Madison BookBeat

Recent Episodes

Prof. Paige Glotzer, "How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960."

Posted September 28, 2020 • 00:53:03

Stu Levitan welcomes UW Prof. Paige Glotzer to discuss the origins of system racism in suburban housing developments on Madison BookBeat on WORT 89.9...

Rick Perlstein, "Reaganland"

Posted August 31, 2020 • 00:53:32

Stu Levitan welcomes Rick Perlstein to Madison Bookbeat to discuss his new book, Reaganland.

In the presidential campaign of...

Greg Mitchell, “The Beginning Or The End: How Hollywood – And America – Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb”

Posted August 10, 2020 • 00:53:14

“The Beginning or the End” was a B movie about the A bomb, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in February, 1947. It promised to disclose what it called...

Patrick W. Steele, “Home Of The Braves: The Battle For Baseball In Milwaukee”

Posted August 3, 2020 • 00:52:59

Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a great, even historic, baseball heritage, dating to the late nineteenth century. Mid-twentieth century, the minor...

Larry Tye, “Demagogue: The Life And Long Shadow Of Senator Joe McCarthy”

Posted July 27, 2020 • 00:53:18

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a farm boy from the Fox River Valley, grandson of Irish-German immigrants. Highly intelligent and industrious, a teenage...