Welcome to Reader’s Corner, a weekly radio show and podcast hosted by Boise State University president emeritus and former Illinois Lieutenant Governor Bob Kustra. Reader's Corner features lively conversations with leading writers, including Pulitzer, National Book Award, and Nobel Prize winners and many best-selling authors. Listen each week for thoughtful interviews about issues and ideas that matter.
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An interview with Gilda R. Daniels, author of Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America. The book warns about a premeditated strategy of restrictive laws and deceptive practices that is eroding the very basis of American democracy. -
An interview with Blaine Harden, author of Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West. The book examines the cost of American expansionism, and the problems that arise when history is only told by the victors.
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Note: This is an encore edition of our program. The original episode aired July 2020. Daniel Okrent’s The Guarded Gate tells the chilling story of how…
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Note: This is an encore edition of our program. This episode first aired in December 2019.In 1992, the United States stood at the pinnacle of world power…
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Imbolo Mbue's novel, How Beautiful We Were, follows a fearless young woman from a small African village as she starts a revolution against an American oil company.
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Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. The original episode first aired in May 2020.In “Tightrope,” authors Kristof and WuDunn issue a plea –…
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In his latest book, The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive, Philippe Sands offers a tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, cold war espionage, and a mysterious death in the Vatican.
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Note: This is an encore edition of our program that first aired in April 2020.In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how…
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In his book, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers’ vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives.
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Note: This is an encore edition of Reader's Corner. This episode originally aired in June 2020.A Long Petal of the Sea, is an epic novel spanning decades…
