Book Reviews Posts
Dec. 2, 2022
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon.
William D. Cohan, New York Times best selling author has written a sweeping history of General Electric and its CEO in the 1980s and 90s Jack Welch. The book has earned plaudits from The New Yorker and The Financial Times as one of the Best Books of…
March 15, 2022
The Great Firewall of China: How to build your own Internet
James Griffiths, the internet authority, will join us Tuesday evening from his office in Hong Kong to discuss how China censors its internet. This is a do not miss podcast !China’s philosophy of Internet Sovereignty is providing a mo…
Feb. 6, 2022
The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence
Douglas London author of “The Recruiter” is a 34 year veteran of CIA’s Clandestine Service who retired in 2019. Mr. London spent the majority of his career overseas and served extensively across the Middle East, South Asia, the for…
Jan. 30, 2022
Black History Month 2022
February marks Black History Month and The San Francisco Experience will feature three accomplished African Americans to discuss the Black experience in our nation’s history.Our first guest on February 2 will be Professor Farah Jasmine…
Oct. 17, 2021
Carol Lynley: Her Hollywood Career. A preview of Wednesday’s Podcast
Since she was a child, Carol graced TV and movie screens from 1956 to 2002. She progressed from child model, to teenage idol, to ingenue. Author Tom Lisanti, and Shaun Chang of the movie/TV blog “Hill Place” will discuss her…
Oct. 3, 2021
Michael Dobbs: author of King Richard
Michael Dobbs is the author of King Richard an American Tragedy. Within the field of presidential historians, his specialty is presidential crisis history. In the cover photo, he is pictured as a young 7 year old boy with his Mother and broth…
Sept. 27, 2021
Mexican Americans with Moxie
Today’s blogpost preview features author Professor Frank Barajas and his new book, Mexican Americans with Moxie. He recounts the history of the Mexican and later Mexican American community in Ventura County, north of Los Angeles and how they t…
Sept. 19, 2021
Migrations by J.L. Torres - a Blogpost preview of our upcoming author interview.
Migrations is a collection of short stories chronicling the American experience of primarily Puerto Rican immigrants to the United States. But the themes are universal to all immigrants. The characters…
Sept. 14, 2021
Christians Against Christianity: How Right Wing Evangelicals are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith.
Today’s blogpost preview features a brief profile of renowned biblical scholar, Dr. Obery Hendricks, author of Christians against Christianity. Dr. Hendricks will be discussing his book in our podcast Wednesday, September 15.A lifelong…
Aug. 7, 2021
Elisabeth de Mariaffi author of The Retreat
Canadian author Elisabeth de Mariaffi is our guest Wednesday August 11, to discuss her new thriller The Retreat.Set in a remote mountain resort in the Canadian Rockies, the protagonist Maeve Martin, 34, has aged out of the super competitive dance …
July 23, 2021
Collateral Damage, by Mark Shaw
Today’s blogpost previews Monday’s podcast, an interview with author Mark Shaw. His latest book, Collateral Damage, looks at the three deaths of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, JFK in 1963 and Dorothy Kilgallen in 1965 and links them.What could …
July 20, 2021
Social Media Profiles: the real, the fake and the extreme. In conversation with Professor Chris Bail of Duke University.
Is online anonymity the primary driver of the extremist commentaries that have polarized American politics and society generally ? Tune in to Tuesday’s podcast when Professor Chris Bail who heads up the Polarization Lab at Duke, will …
June 13, 2021
Author Cate Holahan discusses her new domestic thriller Her Three Lives..
Cate Holahan will be our guest on Thursday June 17 to talk about her fifth and latest thriller Her Three Lives. Cate graduated from Princeton in 2002 and pursued a career in journalism, writing for The Record, The Boston Globe and Businessweek. …