Episodes
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
The Golden Age of NY Baseball with Baseball Legend Ralph Branca and Alan Rosenberg
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting “The Advocates” on WVOX- 1460 AM. Our special guest today is Ralph Branca, who grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, graduated from AB Davis HS, and New York University. He is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1944 through 1956, Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944-53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953-54), and New York Yankees (1954). He batted and threw right-handed. Branca was known as a very good starter during his years in Brooklyn. Branca debuted on June 12, 1944 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and put up a 3.04 ERA in 109.2 innings pitched in 1945, his rookie year. A three-time All-Star, he won 80 games for the Dodgers with a career-high 21 wins in 1947. Mr. Branca who has spent over 50 years in the insurance industry, is affiliated with Strategies For Wealth in Rye Brook, NY. Also today is Alan D. Rosenberg, who will serve as our guest panalist. Alan, who is another native Mount Vernonite, also graduated from AB Davis and New York University. He is a long-time CPA, who has offices in both New York City and Scarsdale and is an avid sports fan and memorabilia collector.
Today’ program will focus on the “Golden Age” of New York baseball 1947-57, during which Ralph Branca played a pivotal role. We also discuss how the sport has changed over the past 60 years and how it grew into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Ralph will also tell us in his words what “the shot heard round the world” was really about!
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
Basketball and Its Impact on Inner City Youth with Cal Ramsey and Alan Rosenberg
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at 12:00 Noon, I will be hosting my show “The Advocates” on WVOX- 1460 AM. My special guest is Mr. Cal Ramsey, a native of Selma, Alabama as a youth, has been part of the NYC athletic landscape for over fifty years. Since his graduation from NYU in 1959, where he starred in basketball as an All-American, he still holds many team records and was a member of NYU’s Scholastic Honor Society. Because of his excellent career on the hard courts, he has been enshrined in a number of regional sport’s hall of fames. He is even a member of the famed Friar’s Club. After two seasons in the NBA with both the old St. Louis Hawks and the NY Knicks, his basketball career was cut short by a knee injury. He then began work in the NY Public Schools. He has devoted his life to working with the youth of NYC with regards to an emphasis on education and staying-in-school. Mr. Ramsey has had a three decade career in broadcasting and public relations with the NY Knicks, and has also devoted his considerable energies to NYU’s alumni affairs department.
Also today we have Alan D. Rosenberg, who will serve as our guest panelist. Alan, who is a native Mount Vernon, graduated from AB Davis/MVHS and New York University. He is a long-time CPA, who has offices in both New York City and Scarsdale and is an avid sports fan and memorabilia collector. Alan also played basketball for NYU, and has been heavily active in NYU alumni affairs. Mr. Rosenberg has appeared twice before on The Advocates; September 27, 2007 and May 7, 2008. One can access these two shows, which discussed “The Art of Collecting,” and “How Baseball Has Changed, with Ralph Branca,” along with the total archive,
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Northing to Fear-FDR and America- Adam Cohen
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Adam Cohen, author of Nothing to Fear, FDR’s Inner Circle and the Hundred Day that created Modern America, and a member of the NY Times’ editorial board. His book can be found at the Penguin Book site: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781594201967,00.html
Our subject will be his book, and its relevance to today’s America and his thoughts on what is happening vis-à-vis: politics, government, and new era anti-politics.
Adam Cohen is a lawyer and an author, who has a particular interest in legal issues, politics and technology. Before joining the Times editorial board in 2002, he was a senior writer at Time, where he wrote about the Supreme Court, Internet privacy and the Microsoft antitrust case, among other topics.
Prior to entering journalism, he was an education-reform lawyer, and a lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. He is the author of, "The Perfect Store: Inside eBay" and co-author of "American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley, His Battle for Chicago and the Nation." A native of Manhattan, he is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Nazis in America- John Loftus
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, January 18, 2012, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM my guest is John Loftus and we are going to discuss “Nazis in America, and how they got there and why.”
