<p>In the second episode, I read excerpts from the following texts:<br/><br/></p><ul><li>*How Democracies Die* by Levitsky and Ziblatt -- here are the key signals for authoritarianism</li><li>*Ballpark: Baseball in the American City* by Paul Goldberger --  finding space for Yankee Stadium</li><li>*Frederick Douglass* by David Blight -- at the ten year anniversary of the assassination</li><li>*Queen Victoria* by Lucy Worsley -- Albert&apos;s Christmas trees</li><li>*Readings in Moby-Dick* -- &quot;Meanings of the Sea&quot; by William Hamilton -- water frees</li></ul>

Episode 3 -- First Crusading, Working Fascism, Poetic Voice, Hawaiian Plantations, Gen. Washington's grief

The world is full of great, contemporary nonfiction that non-academics rarely hear about. In this podcast, I read excerpts from contemporary nonfiction works in history, politics, art, literary analysis, theology, philosophy and more in the hope of teasing you into pursuing the whole book.