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The Wild West is full of myths, but behind the gunfights and honor codes is a deeper story about virtue and civilization. In today's episode, bestselling author Bryan Burrough joins Ryan to explore the truth behind America's gunfighter era. They discuss how honor culture took root in the lawless frontier, where violence was so common that gunfights were simply called “fights”, and what that reveals about the difference between performative strength and real virtue.Bryan Burrough is the author of Public Enemies, The Big Rich, Forget The Alamo, and most recently The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild. Bryan was a longtime correspondent at Vanity Fair and is now editor at large at Texas Monthly. Grab signed copies of The Gunfighters and Bryan's other books, Public Enemies, The Big Rich, and Forget The Alamo at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com/Follow Bryan on X @BryanBurrough and check out more of his work at his website www.bryanburrough.com
It's fitting that Marcus' biggest Stoic influence was his step-father because Father's Day is just 9 days away! The Dads on the Daily Dad team put together a list so that you don't have to go on a hunt to find a good gift for the Dads in your life
The Wild West gunfighter is a stock figure in dime novels and cornball westerns—but what is the reality of the six-shooter packing outlaw?The new book by Bryan Burrough, The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild, separates myths from truths about the violence of the Wild West. Many of the bloody shootouts happened in the streets of San Antonio.
On Tuesday's show: The 89th regular session of the Texas Legislature came to a close on Monday. We recap what passed, what didn't, the status of legislation on the governor's desk, and how it all might affect Texans.Also this hour: We visit a recent conference and expo for the robotics and autonomy industries held at the George R. Brown Convention Center.Then, author Bryan Burrough talks about his new book, The Gunfighters, which details the history of legendary gunfighters from the Wild West and the role Texas played in their stories.And we learn about an exhibit at Rice University's Moody Center for the Arts called Figurative Histories, in which several artists -- including three based in Houston -- explore the use of the human form in art, Black bodies in particular.
Bryan Burrough and I talk about, How Texas Made The West Wild
A unique history of an episode that has been deliberately memory-holed: the massive Left violence in the 1970s, directed at catalyzing a revolution in America. And, as always, what that history means for today. The written version of this review can be found here (https://theworthyhouse.com/2024/09/04/days-of-rage-americas-radical-underground-the-fbi-and-the-forgotten-age-of-revolutionary-violence-bryan-burrough/) We strongly encourage, in these days of censorship and deplatforming, all readers to bookmark our main site (https://www.theworthyhouse.com). You can also subscribe for email notifications. The Worthy House does not solicit donations or other support, or have ads. Other than at the main site, you can follow Charles here: https://twitter.com/TheWorthyHouse
We're sweeping up the glitter after awarding the 10th annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize to a trio of brilliant authors just a few days ago (more on that to come). We'll be back in your feed with more author interviews soon. In the meantime... When Kobo in Conversation hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj aren't reading books and interviewing authors for this show, they're working in the business of selling eBooks, audiobooks, and eReaders. In this episode, Nathan sat Michael down to get his takes on a bunch of book biz news making headlines now.* It's kind of an experiment, and we'll do it again soon—but we'll keep changing it up until we can make it feel right. Thoughts? Questions? Stuff you'd like us to cover? Email Nathan at nmaharaj@kobo.com or drop a comment below if you're listening on YouTube. Topics covered in this episode: What's a publisher, and why doesn't everybody self-publish now? Why does it seem like publishers buying each other all the time? Why are major players in high finance poking around in the book business so much lately? Why are big league publishing executives leaving to create new publishing companies—just to publish books by famous people? Costco's not going to sell books anymore: does it matter? Post-pandemic peril in Australian bookselling The "Spotify for audiobooks" before Spotify decided to be the Spotify for audiobooks Books mentioned: The Trial: The DOJ's Suit to Block Penguin Random House's Acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar The works of Ernest Hemingway, published by Scribner *Michael may have actually staged a one man studio sit-in, and Nathan rolled tape to get him to leave. Accounts differ.
We're sweeping up the glitter after awarding the 10th annual Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize to a trio of brilliant authors just a few days ago (more on that to come). We'll be back in your feed with more author interviews soon. In the meantime... When Kobo in Conversation hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj aren't reading books and interviewing authors for this show, they're working in the business of selling eBooks, audiobooks, and eReaders. In this episode, Nathan sat Michael down to get his takes on a bunch of book biz news making headlines now.* It's kind of an experiment, and we'll do it again soon—but we'll keep changing it up until we can make it feel right. Thoughts? Questions? Stuff you'd like us to cover? Email Nathan at nmaharaj@kobo.com or drop a comment below if you're listening on YouTube. Topics covered in this episode: What's a publisher, and why doesn't everybody self-publish now? Why does it seem like publishers buying each other all the time? Why are major players in high finance poking around in the book business so much lately? Why are big league publishing executives leaving to create new publishing companies—just to publish books by famous people? Costco's not going to sell books anymore: does it matter? Post-pandemic peril in Australian bookselling The "Spotify for audiobooks" before Spotify decided to be the Spotify for audiobooks Books mentioned: The Trial: The DOJ's Suit to Block Penguin Random House's Acquisition of Simon & Schuster by Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar The works of Ernest Hemingway, published by Scribner *Michael may have actually staged a one man studio sit-in, and Nathan rolled tape to get him to leave. Accounts differ.
The myth of the Alamo is ingrained in every Texan's heart and this week on The Dust Up, Al and Jay break down what really happened and talk about Phil Collins' messy divorce, tourist traps, and a psychic tells Jay's kids what they were in a previous life. Special thanks to Bryan Burrough whose book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth" is available wherever you get books. https://www.amazon.com/Forget-Alamo-Rise-Fall-American/dp/1984880098 Don't forget to Rate, Review, and Subscribe. Give us a five star review. It helps with the algorithm. We don't know how. Follow us on social media. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedustuppodcast/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDustUpTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thedustupX/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDustUpPod@almadrigal and @almadrigalcomedy on TikTok@jaylarsoncomedy everywhere Do you have a dust up in your life? Have you ever lost it on someone? You know you have. Call in, leave a message and we'll help settle your dust ups. Call us at (925) 727-3878 that's 925-727-DUSTOr write in at thedustuppod@gmail.com Theme song provided by @TheFlattrakkers
In this episode, author and journalist Bryan Burrough joins Bill and Cole Smead to discuss his classic work, "Barbarians at the Gate." The book is a detailed narrative of the high stakes battle for RJR Nabisco. Burrough explores the complex negotiations behind one of the largest leveraged buyouts in corporate history, highlighting the strategies by the major players involved.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comEli Lake is a longtime journalist, but we know him best for the tremendous “Re-Education With Eli Lake” podcast (Nancy's #1 pod pick in 2023). Lake has recently become a contributor to the Free Press, where he writes about this world as it explodes. Nancy and Sarah talked with him about the paradox of anarchists attending meetings, why writers can be precious little bitches, the upcoming DNC in Chicago, and how he made our outro song, or at least instructed the robot to do so.* “When I kiss you on your mask you understand”* What does PEN America do?* Eli and Nancy's Wikipedia pages are full of lies* “You're not the boss of me” as the spirit of America* Will things go full Baader-Meinhof at the Chicago DNC?* Don't go to journalism school, kids* Some love for Tom Wolfe, Bryan Burrough, Ask a Jew* Newsroom is the Jay Rosen of TV shows* “Norman Finkelstein is the Jew-y Jew who performs for anti-Semites”Plus, Lenny Bruce as a podcaster, Menachem Begin as OG punk rock, and is marijuana the Jewish kryptonite? Send us your letters! We want them! We're not the boss of you, but we'd still like you to become a paid subscriber.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit smokeempodcast.substack.comDays of Rage by Bryan Burrough is a modern classic. Nancy gushed over it so often Sarah finally read the thing, and damn, Nancy was right. Burrough is a longtime Vanity Fair contributor whose seven (!) books cover oil tycoons, Fortune 500 companies, and true crime, but we're here to talk about his 2015 epic on 70s radicalism and political violence, which was criminally under-rated upon its release but has become a cult classic. Trigger warning: This episode drips with fan-girling. Also included, in TIME-STAMP FORMAT (possibly for the last time):* Buc-ee's: Pro or con? (7:30)* George Mitchell, father of fracking, HL Hunt and Clint Murchison. (7:53)* How Days of Rage came about, and why Burrough wouldn't do it again. (12:30)* When the media ignores your politically inconvenient book (19:50)* Weather Underground (29:30)* How journalism fell apart (31:00)* Bernadine Dohrn: Radical-era bomb-thrower turned law professor (35:40)* Protests were about race: “We didn't really care about the war” (44:29)* BLM activism compared to 70s: “This is kiddie college” (49:30)* The Capitol was bombed by leftist activists?? (52:50)* “More people in the FBI went to jail because of the Weather Underground than people in the Weather Underground went to jail” (1:00:00)* “Our jobs are so much fun” (1:09:00)* The heist book Burrough just inhaled (1:10:00)Plus, why oil tycoons are low-hanging fruit, a podcast debate about George Floyd, the writer Burrough most wishes he could emulate — and more!Want more conversations like this? So do we. Become a paid subscriber, because things that matter are never free.
In this episode in the Presidential Series of TRANSFORMED, Dr. John Jackson – president of William Jessup University – lists many barbarians at the higher ed table, and even counts himself as one. He shares his FDA approach – flexible, distributed and accessible – that drives his leadership decisions at Jessup University, while running the institution like a business with a focused mission, understanding of their ideal customer, and an innovation imperative. References:Dr. John JacksonWilliam Jessup UniversityBarbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, 1989 Grace Ambassador, Dr. John Jackson, 2023Engage with host, Joe Gottlieb, at discussion@higher.digital at any time!