John J. Loftus is a former Army Officer, former Federal Prosecutor and noted historian. He is included among the few ever to have held COSMIC security clearances, including code word, NATO, and nuclear Top Secrets. For decades he has worked without pay as an attorney to help other law abiding intelligence agents blow the whistle on government corruption. He is the author of seven books, two of which were international best sellers and one was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Loftus is a graduate of Boston College (BA, 1971) and Suffolk University (JD, 1977). He served in the U.S. Army from 1971 to 1974, attaining the rank of First Lieutenant. He began working for the US Department of Justice in 1977 and in 1979 joined their Office of Special Investigations, which was charged with prosecuting and deporting Nazi war criminals in the US.
His 60 Minutes expose of Nazis war criminals working for US intelligence won the 1982 Emmy Award for outstanding investigative journalism. Since then he has been a frequent intelligence contributor for network television including CNN, ABC, and Fox. Several of his books have been made into television movies. American Secrets, a documentary film about his research into America’s finest families who funded Hitler, will soon be released in movie theaters nationwide. Now that the classification clock has expired after thirty years, Mr. Loftus’ most recent book, America’s Nazi Secret, reveals for the first time what the US Justice Department has been censoring from the view of the American people. He rips the lid off the US connection to the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, and other Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
Mr. Loftus currently lives in St. Petersburg, Florida and writes a weekly intelligence column, Spyview, for Ami Magazine in New York. He is the President of the international Intelligence Summit, and is the past President (and first Irish Catholic President) of the Florida Holocaust Museum.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Espionage and Resistance in Europe during WW II- Alan Furst
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, November 16, 2011, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is author Alan Furst and our discussion is about his writings that take place in Europe during the period right before WWII along with the early years of its conflict, regarding the average European, who is caught up in the intrigue and resistance.
Alan Furst was born and raised in Manhattan. He lived in the South of France—as a Fulbright Teaching fellow at the Faculte des Lettres at the University of Montpellier, then in Seattle, where he worked for the City of Seattle Arts Commission.
He wrote for magazines—travel pieces and book reviews for Esquire, and wrote and published four novels. Returning to France, he lived in Paris, wrote a weekly column for The International Herald Tribune, and wrote his first historical espionage novel, Night Soldiers (Houghton Mifflin, 1988). This was followed by Dark Star (Houghton Mifflin,1991), The Polish Officer (Random House, 1995), The World at Night (Random House, 1996), Red Gold (Random House, 1999), Kingdom of Shadows (Random House, 2000), Blood of Victory (Random House, 2002), Dark Voyage (Random House 2004), The Foreign Correspondent (Random House 2006), The Spies of Warsaw (Random House 2008) and Spies of the Balkans (random House 2010.)
All the above titles are available from Random House Trade Paperbacks, and in the United Kingdom from Orion Books. His novels have been translated into seventeen languages.
In 2002, Alan Furst was featured in an advertisement for Absolut vodka, for which he wrote the copy, in the style of his novels.
Furst received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1962 and an M.A. from Penn State in 1967.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Frances Perkins-America's Greatest Cabinet Secretary- Dr. Chris Breiseth
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 12:00 Noon, I will be hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Dr. Chris Breiseth, the Chairman of the Board of the Frances Perkins Center, of Damariscotta, Me.
Dr. Christopher N. Breiseth is the immediate past president and CEO of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, which is located at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. He served in that position from 2001 to 2008. He was president of Deep Springs College in California from 1980 to 1983 and of Wilkes University from 1984 to 2001. He earned his B.A. in history at UCLA, a Masters of Literature in Modern British History from Oxford and a Ph.D. in European History from Cornell.
While at Cornell, he lived at the Telluride House, where Frances Perkins was a guest for the last five years of her life. During that period she taught at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Together, Breiseth and Miss Perkins organized two seminars for house members, one with Henry A. Wallace, the other with James Farley. Following Miss Perkins's death in 1965, Breiseth wrote an article, "The Frances Perkins I Knew," which provides some of the material on Frances Perkins's life at Telluride House for Kirstin Downey's book, "The Woman Behind the New Deal." The article is available on line. He also served for a year and a half in 1967 and 1968 as Chief of Policy Guidance for the Community Action Program which was part of the Office of Economic Opportunity, President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Klara's Journey- A flight to freedom- Ben Frank
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at 11:00 am, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Ben G. Frank, journalist, travel writer and author of Scattered Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond.
Ben G. Frank, author, journalist, is considered one of this country’s most distinguished travel writers and commentators on Jewish communities around the world.
