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…

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Nov. 15, 2022

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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