"The Rise and Fall of an American Myth"
Avec Brut, Guillaume Lacroix et ses associés ont réinventé le paysage médiatique en France et à l'international. Pourtant leur aventure ressemble à une série de coups de poker, frôlant la banqueroute plus d'une fois. Dans cet épisode, nous plongeons dans l'univers fascinant de Guillaume Lacroix, CEO et cofondateur de Brut. De Rider - son premier magazine de snowboard - jusqu'à la création de Brut, en passant par 50 minutes Inside, Guillaume a appris à détecter et façonner les tendances médiatiques. Au programme : L'ascension de Brut : Les coulisses de la success strory de Brut., des déconvenues aux centaines de millions de vues. Brut à l'international : Les stratégies mises en place pour conquérir des marchés tels que l'Inde, les États-Unis, la Chine ou encore l'Afrique. Devenir un média de confiance : Les défis de rester un média fiable à l'ère de la surinformation et des fake news. Modèle économique et levées de fonds : Décryptage du business model de Brut et plongée au cœur des levées de fonds (dont des anecdotes complètement folles avec Xavier Niel). L'Impact de l'IA : Comment Brut utilise l'IA pour façonner l'avenir de l'information. Un épisode inédit pour comprendre les nouveaux enjeux du monde des médias, l'évolution des modes de consommation et le bousculement de l'information et du métier de journaliste avec L'IA. TIMELINE : 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:12:30 - Présentation de Guillaume Lacroix 00:25:00 - Les débuts de Brut avec Xavier Niel 00:41:00 - Brut à l'international (Inde, US, Chine) 00:57:00 - Les nouvelles règles des réseaux sociaux 01:07:00 - Être un média de confiance 01:38:00 - Choisir les sujets 01:42:40 - Comment Brut gagne de l'argent 02:11:00 - Les levées de fonds de Brut 02:34:00 - Les droits d'image 02:35:30 - Vers un bousculement des médias avec l'IA 02:47:00 - Conclusion Avec Guillaume nous avons cité d'anciens épisodes de GDIY : #357 - Kev Adams - 15 ans sous les projecteurs : La persévérance de l'enfant terrible du PAF #240 - Hugo Travers - Journaliste + Youtuber = comment cartonner sur les réseaux sociaux #360 - Emmanuel Chain - 34 ans de Capital, la fabrique des émissions business Avec Guillaume, nous avons parlé de : Jacques Glénat Xavier Niel L'émission 50' Inside La dernière levée de fonds de Brut. L'équipe des 49ers de San Francisco Guillaume vous recommande de lire: Barbarians at the Gate, de Bryan Burrough et John Helyar La musique du générique vous plaît ? C'est à Morgan Prudhomme que je la dois ! Contactez-le sur : https://studio-module.com. Vous souhaitez sponsoriser Génération Do It Yourself ou nous proposer un partenariat ? Contactez mon label Orso Media via ce formulaire. Vous pouvez contacter Guillaume Lacroix sur Linkedin.
Best-selling author Bryan Burrough returns to his small-town Texas roots in the podcast, by Texas Monthly, called “Stephenville.” This season he explores a murder case that went cold for nearly two decades. To tell this amazing story, Bryan is armed with the newly discovered diary of the killer himself. Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2023 All Rights Reserved See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Murder Sheet has an exclusive report touching upon an infamous international case.In 1999, an American nurse named Ted Maher was accused of setting fire to a Monte Carlo penthouse and murdering billionaire Edmond Safra and a colleague named Vivian Torrente.In 2023, under the new name Jon Green, the same man was charged with criminal solicitation to commit murder.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Murder Sheet participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases.Reporting on Edmond Safra:The Los Angeles Times's reporting on American Express:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-04-28-fi-1108-story.htmlCoverage from Forbes on the Russia-related scandal: https://www.forbes.com/2007/05/17/bony-russia-lawsuit-biz-services-cx_lm_0517suit.html?sh=4dcae2bd21c1The Jewish Week's feature on Safra: https://www.hsje.org/Whoswho/Edmund_Safra/we_have_lost_our_crown.htmlThe New York Post's coverage of Safra's reputation: https://nypost.com/1999/12/14/safras-sleuth-pi-joe-mullen-saved-the-reputation-of-the-late-edmond-safra-and-has-cracked-many-a-case-for-this-decades-famous-and-infamous/The Washington Post's coverage of the American Express incident involving Safra: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1989/07/29/american-express-offers-4-million-and-apology/aafa682c-f909-420a-8cba-64c1171b8754/Coverage from The Times of Israel on Edmond Safra: https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-biography-probes-into-mysterious-backstory-of-billionaire-banker-edmond-j-safra/“A Banker's Journey: How Edmond J. Safra Built a Global Financial Empire” by Daniel Gross: https://www.amazon.com/Bankers-Journey-Edmond-Global-Financial/dp/1635767857?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=e421f9aad81731bd8c533450c2d33219&camp=1789&creative=9325"Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra" by Bryan Burrough: https://www.amazon.com/Vendetta-American-Express-Smearing-Edmond/dp/0060167599?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=daa163a4a68a59e1be75830f6856bef4&camp=1789&creative=9325“Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows” by Isabel Vincent: https://www.amazon.com/GILDED-LILY-Isabel-Vincent/dp/0061133949?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=703a51336f36524e9ccc1178740241e4&camp=1789&creative=9325Reporting on Ted Maher:The New York Times's story on the 1999 nursing strike: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/05/nyregion/nurses-plan-strike-monday-at-columbia-presbyterian.htmlThe New York Times's story on how the 1999 nursing strike was called off: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/10/nyregion/tentative-deal-averts-strike-by-nurses.htmlTime's reporting on Ted Maher: https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,992877,00.htmlSeacoastonline's report on Heidi Maher: https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/2002/11/21/praying-for-murder-acquittal/51281826007/Coverage from the New York Post on Ted Maher's release:https://nypost.com/2007/08/17/back-from-dead/The New York Post on Ted Maher's former wife's lawsuit against the Safra estate:https://nypost.com/2003/05/27/60m-safra-suit-killers-wife-hits-widow-over-police-grilling/The New York Post on Lily Safra's reaction to Ted Maher's release: https://nypost.com/2007/08/18/widows-pique-at-killers-release/The New York Post's coverage of Ted Maher's innocence claims: https://nypost.com/2007/10/14/tycoons-killer-my-frame-up/"Framed in Monte Carlo: How I Was Wrongfully Convicted for a Billionaire's Fiery Death” by Ted Maher, Bill Hayes, and Jennifer Thomas: https://www.amazon.com/Framed-Monte-Carlo-Prison-Murder/dp/1510755861?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=murdersheet-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=fddac60f9dea02c78ede9cf2a644bf01&camp=1789&creative=9325Coverage of the fire and homicides in Monaco:The Washington Post's coverage of the 1999 murders: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/pmextra/dec99/6/safra.htmThe NBC special on the case, with quotes from Torrente's daughter: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23767683The Guardian's report on the 1999 murders: https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2000/oct/29/features.magazine47Another Guardian report on the 1999 murders:https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/07/jonhenleyYet another Guardian report on the 1999 murders:https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/05/paulwebster.theobserverThe New York Post article on the 1999 murders:https://nypost.com/2002/11/18/safra-choke-twist/Dominick Dunne for Vanity Fair on the killings: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2000/12/dunne200012MSNBC on the 1999 murders: https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20151213_000000_Mystery_of_the_Billionaire_BankerCNN on the 1999 murders:http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/12/ctv.monaco.trial/index.htmlThe Wall Street Journal on the 1999 murders: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB94441779970529365Court TV's timeline of the 1999 murders: https://web.archive.org/web/20080204074511/http://www.courttv.com/trials/monaco/chronology.htmlNewsweek's coverage of the 1999 murders: https://www.newsweek.com/bad-bet-monte-carlo-151519Coverage from CBS of Ted Maher's trial: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/part-ii-an-american-on-trial/Additional coverage from CBS of Ted Maher's trial: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/murder-in-monaco-an-american-on-trial/A report from the Times on the trial of Ted Maher: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/monaco-police-in-dock-for-billionaire-s-death-mk7v5nrb8crA report from The Telegraph on the trial of Ted Maher: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/monaco/1414023/Gilded-Lily-faces-her-husbands-killer.htmlCoverage of the dognapping incident involving Jon Green:KRQE's coverage of the dognapping: https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/carlsbad-dognapping-man-with-bizarre-past-accused-of-taking-ex-wifes-dogs/KRQE on the return of the missing dogs: https://www.krqe.com/news/stolen-search-and-rescue-dogs-reunited-with-carlsbad-woman/Fox San Antonio's story on the rescue of the rescue dogs: https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/dognapping-suspect-wanted-on-multiple-charges-arrested-after-extensive-manhuntNBC's coverage of Jon Green's legal issues: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/man-mysterious-past-facing-multiple-charges-run-after-dognapping-carlsbad-n1295803The Carlsbad Current Argus on the missing dogs: https://www.currentargus.com/story/news/crime/2022/06/15/missing-carlsbad-search-and-rescue-dogs-found-safe-in-texas/65361052007/A feature from the American Veterinary Medical Association mentioning Dr. Kim Lark:https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2011-09-15/honoring-dogs-911Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC .See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1 What's Barbarians at the Gate"Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco" is a non-fiction book written by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. It was first published in 1990 and provides an in-depth account of the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco, which at the time was the largest corporate takeover in American history. The book delves into the personalities, strategies, and financial maneuvers involved in the battle for control of the company between the management team led by CEO F. Ross Johnson and the rival buyout firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Forstmann Little & Co. It sheds light on the high stakes world of corporate deal-making during the 1980s and offers a detailed analysis of the events leading up to the ultimate sale of RJR Nabisco.Chapter 2 Why is Barbarians at the Gate Worth Read"Barbarians at the Gate" by Bryan Burrough is worth reading for several reasons:1. Gripping storytelling: The book provides a compelling narrative of the hostile takeover battle between two major U.S. companies, RJR Nabisco and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). Burrough takes the reader through the complex negotiations, high-stakes deals, and dramatic events that unfolded during this period. The suspenseful storytelling keeps readers engaged throughout, making it an exciting read.2. Insider perspective: Burrough has conducted extensive research and interviews with key players involved in the events, including CEOs, board members, lawyers, and investment bankers. This insider perspective allows readers to gain an in-depth understanding of the motivations, strategies, and dynamics that drove the takeover process. It provides an invaluable glimpse into the corporate world and the various personalities that shape it.3. Insight into financial world: "Barbarians at the Gate" provides a detailed look into the world of investment banking, leveraged buyouts, and corporate finance. Burrough explains complex financial concepts in a way that is accessible to both finance professionals and general readers. The book offers a unique opportunity to learn about the intricacies of Wall Street and the strategies employed by dealmakers.4. Cultural commentary: Beyond the financial aspect, the book also serves as a commentary on the excesses and greed prevalent in the corporate culture of the 1980s. It sheds light on the extravagant lifestyles of top executives, the obsession with short-term profits, and the impact on employees and society as a whole. "Barbarians at the Gate" provides valuable insights into the world of corporate America during that era.5. Historical significance: The events depicted in "Barbarians at the Gate" were highly influential in shaping the corporate landscape and Wall Street practices. The RJR Nabisco takeover set a record as the largest leveraged buyout of its time and became a symbol of the excesses and risks associated with corporate raiders. The book delves into the strategies employed by KKR and the lessons learned from the deal, making it historically significant for those interested in the evolution of the financial industry.Overall, "Barbarians at the Gate" is worth reading for its gripping storytelling, insider perspective, valuable insights into the financial world, cultural commentary, and historical significance. It appeals to anyone interested in finance, corporate affairs, or simply enjoys a well-told, real-life drama.Chapter 3 Barbarians at the Gate Summary"Barbarians at the Gate" is a bestselling non-fiction book written by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. It details the events surrounding the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco, a prominent American food and tobacco company, in the late 1980s.The book...