With the publication of The Scattered Tribe, Traveling the Diaspora from Cuba to India to Tahiti & Beyond, he breaks new ground in reporting on far-flung exotic Jewish outposts
He is the author of A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe 3rd edition, A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia and Ukraine and A Travel Guide to the Jewish Caribbean and South America.
A former newspaper reporter with the New Haven Register and Elizabeth Daily Journal, he has published articles in Hadassah Magazine, Reform Judaism Magazine, National Jewish Monthly of B’nai B’rith, Jewish Frontier, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Press, Jewish Exponent, Jewish Week, as well as The New Haven Register, Inside Chappaqua Magazine, and Inside Magazine, Philadelphia, PA.
His books have been cited and reviewed in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, Pittsburgh Press, the Miami Herald, and Journal News, White Plains, N.Y.
Frank has given talks at Jewish Book Fairs, synagogues and temples. His many lectures include, “Tolerance and Identity: Jews in Early New York, 1654–1825,” at the Museum of the City of New York, as well as a talk at the 92nd Street Y. He has appeared on hundreds of radio and TV talk-shows.
He is a B.A., cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and an M.A. graduate of the Center of Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University. He has been active in such professional organizations as the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Overseas Press Club, the American Jewish Public Relations Society and the Pacific Area Travel Association.
Frank is president of The Frank Promotion Corp., a public relations firm, specializing in radio-tv talk-shows.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
The Myths of the Southern Secession -Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, February 16, 2011, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Professor Anne Sarah Rubin and our subject is the “Myths of Southern Secession,” in the 150th year since the start of the American Civil War.
Anne Sarah Rubin is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her book A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy (UNC, 2005) received the 2006 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the most original book on the Civil War era. She was a co-author of the award-winning Valley of the Shadow, an interactive history of the Civil War in two communities. She is currently working on a multi-media study of the memory of Sherman's March, entitled Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and America, for which she received a 2007 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship. She graduated with a BA from Princeton University and was awarded an MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
The Republican Right vs. Chrisitianity -David Kennedy
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, January 4, 2012, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest in the first show of 2012 is David M. Kennedy.
David was born and raised in Sherman, Texas, a part of the country he now calls the safe harbor for conservative hypocrisy. At the age of 53, he and his wife of 30 years moved to Ridgway, Colorado, which they now call home. Ridgway is the location for the filming of the original True Grit.
By profession, David is a trial lawyer who has focused the last 20 years of his practice to the representation of those injured and abused in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. He has lectured on elderly abuse, the detection and prevention of the same, and is a firm believer that government funded programs are vital to the very health and safety of our seniors. He also believes the conservative movement in this country that directly attacks the social safety nets, as well as efforts at tort reform, have and will result in even more neglect to the most vulnerable among us.
Raised a Baptist, David credits the Christian Coalition=s Voter Guide push in America=s churches as his wake-up call that something was seriously amiss within established Christian denominations, and that was the influential politics of the Christian Right. Due to the undesirable presence of conservative politics, David moved his family from his life-long church to a new Baptist church, becoming the chairman of deacons and one of the first elders chosen to lead that church. He then left with others to establish a non-denominational church that became the first religious organization to be permitted to hold church in the local public school district facilities of his community.
Hearing the constant rhetoric of the approaching 2010 elections, David decided it was time to rededicate his life to his Christian faith. His first act was to author You Voted For Who? And You Call Yourself A Christian?, the title being the actual quoted rebuke his wife received from one of her conservative Christian friends upon being told that she had voted for Barack Obama. The book applies a biblical analysis to challenge that conservative mantra of the usual political wedge issues that always drives the evangelical Christians to support the Republican Party. The book may be purchased through his website dedicated to fighting what he calls the good fight against the Christian Right, as well as on Amazon.com.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
The Tea Party, Conservatism and the Courts-Jeffrey Rosen
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Wednesday, January 12, 2011, at 12:00 Noon, I am hosting my show, The Advocates on WVOX- 1460 AM, my guest is Professor Jeffrey Rosen, of George Washington University’s School of Law, and our subject is: the Courts, Conservatism and the Tea Party. This past Sunday’s NY Times’ Week in Review section, featured on the front page Professor Rosen’s article, “If Scalia Had His Way…”, please read!
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at The George Washington University, and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. He also is the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.
Professor Rosen's essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the 10 best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him, "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator."