Read Beat (...and repeat)

Steve Tarter
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Read Beat (...and repeat)

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. 

  1. "Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior" by David Hone

    6 DE NOV.

    "Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior" by David Hone

    Whenever the Jurassic Park/World franchise launches another movie entry, the national media runs to quote “a dinosaur guy” for a professional analysis. One of the guys they call is David Hone, a zoologist at Queen Mary University in London and the author of How Fast Did T.rex Run? and the Tyrannosaur Chronicles.Hone’s latest book, Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior (Princeton University Press), seeks to provide answers as to how dinosaurs may have moved, fed, grew, and reproduced.Deducing dinosaur ...

    21min
  2. "In the Shadow of the Big Top" by Maureen Brunsdale

    27 DE OUT.

    "In the Shadow of the Big Top" by Maureen Brunsdale

    A plaque standing in downtown Bloomington, Ill. pays tribute to that city’s circus heritage:“In the era before movies, television, and the internet, it was the circus that entertained us…For more than 80 years, spanning the 1870s until the 1950s, countless numbers of brave Bloomington men and women risked their lives to entertain massive crowds by performing aerial tricks high up on the flying trapeze.” After two local brothers, Howard and Fred Green installed a trapeze rigging in a Bloo...

    28min
  3. "Onward to Chicago" by Larry M. McClellan

    22 DE OUT.

    "Onward to Chicago" by Larry M. McClellan

    Decades before the Civil War, Illinois meant freedom for those seeking to escape slavery. Larry McClellan’s Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois is his third book exploring the phenomenon known as the Underground Railroad.McClellan, a resident of Crete, Illinois, some 35 miles south of Chicago, served as a professor of sociology at Governors State University, the Chicago school he helped found 54 years ago.“It was neither underground n...

    28min
  4. Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Fantasy of American Comics" by Daniel Worden

    9 DE OUT.

    Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Fantasy of American Comics" by Daniel Worden

    The comics page has long been a place for cars and energy. Comic strips like Otto Auto, Toonerville Folks, and Gasoline Alley related a nation that happily motored about in a car-centric world.Daniel Worden, an art professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, relates that history in Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics.“This book analyzes how comics represented this transition to fossil fuels from the late nineteenth century to the present, a transition that s...

    29min
  5. "The Golden Age of Red" by Doug Villhard

    8 DE OUT.

    "The Golden Age of Red" by Doug Villhard

    Doug Villhard knew that Red Grange might have been the greatest running back in the history of college football. He was also singularly responsible for helping make the National Football League an established professional league. But Villhard said what drew him to write the historical novel, The Golden Age of Red, was Grange’s alliance with C.C. Pyle, the man who became America’s first sports agent.The University of Illinois is the setting as the book takes off with Pyle running the Virginia ...

    30min
  6. "Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue" by Sonia Purnell

    5 DE OUT.

    "Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue" by Sonia Purnell

    It’s a story of World War II but it’s also a story of politics, power, seduction, and intrigue. Did I leave anything out?Pamela Churchill Harriman didn’t as Sonia Purnell’s book, Kingmaker, makes clear. The British biographer and journalist spent five years gathering information on Harriman’s life, including gaining access to a wealth of fresh research, interviews, and newly discovered sources. Harriman, who died in 1997, is well-known as Winston Churchill’s daughter-in-law, the 20-year-...

    27min
  7. "When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power of the Dawn of American Fashion" by Julie Satow

    13 DE SET.

    "When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power of the Dawn of American Fashion" by Julie Satow

    The 20th century American department store: a palace of consumption where shopping meant something more than simply getting what one needed. Every major city had at least one department store with a name that lives on even in this age of discounters and online buying.New York, of course, was the nation’s business capital, main market and fashion center. Julie Satow tells the story of how women helped develop the department store and fashion in this country even though men owned the build...

    6min
  8. "Our Nation at Risk" edited by Julian Zelizer and Karen Greenberg

    5 DE SET.

    "Our Nation at Risk" edited by Julian Zelizer and Karen Greenberg

    The overriding message you get after reading the essays collected by Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University history professor, and Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University Law School, is that all the voting issues of today (charges of voting fraud, voter suppression, and foreign interference with the vote) have been with us a long time.Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue outlines this country's less-than-illustrious pas...

    22min
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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. 

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    Steve Tarter
  • Anos de atividade
    2022 - 2024
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    187
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