That Said With Michael Zeldin

Join Michael in his conversation with George Stephanopoulos about his new book The Situation Room, The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis which recounts the crises and the decisions that shaped the course of history from its creation in 1961 through to today. No room better defines American power and its role in the world than the White House Situation Room. And yet, none is more shrouded in secrecy and mystery.The Situation Room is the definitive past-the-security-clearance look at the room where history has been made. Detailing close calls made and disasters narrowly averted, The Situation Room takes readers through minute-by-minute transcripts after both Presidents Kennedy and Reagan were shot; the shocking moment when Henry Kissinger raised the military alert level to DEFCON III while President Nixon was drunk in the White House residence; the extraordinary scene when President Carter asked for help from secret government psychics to rescue American hostages in Iran; a vivid retelling of the harrowing hours during the 9/11 attack; new details from Obama administration officials leading up to the raid on Osama Bin Laden; and a first-ever account of January 6th from the staff inside the Sit Room.  George is the host of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos and co-anchor of Good Morning America. He joined ABC News in 1997 as an analyst for This Week. Prior to joining ABC News, he served in the Clinton administration as the senior advisor to the president for policy and strategy. He is the author of All Too Human, a New York Times bestseller.Lisa Dickey is an American author who has helped clients write more than 20 published nonfiction books, including eleven New York Times Best Sellers. Authors with whom she has worked include Jill Biden, Patrick Swayze, Gavin Newsom, Cissy Houston, Herbie Hancock, Tammy Duckworth, Sheila Johnson and Roberta Kaplan. Her collaborations have spanned a vast array of topics, from politics to business to entertainment to international relations.George Stephanopouloshttps://linktr.ee/gstephanopouloshttps://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/Lisa Dickeyhttps://lisadickey.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Professor Barbara McQuade about her new book Attack from Within, How Disinformation is Sabotaging America which addresses the issue of how disinformation is polarizing American society and threatening the foundations of our democracy.We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth—and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social mediainfluencers, among others. It’s endangering our democracy and causing havoc in our electoral system,schools, hospitals, workplaces, and in our Capitol.Advances in technology including rapid developments in artificial intelligence threaten to make the problems even worse by amplifying false claims and manufacturing credibility.In Attack from Within, Barbara McQuade, shows us how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our society and how we can fight against it.Follow Barbara McQuade:https://twitter.com/barbmcquadeAttack from Withinhttps://www.barbaramcquade.com/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. about his new book, We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For which makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of American democracy. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how we have the power to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires.Follow Eddie Glaude Jr. https://twitter.com/esglaudeBuy the book: We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking ForOne of the nation's most prominent scholars, Dr. Eddie S. Glaude Jr., is a passionate educator, author, political commentator, and public intellectual who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. A highly accomplished and respected scholar of religion, Glaude is a former president of the American Academy of Religion. His books on religion and philosophy include "An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion", "African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction", and "Exodus! Religion, Race and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America", which was awarded the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize.Glaude is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, a program he first became involved with shaping as a doctoral candidate in Religion at Princeton.  He served as the inaugural chair of the department for more than fourteen years. He is also on the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media, as a columnist for TIME Magazine and as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe and Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace. He also regularly appears on Meet the Press on Sundays. Combining a scholar's knowledge of history, a political commentator's take on the latest events, and an activist's passion for social justice, Glaude challenges all of us to examine our collective American conscience.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Robin Bernstein about her new book, Freeman’s Challenge, The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, which tells a gripping story of murder, greed, race, and the true origins of prisons for profit in Auburn, NY decades before the Civil War.Robin Bernstein is a cultural historian who specializes in U.S. racial formation from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. Her previous book is titled Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights. Robin Bernsteinhttps://x.com/RobinMBernsteinFreeman's Challengehttps://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo213968137.htmlAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Jane Ferguson about her recent memoir No Ordinary Assignment, which chronicles her journey from childhood in Northern Ireland in the midst of sectarian violence to becoming one of the most decorated war correspondents in a generation. With an open-hearted humanity we rarely see in conflict stories, No Ordinary Assignment shows what it means to build an authentic career against the odds.Jane Ferguson is a special correspondent for PBS NewsHour specializing in coverage of the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Jane also writes for The New Yorker. Jane has won numerous awards for her war reporting including the Alfred I. du Pont Columbia Award, the George Polk Award for Foreign Television Reporting, an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature in a Newscast among others. This is her first book.Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. She reported from Yemen as protests grew into the Arab Spring; she secured rare access to rebel-held Syria, where foreign journalists were banned, to cover its civil war. When the Taliban claimed Kabul in 2021, she was one of the last Western journalists to remain at the airport as thousands of Afghans, including some of her colleagues, struggled to evacuate.Living with sectarian violence was nothing new to Ferguson. As a child in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and ‘90s, The Troubles meant bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace. Books by travel writer Dervla Murphy and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn offered solace from her turbulent family. An opportunity to study Arabic in Yemen opened the door to the life in journalism for which she seemed destined.Without family wealth or connections, she began as a scrappy one-woman reporting team, a borrowed camera often her only equipment. Networks told her she had the wrong accent, the wrong appearance, not enough "bang-bang shoot-‘em-up." Still, Ferguson threw herself into harm's way time and again, determined to give voice to civilian experiences of war. In the face of grave violence and suffering, this seemed a small act of justice, no matter the risks.Jane Fergusonhttps://x.com/janeferguson5No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoirhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-ordinary-assignment-jane-ferguson/1142468502?ean=9780063272262Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Professor author Derek Black about their new memoir, The Klansman’s Son, My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism which tells their journey from the heir apparent leader of the White Nationalist movement in the United States to one of the country’s leading antiracist spokespersons.Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet’s first white supremacist website on which Derek built the kids’ page. David Duke, was also their close family friend and mentor. Racist hatred, often wrapped up in language of respectability, was all Derek knew.In 2013, while studying medieval history at New College in Sarasota, FL Derek publicly renounced white nationalism and apologized for their actions and the suffering that they had caused. The majority of their family stopped speaking to them, and they disappeared into academia, convinced that they had done so much harm that there was no place for them in public life.But in 2016, as they watched the rise of Donald Trump, they immediately recognized what they were hearing—the spread and mainstreaming of the hate they had helped cultivate—and they knew that they couldn’t stay silent.Derek, who uses the pronouns “they and them”, is a doctoral student in history at the University of Chicago. Derek has been honored with the first Elie Wiesel Award given by the Wiesel family after the passing of the Nobel Peace Laureate in 2016. Derek also has received the Anti-Defamation League’s Humanitarian award.This is Derek’s first book.Derek Blackhttps://x.com/rderekblackThe Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism: A Memoirhttps://www.abramsbooks.com/product/klansmans-son_9781419764783/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael and former senior speechwriter for President Joe Biden as they discuss his fascinating new book, Undelivered: The Never-heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History. Undelivered presents some of the most notable, never delivered speeches from Richard Nixon’s refusal to resign to Hillary Clinton’s acceptance speech; from Dwight Eisenhower’s apology for the failure of the D-Day invasion to Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s apology for his role in World War II.Guest Jeff NussbaumJeff Nussbaum is an adjunct professor of Public Communication. Nussbaum is a partner in the speechwriting and strategy firm West Wing Writers. He has previously served as a speechwriter for Vice President Joe Biden, Vice President Al Gore, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Most recently Nussbaum oversaw all speechwriting operations for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. In addition to his speechwriting experience, Jeff was the co-author and collaborator with James Carville on the 2003 bestseller, Had Enough? Jeff also collaborated with Senator Bob Graham on his book Intelligence Matters, which was published to critical acclaim in September 2004 and updated and re-released in 2008. As a co-founder of The Humor Cabinet, Nussbaum has also worked on humor speeches for dozens of elected officials and corporate executives and has served as a creative consultant for the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Join Michael in his conversation with Jim Sciutto about his new book, The Return of Great Powers, Russia, China, and The Next World War which details the realities of this new post–post–Cold War era, the threats posed by an increasingly aligned Russian and Chinese governments, and the flashpoint of a new, global nuclear arms race. It poses a question: As we consider uncertain, even terrifying, outcomes, will it be possible for the West and Russia and China to prevent a new World War?Jim Sciuttohttps://twitter.com/jimsciuttoThe Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and The Next World Warhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/80608/jim-sciutto/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Jefferson Cowie, the James G. Stallman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and author of Freedom's Dominion, shares profound insights into white resistance to federal authority through the lens of Barbour County, Alabama. He reveals how freedom has been weaponized historically to oppose federal power and highlights its complex meanings in American politics. The conversation dives into themes of states' rights, racial dynamics post-Civil War, and even suggests mandatory voting to enhance democracy, making the past resonate with contemporary struggles.

Join Michael in his conversation with Timothy Ryback about his new book Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power which chronicles Hitler’s rise to power in 1932 all within the democratic structures of Germany’s constitutional democracy.Tim has written on history and politics for more than three decades. He is the author of Hitler’s Private Library, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and The Last Survivor, a New York Times Notable Book. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and the Financial Times. He is co-founder and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation, in The Hague.Timothy RybackTakeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Powerhttps://www.amazon.com/Takeover-Hitlers-Final-Rise-Power/dp/0593537424Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy