If you lived through the Watergate crisis (1972-1974), you probably remember a lot about what happened and about the major characters, such as John Dean, Richard Nixon, John Ehrlichman, etc. And you probably remember how it felt to have a new development in the story just about every day. It was an interesting, often thrilling, • Read More »
Tags: John Dean, John Ehrlichman, Leon Neyfakh, Martha Mitchell, podcast, Richard Nixon, Salon.com, Senate Watergate Committee, Slown Burn, Watergate
This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (4,431) on Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. Hi, A lot of you readers took the time to respond to various parts of the newsletter last week, and I have included some of those responses here. Thanks to you all. Your responses make great reading, and I • Read More »
Tags: Apocalyptic Fears, Bear Bryant, crimes against English, Dashiell Hammett, David Labaree, Firl Divided, Humphrey Bogart, Jeannette Walls, Pinkerton Detective Agency, podcast, Raymond Chandler, real crime podcasts, Rebecca West, Ronald Barak, Sam Spade, The Amendment Killer, The Glass Castle, The Vanished, true crime, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, Willow Rose
This newsletter was sent to everyone on Jim’s email list (4,204) on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. The state of Alabama plays a prominent role in this week’s newsletter. So does Edgar Allan Poe (again), James Whistler, and the Washington Post. The newsletters this week and next week are a bit shorter than usual because of the Christmas season. Next week I • Read More »
Tags: Ambrose Bierce, Brian Reed, Casefile, cozy mystery, Dirty John, Edgar Allan Poe, James Whistler, Murder on the Movie Set, Phifer Hall, podcast, real crime, Real Crime Profile, S-town, Sandi Scott, Sword and Scale, The Devil's Dictionary, This American Life, true crime, True Crime All the Time, University of Alabama, Washington Post, watercolor
This newsletter was sent to those on Jim’s email list (4,189) on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Hi, Last week’s entry about America’s first published poet, Anne Bradstreet, brought this from one of our newsletter readers, Robin K., who has done a good bit of genealogical research on her family: I thought that name looked familiar – I’m • Read More »
Tags: Ambrose Bierce, Anne Bradstreet, crimes against English, Dirty John, dulcimer, Elegy Written in a County Churchyard, folk music, folk songs, genealogy, Henry Van Dyke, Jean Ritchie, Kill the Quarterbak, Leonardo da Vinci, Mike Ferguson, Mike Gibson, misspelling, podcast, Point Spread, real crime podcasts, Real Crime Profile, Sword and Scale, The Devil's Dictionary, The Prolific Reader, Thomas Gray, True Crime All the Time, Walter Isaacson, watercolor