I still miss C-Span’s Booknotes, which was must-watch viewing for me in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but this is the next best thing. As Orrin Judd writes, “Brian Lamb, Terry Teachout and Louis Armstrong…what more could you ask?”
And for my own (audio) interview with Teachout on Pops and his earlier biography of H.L. Mencken, click here.
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