From the moment Susan Woods was found dead at home in the summer of 1987, everyone in Stephenville, Texas—including the police—was certain she'd been killed by her estranged husband.That left the real culprit free to prey on others. In "Stephenville," best-selling author Bryan Burrough returns to his small-town Texas roots to explore a murder case that went cold for nearly two decades. Only now, after discovering a voice from beyond the grave, can the whole story finally be told—a story about the secrets that got buried, and how some folks in this town helped keep them that way.From the Texas Monthly team behind "Tom Brown's Body" comes another true story of crime, suspicion, and life in small-town Texas. Coming June 20.
Review of the book"Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth" by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 5:30 pm.
Spaceflight News— LunaH-Map struggles to enter lunar orbit (spacewatch.global) (PDF: static1.squarespace.com VIA busek.com) (PDF: digitalcommons.usu.edu)— Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) enters lunar orbit (space.com)— Hakuto-R M1 successfully completes second maneuver (spaceref.com) (ispace-inc.com VIA hobbyspace.com)— Chandrayaan-3 fully integrated (indiatoday.in) (indiatimes.com)Short & Sweet— China to expand Wenchang spaceport (spacenews.com)— Impulse Space has a mission (spacenews.com)Questions, Comments, Corrections— Dennis is reading Dragonfly by Bryan Burrough (bryanburrough.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— 14 Jan, 2009: Russian thruster firing shakes the ISS (spacenews.com) (space.com) (en.wikipedia.org) (nbcnews.com) (youtube.com)— Next week (1/17 - 1/23) in 1968: Fire in the hole
In the latest episode of CFO 4.0, Hannah Munro talks to Mark Gandy, creator of the Financial Operating System and Host of the CFO Bookshelf podcast. A finance pioneer, Mark has worked in several finance positions during his career including Corporate Controller, VP of Finance, and CFO. Together Hannah and Mark talk about their shared interest in reading and discuss their book recommendations for finance this Summer. Also covered on this episode:Hannah & Mark's favourite genre of booksWhy people in finance should embrace their creative sideMark's top book recommendations for finance What books should CFOs be reading on their next beach holiday What you can learn from narrative non-fiction booksLinks referenced in this episode:Mark Gandy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markagandy/ CFO Bookshelf: https://cfobookshelf.com/category/podcast/ Book mentioned in this episode:Barbarians at the gate - Bryan Burrough and John HelyarCrime & Punishment - Fyodor DostoevskyUncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher StoweDrive – Daniel H. PinkA whole new mind – Daniel H. PinkReversing the slide – James SheinEndurance – Brian SandersThe great game of business - Bo Burlingham and Jack StackThe effective executive - Peter DruckerCEO: Building a $400 Million Company from the Ground Up – Sandra Kurtzig Open – Andre AgassiThe Wisdom of Finance - Mihir A. DesaiThe secret life of groceries - Benjamin LorrBoys in the boat - Benjamin LorrThe Warehouse – Rob HartGhost in the wires – Kevin MitnickWhy – Simon Sinek Atomic Habits – James ClearNudge – Richard ThalerOne minute manager - Ken Blanchard and Spencer JohnsonNoise – Cass R. Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, and Olivier SibonyDeep work – Cal NewportSo good they can't ignore you – Cal NewportAll change – the project leaders secret handbook - Eddie ObengThe living leader – Penny Ferguson
It's Reader's Choice, so Bonnie and PJ shared their reads for the month. Like a good mystery that ties in to a library? Or maybe history is more your style, fiction or non-fiction. Let's listen in on the reviews. The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill Forget the Alamo: the rise and fall of an American myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford “Lively and absorbing. . .” — The New York Times Book Review “Engrossing.” —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of […] The post Chris Voss Podcast – Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford appeared first on Chris Voss Official Website.
My guest today is Troy Johnson. Troy is an 8-figure Amazon seller with 2 Amazon Exits. He co-founded a very popular Amazon tool Seller.tools that helps sellers to monitor their products and also launch them using Manychat flows connected to visa gift cards, and currently is an Advisor to Carbon 6 which is a software suite helping e-commerce sellers in their journeys. Today we are going to talk about Troy's Journey and pick his brains on how to succeed in Amazon FBA in 2022. Link from the episode: Carbon 6 - https://www.carbon6.io Book Troy Recommends: “Rework” by Jason Fried and Heinemeier Hansson - https://www.amazon.com/Rework?tag=10mj-20 “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Tim Ferriss - https://www.amazon.com/The-4-Hour-Workweek?tag=10mj-20 “Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco” by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar - https://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-At-The-Gate?tag=10mj-20 Connect with Troy: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/troyjohnston Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/troyjohnston Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/troyjohnston Personal Website - Websites and Company Social Media: Seller Tools - https://seller.tools LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/sellertools Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SellerToolsApp Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/seller.tools Twitter - https://twitter.com/SellerToolsLLC ANATOLY's TOOLS: Product Development: Helim10 - I use it for Product Research, Keyword tracking and Listing Optimization . SPECIAL DEAL: Get 50% your first month or 10% every month: http://bit.ly/CORNERSIIH10 Pickfu - I use it for split testing all of my products and for validation ideas . SPECIAL DEAL: First split test 50% 0ff https://www.pickfu.com/10mj Trademarking: Trademark Angels - For all my trademarking needs. SPECIAL: Mention Anatoly and 10MJ podcast and get 10% Off your trademark. HR: Fiverr - I hire my 3dMockup person and images label designer here on Fiverr - http://bit.ly/10mjFIVERR Upwork - I hire people long term on Upwork - upwork.com Loom.com - for creating SOP's, I record everything on Loom and give to my VA's Keepa.com - to track historical data such as prices ANATOLY's 3 Favorite Business Books: DotCom Secrets by Russel Brunson - I think this is a must read for every online entrepreneurs - http://bit.ly/10MJDotCom 4 hours work week by Tim Ferriss - This book changed my life and made me become an entrepreneur - http://bit.ly/10MJ4WW The Greatest Salesman In The World by Og Mandino - Old book but it goes to the core of selling - http://bit.ly/10MJGREATSM DISCLAIMER: Some Links are affiliate, it costs you nothing, but helps to keep this podcast on the float Have questions? Go to https://www.10millionjourney.com Follow us on: Instagram: @10millionjourney
Tillsammans med sina fyra söner var hon en av frontfigurerna i det amerikanska 30-talets gangstervärld. Hon sades vara hjärnan bakom deras brutala liga, men i själva verket tycks hennes person vara lika svårfångad som svartmålad. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Julia Grauers programledareEmilia Mellberg manus och researchMårten Andersson producentPablo Leiva Wenger scenuppläsareJulia Öjbrandt ljuddesign och slutmix Medverkar gör också Lars Lampers, journalist med inriktning på kriminalhistoria.Vill du veta mer om Ma Barker? Här är några av de böcker som ligger till grund för avsnittet:Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother av Chris Enss och Howard Kazanjian Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota av Deborah Frethem och Cynthia Schreiner Smith Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34 av Bryan Burrough
Tillsammans med sina fyra söner var hon en av frontfigurerna i det amerikanska 30-talets gangstervärld. Hon sades vara hjärnan bakom deras brutala liga, men i själva verket tycks hennes person vara lika svårfångad som svartmålad. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Julia Grauers programledareEmilia Mellberg manus och researchMårten Andersson producentPablo Leiva Wenger scenuppläsareJulia Öjbrandt ljuddesign och slutmix Medverkar gör också Lars Lampers, journalist med inriktning på kriminalhistoria.Vill du veta mer om Ma Barker? Här är några av de böcker som ligger till grund för avsnittet:Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother av Chris Enss och Howard Kazanjian Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota av Deborah Frethem och Cynthia Schreiner Smith Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34 av Bryan Burrough
Tillsammans med sina fyra söner var hon en av frontfigurerna i det amerikanska 30-talets gangstervärld. Hon sades vara hjärnan bakom deras brutala liga, men i själva verket tycks hennes person vara lika svårfångad som svartmålad. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Julia Grauers programledareEmilia Mellberg manus och researchMårten Andersson producentPablo Leiva Wenger scenuppläsareJulia Öjbrandt ljuddesign och slutmix Medverkar gör också Lars Lampers, journalist med inriktning på kriminalhistoria.Vill du veta mer om Ma Barker? Här är några av de böcker som ligger till grund för avsnittet:Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother av Chris Enss och Howard Kazanjian Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota av Deborah Frethem och Cynthia Schreiner Smith Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34 av Bryan Burrough
Tillsammans med sina fyra söner var hon en av frontfigurerna i det amerikanska 30-talets gangstervärld. Hon sades vara hjärnan bakom deras brutala liga, men i själva verket tycks hennes person vara lika svårfångad som svartmålad. Redaktionen för detta avsnitt består av:Julia Grauers programledareEmilia Mellberg manus och researchMårten Andersson producentPablo Leiva Wenger scenuppläsareJulia Öjbrandt ljuddesign och slutmix Medverkar gör också Lars Lampers, journalist med inriktning på kriminalhistoria.Vill du veta mer om Ma Barker? Här är några av de böcker som ligger till grund för avsnittet:Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother av Chris Enss och Howard Kazanjian Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang in Minnesota av Deborah Frethem och Cynthia Schreiner Smith Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34 av Bryan Burrough
Doug Conant is an internationally renowned business leader, and both a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. Doug has honed his leadership craft turning around companies at the most senior levels—first as President of the Nabisco Foods Company, then as CEO of Campbell Soup Company, and later as Chairman of Avon Products. In 2011, he founded ConantLeadership: a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century. Throughout his career, Doug's motto has been, “to win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace”. This focus on people, workplace trust, and clarity of purpose have been critical factors to delivering extraordinary business results for the companies he led. In this episode we discuss: Why you must first win in the workplace if you want to win in the marketplace The secret to employee engagement The blueprint for becoming a great leader Key Takeaways: Leaders need followers, and followers are earned. To earn followers, you need to invite them in, and they need to know—and feel—they are wildly supported by you. If you are a leader, you invite others to join you by taking the time to listen, by being intentional, and by crafting your leadership plan. Being a leader of an organization is hard. There is no “right” way to be a leader. The most effective leaders take the time to understand their values, lead in alignment with their values, and have the courage to lead as themselves. You can't be an authentic leader if you're trying to lead like someone else. Everyone has the power to take accountability for how they show up to work, and in life. And on top of that, everyone is accountable for how they show up, whether they take accountability or not. Whether you're the CEO, a manager or an entry-level person, the way you show up influences those around you. It's worth being intentional about the influence you want to have. References: You can engage with Doug on LinkedIn Conant Leadership The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership by Bill George and Peter Sims Stephen Covey Barbarians at the Gate is the movie about KKR's leveraged buyout of Nabisco (based on the book by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar) Maslow's hierarchy of needs comes from Abraham Maslow's essay “A Theory of Human Motivation” Catalyst's page on the Campbell Soup Company's “Winning in the Workplace, Winning in the Marketplace, Winning With Women” initiative Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins Connect & Share: If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading them! If this episode resonated with you, I ask you to send it to a friend. Help bring even more visibility to these leaders that are using business as a force for good! Subscribe to the Purpose and Profit newsletter to make sure you don't miss future episodes. This podcast is for you, the listener. I'd love to hear what resonated with you, or if you have a suggestion on who would be a great guest for this show. Please send me a note at info@KathyVarol.com.
