument on Behalf of Our Nation.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 95 - Richard Bell
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of author Richard Bell on his newest book The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. Richard Bell teaches Early American history at the University of Maryland.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 94 - Jon Meacham
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Jon Meacham on his newest book American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology. Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times Bestselling author.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 93 - Philip Taubman
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of author Philip Taubman on his new book McNamara at War. Robert McNamara was the US secretary of defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson at the height of the Cold War.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 92 - Richard Carwardine
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Richard Carwardine, Welsh historian and former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on his newest book Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 91 - Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Baker and Glasser are the bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington and the Divider.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 90 - Bret Baier
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Bret Baier, host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and chief political anchor for Fox, on his newest book To Rescue the American Spirit: Teddy Roosevelt and the Birth of a Superpower.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 89 - Bryan Burrough
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Bryan Burrough, journalist and best-selling author of eight books, including Barbarians at the Gate and his newest release, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 88 - Mark Updegrove
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Mark Updegrove, an American author, historian, journalist, and Presidential Historian for ABC News, about his latest book Make Your Mark: Lessons in Character from Seven Presidents. Mark Updegrove is also the president and CEO of…
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Cross-Examining History Episode 87 - Phil Gramm
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Phil Gramm on his new book The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism. Phil Gramm is a former US Senator of nearly two decades, an economist, and author.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 86 - Kostya Kennedy on Paul Revere's Ride
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Kostya Kennedy on his new book The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America. Kostya is a New York Times bestselling author of fantastic books on baseball greats Pete Rose, Jackie Robinson, and Joe DiMaggio.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 85 - The State of Texas Public Education - Sandy Kress + Pete Geren
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Sandy Kress, writer, teacher, and philanthropist, and Pete Geren, President and CEO of the Sid W. Richardson foundation, on freedom and opportunity in education.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 84 - Tevi Troy
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Tevi Troy, author of 5 presidential history books, on his latest book The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 83 - Garry Kasparov
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player of all time, about Russia, Ukraine, and protecting democracy worldwide. Garry Kasparov founded of the cross-partisan Renew Democracy Initiative in 2017.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 82 - Nigel Hamilton
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Nigel Hamilton, a British-born American biographer, historian, and author, about his new book Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 81 - Edward O'Keefe
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Edward F. O'Keefe on his new book The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President. O'Keefe is CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 80 - Lindsay Chervinsky
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Lindsay Chervinsky, American presidential historian and author of Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 79 - Marc Selverstone
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Marc Selverstone on his new book The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam. Marc Selverstone is a Cold War historian and author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 78 - Malcolm Gladwell
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Malcolm Gladwell on his new book Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers,...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 77 - Jeffrey Rosen
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Jeffrey Rosen, author of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. Rosen is president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and hosts We the People, a...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 76 - Hampton Sides
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Hampton Sides, author of non-fiction adventure stories set in war or depicting epic expeditions of discovery and exploration. His most recent book, The Wide Wide Sea, is an epic recount of the voyage of Captain James Cook…
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Cross-Examining History Episode 75 - Brody Mullins
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Brody Mullins, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author of The Wolves of K Street. Previously, Brody spent nearly two decades covering the intersection of business and politics for The Wall Street Journal.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 74 - Doris Kearns Goodwin
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 73 - Frank Cogliano
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Frank Cogliano, author and Professor of American History at the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former president of the Scottish Association for the Study of America.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 72 - Lawrence Wright
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize winning author and long time staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 71 - How The Best Did It With Talmage Boston
In this very special episode, Talmage Boston has the tables turned and is interviewed by Dale Petroskey. Talmage Boston is a trial lawyer, historian, and podcaster who just published his newest book, How The Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 70 - Tracy Daugherty on Larry McMurtry
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Tracy Daugherty, biographer and author of Larry McMurtry: A Life.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 69 - HW Brands
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of H.W. Brands, historian and author of Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics. H.W. Brands is Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History at the University of…
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Cross-Examining History Episode 68 - Pastures of the Empty Page and the Legacy of Larry McMurtry
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of George Getschow, editor of Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry. His book is a collection of essays offering an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove and The Last...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 67 - Ronald White
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Ronald C. White, historian and author of A. Lincoln, American Ulysses, and his new book On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. On Great Fields is a comprehensive biography of an American…
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Cross-Examining History Episode 66 - David Brooks
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of David Brooks on his new book How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. David is author of New York Times best sellers The Second Mountain and The Road to Character. He also writes for The New York...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 65 - Bret Baier
Talmage Boston invites Bret Baier back for a live cross-examination style interview on his new book To Rescue the Constitution: George Washington and the Fragile American Experiment. Bret Baier is the host of Special Report with Bret Baier on the Fox News Channel and chief political correspondent...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 64 - Jonathan Eig
Talmage Boston conducts a live cross-examination style interview of Jonathan Eig on his newest book King: A Life. Eig is the bestselling author of six books, including his previous book Ali: A Life.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 63 - Gregg Jarrett
Talmage Boston conducts a live cross-examination style interview of Gregg Jarrett. Gregg Jarrett is a Fox News commentator, attorney, and bestselling author of The Russia Hoax and his newest book, The Trial of the Century, about the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 62 - SC Gwynne
Talmage Boston conducts a live cross-examination style interview of S.C. Gwynne. S.C. Gwynne is the Pulitzer prize nominated author of Empire of the Summer Moon, The Perfect Pass, and Rebel Yell. His newest book, His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 61 - James Conroy
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of James Conroy on his new book The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War. James Conroy is a trial lawyer of 37 years turned award-winning author of narrative history.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 60 - Evan Thomas
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Evan Thomas on his new book Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II. Evan Thomas is an American journalist, historian, and author. He is the author of nine books, including two New York Times...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 59 - Philip Taubman
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Philip Taubman on his new book In The Nation's Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz. George P. Shultz was US Secretary of Labor, Secretary of the Treasury, and Secretary of State, and was pivotal in steering the great...
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Cross-Examining History Episode 58 - The Peacemaker With William Inboden and Dale Petroskey
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of William Inboden and Dale Petroskey on William Inboden's his new book, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, The Cold War, And The World On The Brink, about how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced…
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Cross-Examining History Episode 57 - Hole In The Roof with Burk Murchison and Michael Granberry
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Burk Murchison and Michael Granberry on their new book, Hole In The Roof, about The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the stadium that changed American sports forever.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 56 - Phil Gramm
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Phil Gramm on his newest book The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate. Phil Gramm is a former US Senator of nearly two decades, an economist, and author.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 55 - Ed Goeas
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Ed Goeas on his new book A Question of RESPECT: Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation which he co-authored with Celinda Lake. Goeas is an author, premier pollster, and political veteran of Washington DC of over 40 years.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 54 - Jon Meacham
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Jon Meacham on his newest book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and #1 New York Times Bestselling author.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 53 - Doug Brinkley
Talmage Boston holds a live cross-examination style interview of Doug Brinkley on his newest book Silent Spring Revolution. Brinkley is an author, historian, and Katherine Tsanoff Brown Professor in Humanities in the Department of History at Rice University.
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Cross-Examining History Episode 52 - Henry Kissinger on his book Leadership
In a program of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, Talmage Boston moderates a live event with the great Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and author of over a dozen books on diplomatic history and...
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Cross-Examining History is a podcast featuring interviews with the country’s leading historians conducted by nationally prominent interrogator Talmage Boston, author of Cross-Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers from the Experts About Our Presidents. He examines American history through the highly entertaining process of asking insightful questions that inspire his subjects to tell their best stories and provide their most important commentary about their best-selling books’ subjects.
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