AOT #220: Sebastian Junger Podcasts War

Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and A Death in Belmont. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has been awarded a National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for journalism. Junger reads from and discusses...

AOT #218: Nathaniel Philbrick Podcasts The Last Stand

Historian Nathaniel Philbrick, the National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea, reads from and discusses his new book The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Little Bighorn and Custer are names synonymous in the...

AOT #217: Brad Meltzer Podcasts Heroes for My Son

Since the birth of his son in 2003, bestselling novelist Brad Meltzer (The Book of Fate, The Tenth Justice, The Book of Lies) has been collecting heroes from whom his son can learn how to live a good life. Melzer reads from and discusses his new book Heroes for My Son, in which he shares, with parents everywhere, the stories of 52 such heroes-from Dr. Seuss and Mr. Rogers to Mother Teresa and Mohandas Gandhi.