In "The Demon Next Door," best-selling author, Bryan Burrough uncovers a dark secret from his hometown of Temple, TX. Danny Corwin was a serial rapist and murderer who should have never should have evaded justice and been given the opportunity to live in general population. But with the right family connections and a lot of luck, he was free to wreak havoc on his little town, raping and killing several women.Thanks for checking us out. If you like what you're hearing, leave us a glowing review to help more people find our podcast.Have a suggestion for a future episode? Email us at momswhotalkcrime@gmail.comFollow us on Social Media for Episode extras and Bonus contentFacebook: www.facebook.com/momswhotalkcrimeInstagram: www.instagram.com/momswhotalkcrimeCheck out the whole story on audible!!Episode Source Material:· Audible Original: The Demon Next Door, by best-selling author, Bryan Burroughhttps://www.audible.com/pd/The-Demon-Next-Door-Audiobook/B07NDHNX8Z
July conversation with writer Chris Tomlinson on his book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford for Penguin Press. Suggested by Wally, Joel and Mark.
Join us as we talk with Chris Tomlinson about his new book, Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. In our conversation, Chris explains the true story of the battle and walks us through the creation of the Alamo myth in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear for some, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. Join us for this riveting and important conversation.
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In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance
In this installment of our Recall this Buck series (check out our earlier conversations with Thomas Piketty, Peter Brown and Christine Desan), John and Elizabeth talk with Daniel Souleles, anthropologist at the Copenhagen Business School and author of Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality (Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press 2019). Dan's work explores the world of private equity "guys" (who are indeed mostly guys) and the ways they are "suspended in webs of significance [they themselves have] spun" as Clifford Geertz puts it. Further, he explores the ways we are all suspended in these webs through the immense buying and managing power of private equity firms. Private equity investors buy out publicly traded companies, often through enormous debt (which is why these deals used to be called "leveraged buyouts" or LBOs), manage the companies and then sell them. They argue they are creating value by cutting fat in management; typically workers bear the brunt of the debt while executives--and the private equity firm and lawyers and others servicing the deal--receive hefty payments. Dan pulls off a tough feat in his book, helping us see the concerns and motivations of people he's working with as understandable and the people themselves as reasonable and even likeable, while also maintaining his own view of private equity as, generally speaking, a noxious force in society. We end with a discussion of the Occupy movement and how it helped to change public conversations about inequality and the power of finance (another angle on the themes we tackled in our earlier "Brahmin Left" conversations). Mentioned in this episode: Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gates: The Fall of NJR Nabisco Karen Ho Liquidated; ethnography of Wall Street, and of "smartness" Edwin Lefèvre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, (John misremembered the title as Confessions of a Stockjobber) Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (1991) The transcript for this episode is here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
On this weeks Book(ish) I sit down with Associate Professor (Finance) at UWA Lee Smales to discuss Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. Our conversation includes growing up sharing a few similarities with Billy Elliot, when debt wizardry does crazy things, and why you can now get a decent coffee in LA. Enjoy!Books discussedAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneBarbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John HelyarGreat Expectations by Charles DickensThe Collected Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFollow Bookish Comedy on Twitter and Instagram.Sign up to our newsletter here. Join our facebook group here.You can now physically send us stuff to PO BOX 7127, Reservoir East, Victoria, 3073.Want to help support the show?Sanspants+ | Podkeep | USB Tapes | Merch See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
In the 1960's the Weathermen were no doubt the tip of the spear for the political activism that sparked the most violent period of domestic terrorism in history of the United States. According to time magazine, in a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an 2,500 bombings on American soil, an avg of 5 per day. You may expect members of the Weather Underground to all be locked up in Guantanamo Bay or at least be on a no-fly list with Nick Fuentes. Bill Ayers, Kathy Boudin, Bernadine Dohrn, and Cathy Wilkerson all entered quickly into academia with little to no Jail time. David Gilbert, thanks to his friends in the democratic party, will be eligible for parole in October 2021. Today we discuss Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough. Get an Odysee account. If you use our invite link (and validate your email address, even a fake one), we'll both get free LBC (which you can use to donate to your favorite creators.): https://odysee.com/$/invite/@cave_time Live every Saturday, pm EST on Odysee/LBRY: https://odysee.com/@cave_time Join the new Discord: https://discord.gg/EpNt9cGHjf Live every Saturday, 2:30 pm EST on Odysee/LBRY: https://odysee.com/@cave_time Join the new Discord: https://discord.gg/EpNt9cGHjf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSLMTube Twitter: https://twitter.com/cave_time Any podcast platform: search "The Cave of Time" This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm
The epic, oft-told origin story of Texas centers on the Lone Star State's most infamous battle: the Battle of the Alamo, where American heroes such as Davy Crockett fought to the death against the Mexican army to secure Texas's independence. The only problem, according to the writer and journalist Bryan Burrough, is that this founding legend isn't all true. In June, Burrough and two other Texan writers set out to debunk the myth of the Alamo, only to find themselves in an unexpected battle with Texans still trying to protect their state's revered origin story. “The Anglo power structure here, which still dominates politics and the media,” Burrough says, “can clearly see that if the myth melts away, other things could begin to melt away as well.” This week on The Experiment: how a history book ignited a ferocious debate over Texas's founding legend, and how this battle climbed the ranks all the way up to the Texas GOP. This episode's guest is Bryan Burrough, a co-author of Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth. A transcript of this episode is available. Be part of The Experiment. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at theexperiment@theatlantic.com. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Julia Longoria. Editing by Katherine Wells. Fact-check by William Brennan. Sound design by David Herman. Music by Parish Council (“Marmalade Day,” “Leaving the TV on at Night,” and “Mopping”) and Keyboard (“The World Eating”), provided by Tasty Morsels. Additional music by Joe Plourde, Sam Spence (“Overland” and “River Crossing”), and Antonín Dvořák (“Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: I. Allegro con brio”). Additional audio from @ThisIsTexasFF; This Is Texas Freedom Force; KXAN; Walt Disney Productions, via Mabay Aleya and The Shadow; and Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Bryan Burrough has been writing books digging into big business, crime and American Scandal for over 30 years. After our chat about “Forget The Alamo” he was kind enough to stick around for 20 minutes or so and talk to us about his writing, movie adaptations, and some specifics about his books. He is the author of 7 books: “Barbarians at The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco” Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (1998) Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34 (2004) The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes (2009) Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (2015) Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (2021, with Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford) Two of his books have been turned into movies. “Barbarians At The Gate” was produced by HBO in 1993. The film won both the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie and the Golden Globe for Best Television Movie while James Garner won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. “Public Enemies” was distributed by Universal Pictures in 2009. Directed by Michael Mann, and starring Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Stephen Dorff and Stephen Graham. It grossed $214 Million at the box office. Bryan's Twitter: @BryanBurrough Follow All Our Damn Accounts! Podcast Instagram Podcast Twitter Dave Instagram Dave Twitter Chris Twitter Chris Instagram Show email: nowmorethaneverpod@gmail.com
This is Season 2, Episode 30, and our book for this week is an Audible exclusive: “The Demon Next Door'' by Bryan Burrough. After reading it, I'm right there with the author wondering why any of this happened, and whether any of it could have been prevented. My guest today is our own Unlovely Truth Tribe chaplain, Lori Prather. We're going to get her take on bad people blending in at church and ways to reach out to people that a lot of churches choose to ignore. In 2005, the FBI held a symposium in San Antonio, Texas, where they dropped some bombshell information. According to their research, the majority of serial killers are not the loners or misfits we tend to think they are. In fact, they're hiding in plain sight, blending right in. You might even know one. Author Bryan Burrough hadn't known about his schoolmate Danny Corwin's multiple murders until they were both well into middle age. He became obsessed with understanding why Danny nearly killed a girl in Temple, Texas, when he was in 10th grade. Burrough also wanted to know why Danny Corwin's family, the local Presbyterian Church they attended, the mayor, and local newspaper all worked so hard to keep Danny's activities a secret. If they hadn't, would his later victims have lived? If you want to stand out as a true crime hero, be sure to visit the links below and take advantage of all of these resources. Visit my website and join my email list Connect with me on FaceBook And Instagram! Get "The Demon Next Door" from Audible Read more about Danny Corwin Every 68 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. And every 9 minutes, that victim is a child.
This week on Talk World Radio: Remembering the Alamo, or -- better yet -- forgetting it. Our guest Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of seven books, including the New York Times #1 best-selling Barbarians at the Gate (with John Helyar) and Public Enemies. He is co-author of a terrific new book called Forget the Alamo.
Tune in to hear Shawn and Ryan break things down with Jason Stanford, co-author of New York Times bestselling book, Forget the Alamo. Stanford discusses how he and co-authors Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson came to write this historical piece and the most recent events that led to its flying off library shelves.If you're still waiting for your copy, Forget the Alamo challenges misconceptions of Texas's past and the fight for independence aka what all kids in Texas learn in 7th grade history class. On Deconstructing Dallas, myth-buster and history buff Jason Stanford dives into how some of these myths were created and the politics enforcing them, what it means to teach our kids history as good and bad, and the fight that he and Forget the Alamo is a part of today. Sign up for the Experiment Newsletter here: https://jasonstanford.substack.com/And follow Jason Stanford on Twitter: @JasStanford
With the Bark Off: Conversations from the LBJ Presidential Library
The legend of the battle of the Alamo is not only an intrinsic part of Texas lore but is enshrined in the American imagination—a band of fiery rebels fighting for independence who die as martyrs in the cause of liberty. But a new book, “Forget the Alamo!” argues that the Alamo myth is just that—an allegory that tells us what we want to believe about the Alamo, but not what actually happened. Written by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, “Forget the Alamo!” has not been without its critics. A recent event at the Bullock Texas State History Museum was cancelled hours beforehand by Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who called it a “fact-free rewriting of Texas history.” Guest host LBJ Library Director Mark Lawrence talks to two of the book's authors—Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson—about what history really says about the Battle of the Alamo and why the myth that so many want to preserve has endured so long.
In this episode librarians Andy, Briony, and Sam discuss their most recent reads over the summer. In this episode we talked about: The Ninth Metal by Benjamin Percy The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett Graff The Liar's Dictionary by Eley Williams Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson Girl in the Walls by A. J. Gnuse We also mentioned: In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
When I was a kid I learned about the Alamo. It's 1836. Houston said to Travis, fortify the Alamo. Volunteers came from across the continent to fight and die for the dream of a free and independent Texas. Like the Ballad said, One hundred and eighty five holding back five thousand.In the southern part of Texas, near the town of San Antone, like a statue on his pinto rides a cowboy all alone. And he sees the cattle grazing where a century before Santa Anna's guns were blazing and the cannons used to roar. And his eyes turn sorta misty and his heart begins to glow and he takes his hat off slowly. To the men of the Alamo. To the thirteen days of glory at the siege of Alamo.What a load of bullshit.The Alamo and its effect on Texas, the country, and Phil Collins, is the subject of the new book Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of An American Myth. Two of its three authors are here with me today, Bryan Burrough and Chris Tomlinson. They're both writers and they're both from Texas, so you can be sure that what you're about to hear is the gospel truth.Angry Planet has a substack! Join the Information War to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear more conversations about a world in conflict.https://angryplanet.substack.com/subscribeYou can listen to Angry Planet on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is angryplanetpod.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/angryplanetpodcast/; and on Twitter: @angryplanetpod. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Writer Chris Tomlinson on his book "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth," co-written with Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford for Penguin Press. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623832/forget-the-alamo-by-bryan-burrough-chris-tomlinson-and-jason-stanford/
(7/7/21/) Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. And no piece of history is more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. But as Vanity Fair correspondent Bryan Burrough reveals in his new book Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, co-authored with Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, that so-called historical retelling is nothing more than a fantasy. Join us for a clear-eyed look at this legendary chapter in American history in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.
My guest this week is Jason Stanford. His book, which he wrote with authors Chris Tomlinson and Bryan Burrough, is called “Forget the Alamo: the Rise and Fall of an American Myth.” It was published earlier this month by Penguin Press and is an Amazon Bestseller.Jason also publishes a very good weekly newsletter called the Jason Stanford Experiment and I recommend it. Subscribe at jasonstanford.substack.comJason and I talked about how what we know of as the story of the battle of the Alamo came to be, why its been only fairly recently that those 13 days in Texas history have been subject to academic rigor and the impact Phil Collins has had on the current debate — yes, that Phil Collins.
Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed into law the “1836 Project” to promote Texas history. Author Bryan Burrough joins host Krys Boyd to talk about arguably the state's most famous story – The Alamo – and why its role in preserving slavery is often written out of Texas lore. His book, written with co-authors Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, is “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth.”
FORGET THE ALAMO? Not in this lifetime, Bubba! Ho, ho! Best selling authors Bryan Burrough and Jason Stanford join us this week to discuss their new lightning rod-cum-New York Times Notable book for the month of June “Forget The Alamo.” Stanford and Burrough (along with third author Chris Tomlinson, who had a scheduling conflict) discuss the factors that led them to write their book, the differences between The Heroic Anglo Narrative and historical truths, and how The Alamo is shorthand for deep seated pain and racism for many of their Tejano brothers. The book is thoroughly sourced, well written, and thought provoking – if you read it, you'll be taken by many of their descriptions of the battle of the Alamo, and the brutality of life on The Frontier, and the making of Texas as an independent nation and as a state. It's a complicated story that has been simplified into something like a biblical parable – and no one ever gets mad about what's in The Bible do they? You can order the book HERE Subscribe to Jason's Substack Chris Tomlinson's columns Bryan Burrough's website Jason Stanford's Twitter Bryan Burrough's Twitter Chris Tomlinson's Twitter Podcast Instagram Podcast Twitter Dave Instagram Dave Twitter Chris Twitter Chris Instagram
Remember the Alamo? According to Texas lore, it's the site in San Antonio where, in 1836, about 180 Texan rebels died defending the state during Texas' war for independence from Mexico. But in a new book, Bryan Burrough (along with co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford) challenge the historical lore of the Alamo — including the story that Davy Crockett refused to surrender. "Most academics now believe, based on Mexican accounts and contemporary accounts, that, in fact, [Crockett] did surrender and was executed," Burrough says. His book is 'Forget the Alamo.'Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews 'Republic of Detours' by Scott Borchert.
Remember the Alamo? According to Texas lore, it's the site in San Antonio where, in 1836, about 180 Texan rebels died defending the state during Texas' war for independence from Mexico. But in a new book, Bryan Burrough (along with co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford) challenge the historical lore of the Alamo — including the story that Davy Crockett refused to surrender. "Most academics now believe, based on Mexican accounts and contemporary accounts, that, in fact, [Crockett] did surrender and was executed," Burrough says. His book is 'Forget the Alamo.'Also, Maureen Corrigan reviews 'Republic of Detours' by Scott Borchert.
Those in the political world know Jason Stanford as the founder of the opposition research firm Stanford Campaigns - which is still going strong after 20+ years. He's also a prolific writer, with a new book out. Forget the Alamo chronicles the history of the Alamo, starting before the first shot was fired to the present day as the Alamo continues to roil Texas politics. In this discussion, Jason talks about his early days in Moscow as an aspiring spy, cutting his teeth working for Ann Richards in Texas, starting his opposition research firm, and touches on a few of the fascinating stories from his new book.Podcast WebsiteTwitter: @ProPoliticsPodTwitter: @ZacMcCraryFacebook: The Pro Politics Podcast(Please consider leaving a rating and review in your podcast app)IN THIS EPISODEJason is an eyewitness to Boris Yeltsin rolling in the tanks…How a West Coast kid like Jason winds up working in Texas politics…Jason works for and learns from Ann Richards in the '94 campaign…Jason dusts off some of the '94 talking points against George W Bush…How Jason started his opposition research firm in the mid-90s that is still going strong today…Jason talks a couple of times his research changed the course of a campaign…The origin story of Jason's new book Forget the Alamo…Jason explains the connection between the Alamo and Walt Disney, John Wayne, and Phil Collins (yes, that Phil Collins)…How the Alamo played an important role in JFK's 1960 campaign…The Alamo causes political waves for George P. Bush and Julian & Joaquin Castro…Jason provides an itinerary for your next visit to Austin…AND…Barton Springs, a black Volkswagen without A/C, Jim Bowie, Bryan Burrough, James Carville, Rosie Castro, Ben Chandler, the Continental Club, Davy Crockett, Lincoln Davis, Johnny Depp, gas station tacos, ghostwriters at the Alamo, internet porn, Bruce Lunsford, the mayor of Jerusalem, Dan Morales, Ken Paxton, Mike Plant, Ton Ryan, Santa Ana, Mark Strama, the Texas Rangers, Chris Tomlinson, William Travis, Donald Trump, the World Bank, Boris Yeltsin…and more!Podcast WebsiteTwitter: @ProPoliticsPodTwitter: @ZacMcCraryFacebook: The Pro Politics Podcast(Please consider leaving a rating and review in your podcast app)
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford “Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal “Entertaining and well-researched . . . ” —Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths, exploring why they had their day for so long, and explaining why the ugly fight about its meaning is now coming to a head. Every nation needs its creation myth, and since Texas was a nation before it was a state, it's no surprise that its myths bite deep. There's no piece of history more important to Texans than the Battle of the Alamo, when Davy Crockett and a band of rebels went down in a blaze of glory fighting for independence from Mexico, losing the battle but setting Texas up to win the war. However, that version of events, as Forget the Alamo definitively shows, owes more to fantasy than reality. Just as the site of the Alamo was left in ruins for decades, its story was forgotten and twisted over time, with the contributions of Tejanos--Texans of Mexican origin, who fought alongside the Anglo rebels--scrubbed from the record, and the origin of the conflict over Mexico's push to abolish slavery papered over. Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As uncomfortable as it may be to hear, celebrating the Alamo has long had an echo of celebrating whiteness. In the past forty-some years, waves of revisionists have come at this topic, and at times have made real progress toward a more nuanced and inclusive story that doesn't alienate anyone. But we are not living in one of those times; the fight over the Alamo's meaning has become more pitched than ever in the past few years, even violent, as Texas's future begins to look more and more different from its past. It's the perfect time for a wise and generous-spirited book that shines the bright light of the truth into a place that's gotten awfully dark.
In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Bryan Burrough, co-author of "Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth", to tell the true story of the Battle of the Alamo against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence. Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine and the author of six books, including the No. 1 New York Times Best-Seller Barbarians at the Gate and his latest, Days of Rage. He is also a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. Born in 1961, Bryan was raised in Temple, Texas, and graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1983. From 1983 to 1992 he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he reported from Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh and, during the late 1980s, covered the busy mergers and acquisitions beat in New York. He has written for Vanity Fair since 1992. In 1990 Bryan and John Helyar co-authored Barbarians, the story of the fight for control of RJR Nabisco. The book, which spent 39 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has been hailed as one of the most influential business narratives of all time. Bryan joined Vanity Fair in 1992, where he has reported from locales as diverse as Hollywood, Nepal, Moscow, Tokyo and Jerusalem. His subsequent books include: Vendetta, Dragonfly, Public Enemies, The Big Rich and Days of Rage. In addition to consulting work for “60 Minutes” and various Hollywood studios, Bryan has authored numerous book reviews and OpEd articles in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. He has appeared on “Today,” “Good Morning America,” and in many documentary films. Bryan splits his time between Chatam, N.J. and Austin, Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk LGBTQ+ reads for Pride Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic [NYT] New Nonfiction Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys Quick Mentions! The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson The Kissing Bug : A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams LGBTQ+ Reads The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards Transgender Nonfiction: The Black Trans Prayer Book by J. Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi LGBTQ Nonfiction: The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley Bisexual Nonfiction: wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Gay Memoir/Biography: A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim's Journey to Acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi LGBTQ Studies: Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Johnson Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Marizol Leyva and Selenis Leyva Reading Now KIM: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reed Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving of Life by Katherine E. Standefer ALICE: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Vanity Fair reporter and New York Times best-selling author Bryan Burrough went to high school with a young man who would eventually become a serial killer. Burrough returns to his hometown of Temple, Texas for a deep dive into this very personal story, talking to survivors and investigators. Written, researched, and hosted by Kate Winkler Dawson/producer Alexis Amorosi/sound designer Andrew Eapen/composer Curtis Heath/web designer Ilsa Brink/additional research Ella Middleton Subscribe to my newsletter: tenfoldmorewicked.com Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, email me: info@tenfoldmorewicked.com Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2021 All Rights Reserved See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we’re talking about Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac. This book is the story of the tech start-up Uber and its founder, Travis Kalanick, but it’s also a case study of the tech bro culture and founder worship in Silicon Valley, the perils of over-ambition, and the incredible economics of venture capital investments. Summary of the book (2:40) Our key takeaways (5:13) Our favorite quotes (33:14) What questions do we still have? (44:18) References: https://gifer.com/en/1Klq (Parks & Rec Mona Lisa Meme), Matt Levine’s https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine (Bloomberg column) What to check out next: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X (Bad Blood) by John Carreyrou and https://www.amazon.com/Barbarians-Gate-Fall-RJR-Nabisco-ebook/dp/B000FC10QG (Barbarians at the Gate) by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (nonfiction books); https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foundering/id1161880916 (Foundering) (podcast); https://www.hulu.com/series/a53a72e7-afd9-4f50-bda8-ae887ff0683d (Silicon Valley) (HBO, Hulu) Music by Waterboi via https://pixabay.com/music/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=117 (Pixabay)
It is Monday, April 14 2003 when co-workers of Maria Cruz become concerned. 35-year-old Maria was always a dependable, conscious employee who would just not show up for work. A few of her employee friends decide to swing by her apartment to check on her. They arrive at her home where they are greeted by a stack of newspapers on her front door. They knock on the door and no one answers it. Clearly, Maria is not home and has been gone for longer than just a day or two but they are sure she would have told them if she were planning a trip. One of her friends contacts her uncle who lives in nearby Queens and he immediately calls the police to report her missing and file a missing person’s report on Maria. What happened to Maria Cruz?Join Jen and Cam on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast entitled ‘The Fake Doctor: Dean Faiello.’Our listener discretion is by the incredible Edward October from @octoberpodVHS.Our music, as well as our executive producer, is the remarkable Nico @wetalkofdreams.Sources:Special thanks to one of my favorite writers, Bryan Burrough who wrote a fantastic piece on Faiello for Vanity Fair which is where I found the case: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/200406/burrough200406https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/25/nyregion/25doctor.htmlhttps://prisonlectionary.net/contributors/dean-faiello/https://web.archive.org/web/20000303020427/http://www.skinovations.com/hairRemoval.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/nyregion/17mbrfs-001.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/27/nyregion/fake-doctor-is-arrested-in-costa-rica.htmlhttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/black-hairy-tongue/symptoms-causes/syc-20356077
Who financed the rise of conservatism? A large amount of funding came from independent oil producers who were keen to avoid government regulation of their industry. They were at war with the major oil companies that descended from the Rockefeller Standard Oil monopoly, and were rightly concerned that the government might de facto cartelize oil again at their expense.Christianity, both liberal and fundamentalist, was also heavily funded by oil money. The overlaps between the economic interest of the different camps of the oil industry with theology and politics raises profound, and frankly troubling questions that we should ponder more deeply today.Bryan Burrough, The Big Rich: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143116827/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?tag=theurban-20Darren Dochuk, Anointed With Oil: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465060862/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?tag=theurban-20On HL Hunt supporting Barry Goldwater in 1964: https://www.nytimes.com/1964/11/01/archives/goldwater-gets-h-l-huntbacking-but-texas-rightist-wont-criticize.htmlThe Kennedys and Sen. Joseph McCarthy: https://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/progjfk2.htm
In This Episode:Transitioning to full-time self-storage investingHow to find dealsHow to know what properties make senseGuest Info:Brent Wright hails from a deep corporate background and is skilled in business planning, sales, management, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), and start-ups. In his role as President and Co-Founder of Pamlico, Brent utilizes his business background to source deals, underwrite locations, and source equity for their growing self-storage portfolio. Brent has a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with an emphasis in Business Development and Entrepreneurship.Contact Info:Brent's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-wright-31583415/Brent's Website: http://www.pamlicoinvest.com/Resources our Guest Recommends:Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert KiyosakiBarbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John HelyarAbout The Storage Investor Show:This show is about finding, funding, and closing self-storage dealsACTIVE investors will learn how to close self-storage deals and avoid mistakesPASSIVE investors will learn how to qualify deals, markets, and self-storage sponsorsDownload our self-storage pros and cons guide:https://cornerstonecapre.com/Email me and tell me what you want to hear! kris@storageinvestorshow.com
Ivy Zelman is Chief Executive Officer of Zelman & Associates, holding roughly 30 years of experience covering housing and related industries. The firm provides analyses across all aspects of the housing spectrum. Ivy is widely known and respected for her bold thinking and accurate assessments, helping industry players avoid costly mistakes and capture opportunities. Ivy famously asked Toll Brothers CEO, Bob Toll, on the Q4 2006 Toll Brothers conference call, “Which Kool-Aid are you drinking?” In this episode, Tyler and Ivy's discussion focused on identifying, balancing and leveraging drivers of success. Ivy shared the traits she developed from being on her own at age 18, how fear and insecurities have driven her, how she leverages inquisitiveness, reframing her weaknesses, and how she managed to succeed in Wall Street without the "ideal" pedigree.They also discussed the current and future housing market, including the favorability of the single family asset class, multifamily, the three D's in real estate, overlooked opportunities and much more. This is a must-listen for ALL entrepreneurs!Connect with Ivy:Website: zelmanassociates.comTwitter: twitter.com/ivy_zelmanEmail: kim@zelmanassociates.comThe following books were mentioned in the show:The Corner Office by Adam BryantThrive by Arianna HuffingtonGirls on the Edge by Leonard SaxAmerican Girls: Social Media and The Secret Life of Teenagers by Nancy Jo SalesBarbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John HelyarThe Big Leap by Gay HendricksSign up for Elevate High Performance Academy! The next live coaching program starts on March 1st. Learn more here: https://elevatecoachingacademy.com/Sign up for the Elevate Nation Newsletter! Receive exclusive personal and professional growth tools, tips from Tyler, the latest news from Elevate Podcast, real estate investment news, and opportunities from CF Capital and The Chesser Companies!Apply for coaching with Tyler! The world's top performers in any field have a coach to help them achieve drastically greater results and in less time. The most successful real estate investors are no different. To apply for a results coaching session with Tyler, visit coachwithtyler.com.This episode of Elevate is brought to you by CF Capital LLC, a national real estate investment firm that focuses on acquiring and operating multifamily assets that provide stable cash flow, capital appreciation, and a margin of safety. CF Capital leverages its expertise in acquisitions and management to provide investors with superior risk-adjusted returns while placing a premium on preserving capital. Learn more at cfcapllc.com.
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Sometimes in our research we come across stories that are regarded as true but that we can't fully verify. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll share two such stories from the 1920s, about a pair of New York fruit dealers and a mythologized bank robber, and discuss the strength of the evidence behind them. We'll also salute a retiring cat and puzzle over a heartless spouse. Intro: English essayist A.C. Benson dreamed poems. Robert Patch patented a toy truck at age 5. Sources for our feature on the Fortunato brothers and Herman Lamm: Walter Mittelstaedt, Herman 'Baron' Lamm, the Father of Modern Bank Robbery, 2012. L.R. Kirchner, Robbing Banks: An American History 1831-1999, 2003. William J. Helmer and Rick Mattix, Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919-1940, 1998. John Toland, The Dillinger Days, 1963. Bryan Burrough, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34, 2009. John Belle and Maxinne Rhea Leighton, Grand Central: Gateway to a Million Lives, 2000. Brian Robb, A Brief History of Gangsters, 2014. Carl Sifakis, Encyclopedia of American Crime, 2014. Richard Ringer, "Today's Bank Robber Is No Baby Face Nelson; Current Group Called Amateurs in Comparison to Legendary Predecessors," American Banker 148 (Feb. 28, 1983), 2. George W. Hunt, "Of Many Things," America 159:17 (Dec. 3, 1988), 450. Alan Hynd, "Grand Central's $100,000 Deal," in Rouben Mamoulian, ed., Scoundrels & Scalawags: 51 Stories of the Most Fascinating Characters of Hoax and Fraud, 1968. "Historical Perspective: Clinton and Rockville Robberies," [Terre Haute, Ind.] Tribune-Star, Sept. 15, 2019. Philip Marchand, "Grand Theft With Autos: For Bandits and Desperadoes, a Fast Getaway Car Is Just as Important as a Gun," Toronto Star, July 7, 2012, W.1. Scott McCabe, "Father of Modern Bank Robbery Killed in Shootout," [Washington, D.C.] Examiner, Dec. 16, 2011, 8. Christopher Goodwin, "America's Own Robin Hood: John Dillinger Was a Suave, Smooth-Talking Gangster Who Was Cheered On by the Public," Sunday Times, June 28, 2009, 7. Stephen Wilks, "In Pursuit of America's Public Enemies," Canberra Times, Jan. 17, 2009, 17. "Nutty Scam Fooled Fruit Bros.", [Campbell River, B.C.] North Island Midweek, Jan. 3, 2007, 5. Max Haines, "A Grand Con Game," Moose Jaw [Sask.] Times Herald, Dec. 27, 2006, B6. "Fabulous Fakes," Gadsden [Ala.] Times, Nov. 11, 1983. Donald Altschiller, "In This Corner; Robbery Today? It's a Crime," Boston Globe, Jan. 25, 1983, 1. "Dead Bank Bandit Has Been Identified," Rushville [Ind.] Republican, Dec. 19, 1930. Listener mail: "'Chief Mouser' Palmerston Retires as UK's Top Diplomatic Cat," Associated Press, Aug. 7, 2020. Justin Parkinson, "Foreign Office Cat Palmerston Retires to Countryside," BBC News, Aug. 7, 2020. "Paws for Reflection: British Foreign Office Cat Heads for Retirement," Reuters, Aug. 7, 2020. Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey and Stacey Lastoe, "'Cats' Is a Disaster, but Cats Aren't: The Best Cat Cafes to Show Your Solidarity With Our Beloved Companions," CNN, July 19, 2019. Wikipedia, "Cat Café" (accessed Aug. 20, 2020). Frances Cha, "Moomin, Japan's 'Anti-Loneliness' Cafe, Goes Viral," CNN, Feb. 21, 2017. The bear's breakin. Ed Mazza, "Big Boss Bear Bashes Down Door for Incredible Entrance Into Cabin," Huffington Post, July 22, 2020. Becky Talley, "VIDEO: Lake Tahoe Bear Smashes Through Door Like 'The Hulk,'" Our Community Now, July 24, 2020. "Meet the Canada Post Worker Who Wrote the 'Bear at Door' Non-Delivery Slip," CBC, Sept. 26, 2014. Max Knoblauch, "'Bear at Door' Is a Solid Reason to Not Deliver a Package," Mashable, Sept. 25, 2014. Listener Yulia Samaichuk sent us four photos of Tono's Cat Café in Tianzifang, Shanghai. This week's lateral thinking puzzle is taken from Agnes Rogers' 1953 book How Come? A Book of Riddles, sent to us by listener Jon Jerome. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!
Drew Sterrett is the co-founder and CEO of LEX, a commercial real estate securities marketplace for all investors and real estate owners. Drew and his co-founders, Dean Sterrett and Jesse Daugherty, began LEX in 2017. With LEX, you can diversify into commercial real estate properties with the potential to earn passive income and build wealth $100 at a time. LEX makes real estate investing simple by providing investors the freedom to purchase into individual commercial real estate properties through the publicly issued stock of the issuer. Investors benefit from transparency and LEX's research functionality. For property owners, LEX provides a more efficient and cost effective way to raise capital through a public offering of a partial interest in the property at fair market value. Connect with Drew Sterrett LEX LEX app on IOS Facebook Twitter LinkedIn drew@lex-markets.com Some of the Topics Covered by Drew Sterrett in this Episode What is LEX and its origin story Why LEX is the first of its kind The first year and a half spent researching, planning and preparing to raise capital and go full time with LEX Raising funds through VC Why Drew and his co-founders, Dean Sterrett and Jesse Daugherty, make a good team The roller coaster that is entrepreneurship Customer acquisition for LEX Expectation versus reality for Drew and his co-founders while building LEX How COVID has affected LEX and what they're focused on today Scaling supply and demand and managing customer feedback Building out LEX's team and culture Challenges Drew and his team have faced along the way How Drew views his entrepreneurial journey and getting past doubts Networking and asking for advice How Drew structures his time, work-life balance and what he does to recharge Drew's book recommendations Drew's favorite parts of being an entrepreneur Drew's advice for entrepreneurs Links from the Episode #134: Zuleyka Strasner, Founder and CEO of Zero, on Building a Convenient Zero-Waste Grocery Delivery Service, Becoming the Largest Sustainability Platform in the U.S., and Growing 15X in 5 Months Greycoft ATS The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz Zero to One by Peter Thiel The Tycoons by Charles Morris Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Acorns
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the birth of the FBI.
The Short Reel: Episode 5 Dillinger is now available on DVD, Blu-ray, and streaming on Amazon Prime. F For Fake is now available from Criterion Collection on DVD and Blu-ray. Kafka is available in an imported, region-free DVD. Bryan Burrough's Public Enemies is currently available in paperback, on Kindle, and as an audiobook. R.D. Morgan's The Tri-State Terror: The Life and Crimes of Wilbur Underhill is available in paperback. ___________________________________________ Have a movie request? A compliment about our delicious snack bar treats, our (mostly) friendly staff and our spotless restrooms? Don't bother filling out a comment card. (Lucy throws those away.) Connect with us via: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllNightDriveIn Instagram: @allnightdrivein Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheAllNightDriveInPictureShow/ E-mail: Allnightdriveinpictureshow@gmail.com Join us every two weeks for another double feature under the stars by subscribing, reviewing, and rating the show on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or your favorite podcatcher, or check out The All-Night Drive-In Picture Show YouTube page! We appreciate your patronage and please hang up your speaker, and drive safely!
On this episode of Dewey Like Murder?, Dawn talks about the book The Demon Next Door by Bryan Burrough and it is about a serial killer in Temple, Texas. Denice talks about the book Seduced by Madness by Carol Pogash that is about the Susan Polk murder trial. Opening and ending theme is El Horror Sucesivo del Vacio by Guerra de Cerdos
"Domestic terrorism" is a phrase that has had its fair share of US headlines in the years since 2001 and the Al Qaeda terror attacks. We've all read reports of bombings, mail attacks using fire, biological weapons. And the dramatic death tolls from dozens and dozens of mass shootings. But domestic terrorism was not hatched in the wake of foreign attacks. It predates online radicalization and the US wars in the Middle East and South Asia.In fact, a series of domestic bombings, and other actions of radical underground groups were all too common during the 1970s. Those “Days of Rage” and the FBI’s response to them are the subject of Bryan Burrough’s investigation into and retelling a decade of America’s experience of domestic terrorism, which he published in the 2015 book, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.
Book Talk Begins at 27:30 Recorded on Wednesday May 15, 2019 Our 2019 Colorwork KAL is over! Be sure to listen until the end of the podcast to hear the prize winners! Our current Giveaway! We have 2 new sock patterns from Jenn Sheelan: Dragon Toes Socks and Hit of Suspicion. Comment on this thread for a chance to win. This contest will close June 30. The Spinning at the Winery date has been changed from 5/18/19, to Saturday, May 25 at Retzlaff Winery. Our next Knit-Along will be our annual Mother Bear KAL! Any bears you have knit or crocheted on 2019 are eligible to post pictures of in our FO thread (which will be started after June 1, 2019). Come join the Chatter thread here! KNITTING Barb’s finished objects: 1. Mother Bears #157, #158 & #159 Tracie’s Finished Objects: 1. Gnome #15 (Never Not Gnoming) by Sarah Schira 2. Annie Bear for niece Jayla 3. Mother Bears # 156 - 166 Barb continues to work on: 1. Christmas Vanilla Socks, using The Yarn Jar Shop sock yarn in The Grinch colorway 2. ZickZack Scarf by Christy Kamm - free pattern on Ravelry - 5380 projects! Using Lang Yarns MilleColori Baby in the 51 and52 color ways 3. Zephyr Cardigan by Celia McAdam Cahill, using Malabrigo Yarn Rios in the Teal Feather color way She has cast on: 1. If They Kill Daryl Socks using Desert Vista Dyeworks Viso in the If They Kill Daryl colorway 2. Poulia cowl by Hilary Smith Callis, using Malabrigo Yarn Arroyo in the Anniversario colorway Barb has frogged: Fire Bird Hat Test Knit for Carson of Rage Knit for Choice moderator Carson, using Alpenglow yarn and Madelinetosh Tosh DK in the grasshopper color way Tracie has cast on: 1. Another Judah Cardigan by Juliana Lustanader in Valley Yarns Goshen in the Pacific colorway She continues to work on: 1. Confetti by Veera Valimaki in Anzula Nebula in Lottie and Knit Picks Hawthorne Fingering Multi in Rockaway 2. Fiddly Bits #7 by Jane Pihota in sport weight yarns 3. Jewel Box Cowl in Stunning String Studios Stunning Superwash in Jewel Box minis colorway 4. Dare to Dream by Boo Knits in Duren Dyeworks Heavenly Fingering in Cherry Pop BOOKS Barb has finished: 1. Black Water Rising (Jay Porter #1) by Attica Locke - recommend 2. Greyhound by Steffan Piper - recommends 3. The Neighbors by Hannah Mary McKinnon - recommend 4. A Curve in the Road by Julianne MacLean - so-so 5. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - recommend 6. Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar - this is the Audible Original - recommend! Barb is currently reading: 1. The Demon Next Door by Bryan Burrough 2. The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim Palmkvist Tracie has finished: 1. Tell Me by Lisa Jackson - thumbs down 2. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens - Tracie thinks "meh" 3. Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case the Rocked Boston and Shocked the Nation by Joe Sharkey - thumbs up 4. The Silent Sister by Shalini Boland - thumbs down 5. What We Kill by Howard Odentz - Thumbs up Tracie is currently reading: 1. A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki 2. Death on the River: A Fiancee's Dark Secrets and a Kayak Trip Turned Deadly by Diane Fanning
Al returns to TBP to talk about Netflix's latest holiday-season bingeable, The Innocent Man, and how very much not...OK (sorry) the state of law enforcement is in Ada, Oklahoma. It's based in part on John Grisham's book about one of the two murder cases centered around false confessions; Al thinks it's one of the best she's seen of this type. *I* think that's in no small part thanks to one "Aint Peppy." Later, the great Bryan Burrough does a lot to rescue the not-great inaugural ep of the Misfortune podcast, which tries a little too hard to be the all-dude, white-collar version of My Favorite Murder, and not quite hard enough to squelch its Buzz-and-Dave-in-the-morning tendencies. It's hard to mess up a brown-blimp-crash story, though. Support the pod/site on Patreon! SHOW NOTES The Innocent Man Misfortune, "The Lou Pearlman Story" Bryan Burrough, "Mad About The Boys" Allison Lowe Huff on MHZ Choice's blog Special Guest: Allison Lowe Huff.
Carl Allen is an entrepreneur, investor, and corporate dealmaker who has worked on transactions worth over $50 billion, which includes over 250 acquisitions and sales, together with more than 100 capital fundraising projects. Carl is one of the world's premier experts on buying and financing small business acquisitions and coaches more than 1000 entrepreneurs all over the world to buy small businesses rather than starting new ones. What you'll learn about in this episode: How Carl Allen got started in his career as a business professional, and entrepreneur and mentor specializing in small business acquisition Why Carl believes you should be buying businesses in industries and specialties you understand and are passionate about Why Carl focuses on buying functioning businesses from distressed sellers who are looking to get out What process Carl uses to connect buyers to businesses and originate deals, and how he finds “off-market” deals that are sector agnostic. Why buying an established business is more reliable and involves less risk than starting your own business, and how you can be the distressed business owners' life line Which steps Carl recommends business owners take in the first three months, whether they are buying an existing business or starting their own venture How Carl and his business work with his coaching students to partner on bigger, more complex deals Where and how to park the funds you earn from real estate. Which business books Carl recommends as essential reading for entrepreneurs and business professionals Why Carl believes it's important to listen to your heart and do what you are passionate about Resources: SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/GetLeverage SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/BusinessBuyingAccelerator SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/NinjaAcquisitions SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/termsbook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/QLS Carl Allen's Recommended Reading List: The One Thing by Gary Keller: http://a.co/d/gU2qsdb The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E Gerber: http://a.co/d/bM6rYaN Be The Man by Garrett J White: http://a.co/d/4K3TF80 Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Heylar: http://a.co/d/aJTS7kQ Traction by Gino Wickman: http://a.co/d/i3nZUCt Expert Secrets by Russell Brunson: http://a.co/d/9RoTLBS DotCom Secrets by Russell Brunson: http://a.co/d/gnYK90x Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini: http://a.co/d/dmbjkVk Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill: http://a.co/d/2yspspA Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson: http://a.co/d/hpq2Srm Red Card by Ken Bensinger: http://a.co/d/fJjogMv
From 1971 to 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings in America. That’s five explosions a day, and most were tied to radical underground political movements. Political violence is on the rise in the US but many of its perpetrators are disorganized loners, attached to fringe movements that foment online but rarely follow through. In the 1970s and into the 1980s, dozens of violent political groups agitated for change and attempted the violent overthrow of the government.Today’s political violence is scary and terrible, but it’s a far cry from the explosive 1970s. Here to help us understand it is Bryan Burrough, author of Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies and Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.You can listen to War College on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow our RSS directly. Our website is warcollegepodcast.com. You can reach us on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/warcollegepodcast/; and on Twitter: @War_College. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Ep 122: Chloe (@itsthechew) and Faith (@bohemianfaith) rec Nicole Byer's Why Won't You Date Me?, Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough, Living the Revolution by Jennifer Guglielmo, The Good Place, The Runaways, and a lukewarm rec for Would You Rather? by Katie Heaney. Also, Chloe discusses her upcoming trip to Vermont and Faith asks that churches not try to be cool and they give their Hot Takes: Ryan Gosling is no big deal and True Crime is meh What is the most beloved thing that you hate AND what is your Harry Potter Hogwarts House? Let us know on Twitter! @LightTreasonPod, #LightTreasonPod $5/month+ Patreon supporters: Check out the new bonus episode about Infinity War! https://www.patreon.com/posts/special-bonus-is-21398892 In bad news: "Impartial" Brett Kavanaugh pens an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Conservative bros recall their bar fights and no one is impressed, and Melania dresses like a colonialist during her Kenya trip In good news: Australia is very close to beating cervical cancer and we could do the same in the U.S. with some recalculated priorities and holy shit, holy shit: this deer beat up a hunter Light Treason News is supported by members! To sign up and keep the show going, visit lighttreason.news
Josh interviews Jared "Jay" Ware about prison abolitionism. Kathy and I finished our most recent Orange Is the New Black recap (Season 6 Episode 3). Jared "Jay" Ware is a prison abolitionist, freelance writer, co-host of the podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism and producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. His work has been published with Shadowproof.com, The New Inquiry, In These Times, SF Bay View, Worker's World, Off Tha Record, and Hampton Institute. Students for a Democratic Society had a storied and important history in American political activism. Hopefully, most people remember the police and state violence that resulted in the deaths of Mike Brown, Tamie Rice, Eric Garner, and Sandra Brown as well as the situation in Ferguson Missouri. We have talked about Michelle Alexanders book "The New Jim Crow" many times before on this podcast. Angela Y Davis book "Are Prisons Obsolete" is a relatively quick read but very fundamental to understanding prison abolition. The site Critical Resistance is a very good starting place for investigating stories about abolition and resistance to statist power. It is also the home to "The Abolitionist" newspaper. I suspect Jay was referring to Elizabeth Hinton's book "From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime" A good place to start on the thinking of Michelle Foucault is in his book "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison." Bryan Burrough's book "Days of Rage" discusses revolutionary violent groups in the United States. My favorite book about John Brown is "Patriotic Treason" by Evan Carton. W.E.B Dubois scathing critique of popular notions of slavery and of reconstruction was called "Black Reconstruction in America" Jay's interview with prisoners after the Lee Correctional Riot provides an important counter-narrative to the "official story" of what happened in South Carolina a few months ago. It is important to read the full list of demands around the August 21st Strike. We have covered Restorative Justice many times on the podcast, this is the first time we have talked about Transformative Justice. This is a piece from Mariame Kaba from her site Prison Culture. Some of the people Jay shouted out were: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak Kinetic Justice (Free Alabama Movement) Mariame Kaba Frantz Fanon Jackie Wang's book "Carceral Capitalism" I will try and fill in the ones I am missing over time. The DOJ Letter I was referring to was in response to the Federal First Step Act. Elizabeth Warren has been getting blasted by police, prosecutors, and correctional officers for her statement that our criminal justice system is racist (I suspect most of this is political posturing since what she said is factually correct). If you want to know more about why what she said was factually correct, you can listen to all of the early episodes of this podcast or read this overview of the evidence. The National Review article that mentions John Pfaff as an answer to Elizabeth Warren's claim can be found here. John Pfaff's response can be found in this Twitter thread. Tom Cotton's argument about Mass Incarceration was a real thing (can't make this stuff up).
