Gary Shapiro’s From The Bookshelf
Hosted by Gary Shapiro · Gary Shapiro
4.6from 27 ratings
- 69
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 27
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Gary Shapiro’s From The Bookshelf
From the Bookshelf is heard on radio station KSQD in Santa Cruz California. Host Gary Shapiro brings you interviews with best selling authors of fiction and non-fiction, graphic novelists, actors, photographers, and singer-songwriters discussing their works. Your comments are welcome! Email us at gary@rattlebrain.com
- Publisher
- Gary Shapiro
- Category
- arts · music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 69 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Alexandra Natapoff
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Peter M. Hoffman
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Tess Gerritsen ~ Monty Roberts
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Alexandra Natapoff
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's a really arresting essay. I'll try to, without being a spoiler, I'll try to boil it down a little bit. She points out, of course, that legally speaking, constitutionally speaking, the power to declare war is clearly given to Congress. Congress shall have the power to declare war. It's not ambiguous. And yet... As she describes, ever since Vietnam, in fact, the president has quietly or not so quietly, I should say, but been encroaching on and usurping that power, declaring hostilities, even declaring war without congressional approval. And she tells us the story of that erosion slash abdication on the part of Congress. over the decades and gives us some backroom conversations between Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress over the war powers. […]
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- Alexandra Natapoff
- Peter M Hoffman
- Tess Gerritsen
- Shelley Curtis
- David Thomson
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- 4.6 / 5
- 27 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100
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- 69
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Gary Shapiro’s From The Bookshelf?
Gary Shapiro host the show. Published by Gary Shapiro.
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