70 episodes

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.

Cross-Examining History Talmage Boston

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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.

    Cross-Examining History Episode 71 - How The Best Did It With Talmage Boston

    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.

    • 56 min
    Cross-Examining History Episode 70 - Tracy Daugherty on Larry McMurtry

    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.

    • 49 min
    Cross-Examining History Episode 69 - HW Brands

    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 Texas at Austin and a two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

    • 1 hr 13 min
    Cross-Examining History Episode 68 - Pastures of the Empty Page and the Legacy of Larry McMurtry

    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 Picture Show.

    • 43 min
    Cross-Examining History Episode 67 - Ronald White

    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 soldier and leader who deserves to be known for more than his heroism in the Civil War.

    • 40 min
    Cross-Examining History Episode 66 - David Brooks

    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 Times.

    • 53 min

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