Hey look! It's a new Unpops podcast! Misfortune is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by Adam Tod Brown and Danger Van Gorder that explores the sordid world of white collar crime. On the inaugural episode, we welcome Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough to discuss the insane and tragic story behind boy band impresario Lou Pearlman. You know all about his crimes against music, but are you familiar with Lou's actual crimes? Get ready for a tale of greed, deception, blimps, fake airplanes, Art Garfunkel, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode three, Sarah Gordon, the FT’s business editor, and Martin Dickson, the FT’s former deputy editor, discuss 'Barbarians at the Gate' by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
To celebrate the FT’s Business Book of the Year Award, our star columnists recommend six classic business books and challenge listeners to read them in 12 weeks. In episode two, John Thornhill, the FT’s innovation editor, discusses David Nasaw’s biography of Andrew Carnegie. Sarah Gordon, the FT’s business editor, pitches the next book, 'Barbarians at the Gate' by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Journalist Bryan Burrough discusses the "Age of Terror" in the early 1970s that saw militant groups such as the Weather Underground, the United Freedom Front and the Black Liberation Army conduct domestic bombings. Burrough discusses these groups and his book "Days of Rage" on The Steve Fast Show.
Pat Williams, author and motivational speaker had a vision to bring an NBA expansion team to Orlando. Inspired by Walt Disney, he did just that. Pat is the VP of the NBA’s Orlando Magic and... Experience the excitement and energy of Las Vegas each weekend on VEGAS NEVER SLEEPS with Steven Maggi.
It’s funny how history often pokes its head out in the framework of contemporary events. Remember during the government shutdown a few years ago, commentators said that the radical elements of the GOP were acting like terrorists from the 60’s and 70’s? We heard similar criticism of occupy Wall Street years ago. And who can forget the President being accused of paling around with terrorist because of an acquaintance with Bill Ayers. That fact is that the idea of direct action, grassroots support and commitment to ideas of social change, no matter how flawed, were an essential part of America in the 70’s Inspired by the communist revolutions in Cuba and China and Vietnam, by the actions of the Nixon administration and the war in Vietnam, a radical group of revolutionaries sought to launch what they believed to be a 2nd American Revolution. Today, to look back upon it, is to be shocked by the level of violence that the public came of accept as commonplace and how the efforts of law enforcement to stop it, were almost keystone cops like. Taking us back to this bizarre time in modern American history is award winning author and journalist Bryan Burrough, in his book Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence My conversation with Bryan Burrough:
Episode Summary Eric Scott is the technical assistant for Max Levchin and works at HVF Labs. Eric helps manage external investments at HVF, which stands for Hard, Valuable, and Fun. Eric talks on how the company got it's name, what Eric and his team look for in a pitch, and talks on why the startup Zen Payroll turned him from a skeptical investor to a major supporter when he heard their pitch. Key Takeaways 02:00 - Eric talks about HFV. 04:00 - How did Eric get a job as a technical assistant with Max Levchin? 09:30 - How much money does HVF invest in? Around $250k. 13:40 - What does Eric look for in a pitch? 16:35 - What's a good pitch that has good 'defensibility' against competitors? 21:20 - Eric talks a little bit about SmartThings and Cover. 24:40 - Eric talks on how he went from skeptical to completely sold when Zen Payroll pitched him. 30:10 - What is BlockStream about? 36:10 - Eric recommends the book Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. 38:30 - Don't confuse your investors. Make your pitch clear. Tweetables A founder's authentic passion about the problem is infectious to investorsDo your homework on what investors' passion points are before you pitch.How to make investors go from skeptical to enthusiastic. Links Mentioned Raportive Venmo Glowing Hard Valuable Fun Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. Eric Scott Twitter HVF Twitter HVF - Breaking the Barrier: the race for the first 1 person $1B company Want the Transcription? Click Here to Download Share The Show Did you enjoy the show? I'd love it if you subscribed today and left us a 5-star review! Click this link Click on the 'Subscribe' button below the artwork Go to the 'Ratings and Reviews' section Click on 'Write a Review'
The Empire Club of Canada Presents: A Pioneer Series Event of the Empire Club of Canada featuring Jim Balsillie, Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff With Blackberry: Lessons Learned from One of Canada's Most Riveting Technology Companies Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry JACQUIE McNISH is a senior writer with The Globe and Mail and previously The Wall Street Journal. She has won six National Newspaper Awards for her groundbreaking investigations into some of the biggest business stories of the past three decades. She is a regular host on Canadian business news station BNN and an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has authored three bestselling books: The Big Score: Robert Friedland, Inco and the Voisey's Bay Hustle; Wrong Way: The Fall of Conrad Black,winner of the 2005 National Business Book Award, and The Third Rail: Confronting our Pension Failures, which was co authored by Jim Leech. In his 2005 New York Times review of Wrong Way, author Bryan Burrough praised her as, long one of Canada's best business writers. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons. SEAN SILCOFF is an award winning business writer with The Globe and Mail. During his seventeen year career, he has covered just about every area of business, from agriculture to the credit crisis, toys to airplane manufacturing. He led the paper's coverage of the rise and fall of BlackBerry and many of the other major business stories of the decade, including the takeover battle for telecom giant BCE Inc., the contentious merger between brewers Molson and Coors, and the near death struggles of plane and train manufacturer Bombardier Inc. He has won a National Newspaper Award, an Aerospace Journalist of the Year Award and the Edward Goff Penny Memorial Prize for Young Canadian Journalists. He lives in the Gatineau Hills near Ottawa with his wife and three children. JIM BALSILLIE, B.Comm. Toronto, FCA Toronto, MBA Harvard, currently chairs the Board of Directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada. He was appointed to this role by the Government of Canada in 2013. He is a co founder and former co CEO of Research In Motion, BlackBerry, and founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, CIGI. He is also the founder of the Balsillie School of International Affairs, BSIA; Arctic Research Foundation, and co founder of Communitech. He was the private sector representative on the UN Secretary General's High Panel for Sustainability. His awards include: Mobile World Congress Lifetime Achievement Award, India's Priyadarshni Academy Global Award, Time Magazine World's 100 Most Influential People, three times Barron's list of World's Top CEOs and once CNBC's list of Worst CEOs. Speakers: Jim Balsillie, Chair of the Board of Directors of Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jacquie McNish, Senior Writer, The Globe and Mail Sean Silcoff, Business Writer, The Globe and Mail *The content presented is free of charge but please note that the Empire Club of Canada retains copyright. Neither the speeches themselves nor any part of their content may be used for any purpose other than personal interest or research without the explicit permission of the Empire Club of Canada.* *Views and Opinions Expressed Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by the speakers or panelists are those of the speakers or panelists and do not necessarily reflect or represent the official views and opinions, policy or position held by The Empire Club of Canada.*
What do The Weathermen, The Symbionese Liberation Army, The FALN, and The Black Liberation Army all have in common? Well, besides being a swell bunch of fellas, they're all featured in-depth throughout Bryan Burrough's great new book, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. The original Power Line crew welcomes Burrough to the show and... Source
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We sat down at the Bryant Corner Café after a few weeks away, so we took a survey of what folks have just completed. We also remember the great and generous writer, Ivan Doig. Books from this episode:The Belly of Paris, Emile ZolaDays of Rage, Bryan BurroughThe Buried Giant, Kazuo IshiguroThe Imperfectionists, Tom RachmanThe Circle, Dave EggersSo You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, by Jon RonsonWinter Brothers, Ivan DoigAll The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Today on The Gist, Bryan Burrough explains what America’s radical underground revolutionaries from the 1970s are up to now. He’s the author of Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. For the Spiel, every Republican hopeful is learning that the way to spell hilarious starts with Hillary, kinda. Today’s sponsor: Harry’s, the shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door. Visit Harrys.com for $5 off your first purchase with the promo code GIST. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at http://www.slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Author Bryan Burrough on Public Enemies, the FBI's War on Crime 1933-34 (encore), and Film Instructor, Matthew Perry, talks about gangster films .
Author Bryan Burrough on Public Enemies, the FBI's War on Crime 1933-34 (encore), and Film Instructor, Matthew Perry, talks about gangster films .
The same writer who penned the award winning Barbarians at the Gate: Rise and Fall of RJR Nabisco is at it again. He comes on to speak about his latest work, chronicling the history of oil in Texas. The book details Texas' relationship with politics, extraordinary wealth, and wary relationship with the Northeast.
Author Bryan Burrough on Public Enemies, the FBI's War on Crime 1933-34
Author Bryan Burrough on Public Enemies, the FBI's War on Crime 1933-34
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