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#1651: Baseball’s Leading Lady | 51%

#1651: Baseball’s Leading Lady | 51%

On this week’s 51%, the author of a book about baseball’s leading lady hopes girls read the story. In her new book, Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues, Andrea Williams tells the story of the woman at the center of the Black...

WAMC News Podcast | Episode 182

With New York state government in turmoil, Democratic Attorney General Tish James is emerging as a figure who might play an outsize role in state politics over the coming weeks and months. Once a close ally of embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo, James is now overseeing...

Author Dr. Roger Landry | WAMC’s In Conversation With

Author Dr. Roger Landry | WAMC’s In Conversation With

This week, we present an encore of WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Roger Landry discussing his book Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging. Photo courtesy of Greenleaf book press.

#1703: Elizabeth Kolbert “Under A White Sky” | The Book Show

#1703: Elizabeth Kolbert “Under A White Sky” | The Book Show

This week, Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. In her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert again writes about humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much...