As evidenced by the controversy now ranging between Bill O’Reilly of FOX News and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, Roger Ailes is the rare example of a newsman who makes headlines even while he and his minions cover the politics, entertainment and personalities of our time. Ailes has been instrumental in every notable advance in TV and broadcast news and many of the political and media milestones of the past generation. Kerwin Swint has a new book about Ailes called Dark Genius: The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and FOX News Founder Roger Ailes. Swint is an associate professor of political science at Kennesaw State University.
Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot
Airing Monday through Friday on Newsradio 1070 WINA
CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier on Breathing the Fire
Covering the Middle East as a foreign correspondent for CBS News, U.Va graduate Kimberly Dozier earned a reputation for being on top of the story. But on Memorial Day 2006, Kimberly Dozier became the story as a car bomb took the lives of her crew, a U.S. Army captain an Iraqi interpreter, and left her in a pool of blood on the street fighting for her life. Her new book is Breathing the Fire, and it reconstructs her path from the bombing to recovery. She joined Coy Barefoot on the June 27th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot.
Steven Waldman on the faith of the Founding Fathers
The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Many on the left contend that the Founders were deists and the advent of the First Amendment proves that church and state should be separated. Author Steven Waldman contends that neither of these claims are true in his new book Founding Faith: Providence, Politics and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America.
Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality
Fulbright scholar and economist Loretta Napoleoni is the author of Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality. The book argues that there’s a dark underside to globalism, with massive amounts of money being spent on drugs, prostitutes, and other nefarious activities.
“We live in a world where we’re trapped in a web of commercial, economic and political illusions,” Napoleoni said on the April 3, 2008 edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!”
Twenty Things You Didn’t Know about Everything
Writer and marketing consultant Dean Christopher is the author of the new book Twenty Things You Didn’t Know About Everything. Christopher frequently contributes items to the Discover magazine column of the same name. Topics from this episode of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now include sex in space, duct tape, and death.
Investigative reporter’s new book explains Ahmad Chalabi
Investigative reporter Aram Roston is the author of The Man who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi. He joins Coy Barefoot on the March 25 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about the rise of the former mathematician who Roston claims engineered U.S. policy by rigorously lobbying for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Nancy Damon previews this week’s Virginia Festival of the Book
Nancy Damon is the Executive Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book, which kicks off this week here in Charlottesville. Two special programs kick off the event on Tuesday night and hundreds of events run through Sunday, March 30.
David McWilliams explores the Celtic Tiger in new book
David McWilliams is the author of The Pope’s Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland’s New Elite. Ireland’s baby boom happened two generations after America’s, and McWilliams became intrigued with the vast economic shift that occurred in his home country while he was away. He joined Coy Barefoot on the St. Patrick’s Day edition of WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss.
Diane Ackerman on her new book on World War 2 sanctuary
Diane Ackerman is the author of the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses, among many other books of non-fiction and poetry. Her essays on nature and human nature have appeared in National Geographic, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade and elsewhere. Ackerman’s new book is The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, and she joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss how the book came to be.
Dr. Atul Gawande seeks to make health care Better
The compulsion to do better touches us all as do the road blocks that impede our betterment: fatigue, inadequate resources and our imperfections. Yet, there is perhaps no other field in which improvement is more important than medicine, where the difference between saving or losing a life is in the smallest of details. Dr. Atul Gawande is a MacArthur Fellow and a general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a staff writer for the New Yorker magazine, as well as an associate professor of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Gawande’s new book is Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, and he joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now! to talk about ways to improve the health care system.