Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Dan Schlossberg, author of "Home Run King: The Remarkable Record of Hank Aaron." The book was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the moment when Hank Aaron hit home run #715, breaking the long standing career home run record of Babe Ruth.

Philanthropist Salah Bachir talks about his memoir "First to leave the party: My life with ordinary people .... who happen to be famous." The book recounts his encounters with a wide array of celebrities, including Liza Minnelli, Stephen Sondheim, Jessye Norman, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, and many others.

Eliza Knight, author of "The Queen's Faithful Companion: A novel of Queen Elizabeth II and her beloved Corgi, Susan." The novel covers Elizabeth's life from her 18th birthday to just after she ascended to the throne .... tracing those events through three perspectives: young Elizabeth, a young servant named Hannah, and Elizabeth's beloved corgi Susan.

We speak with two representatives of the national organization Braver Angels, which seeks to facilitate more meaningful dialogue between people on both sides of our country's political divide. We speak with David Lapp, who co-founded the organization in 2016, and Cameron Swallow, who is co-chair of the national Braver Angels convention that is taking place at Carthage College this coming weekend.

Dr. Art Cyr, a professor at Carthage College and a nationally syndicated columnist, joins us to talk about recent elections for the EU Parliament, U.S. ties with Australia, and former president Donald Trump.

James Parker talks about his book "Get me thru the next five minutes: Odes to being alive." Parker, a staff writer at THE ATLANTIC, was approached by his editors and asked to create some sort of monthly feature that would appear on the inside back cover. He ultimately began writing a series of odes - poems or essays in praise of something or somebody. What sets his odes apart is that most of them are written in praise of unlikely things such as Procrastination ..... Difficult People ..... Crying Babies. The book is an entertaining and thought-provoking exercise in broadening one's sense of gratitude.

From 2008- Afghan novelist Khalid Hosseini ("The Kite Runner") talks about his novel "A Thousand Splendid Suns."

For Pride Month- from 2017: Susan Stryker talks about her book "Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution." The book was originally released in 2008. This interview was done at the time that its second edition was released.

We speak with best-selling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood about how collaborate in writing thrillers- and talk about their latest novel, "Red Star Falling."

From 2015: Linda Flashinski talks about her book "In what light there is," a collection of some of the essays she wrote for her column of the same name that was published for a number of years in the Racine Journal Times. Linda is known to many WGTD listeners as a very capable co-host of our weekend program "Education Matters" as well as a limited series titled "Heroes in our midst." For many years, she worked for the Racine Unified School District.

From 2015- John Feinstein, author of "Where nobody knows your name: Life in the minor leagues of baseball."

Advice Columnist Amy Dickinson ("Ask Amy") is ending her column after a 21-year run. This archival interview was recorded back in 2005. Amy Dickinson's final column will be published on Sunday, June 30th.

This is the complete interview I recorded with Holly Stanfield last week in which we talked about her distinguished career with the Kenosha Unified School District - and her final KUSD production ("Between the Lines") which is performed Thursday and Friday of this week before the cast and crew take it to the International Thespian Festival.

From 2019 - Parker J. Palmer, author of "On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old."

From 2007 - Phillip Lerman, author of "Dadditude: How a Real Man became a Real Dad."

Kailyn Palomares pays her monthly visit to the Morning Show with a conversation about the removal of the Horlick Dam. Joining her is Dave Giordano, executive director of Root-Pike WIN, and Monte Osterman, chair of the Racine County Land and Water Conservation Association.

We speak with Brian Mullgardt, professor of history at Millikin Univerisity, talks about his book "Wear some armor in your hair: Urban renewal and the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Lincoln Park." Professor Mullgardt is speaking to Adventures in Lifelong Learning tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2:00. More information can be found at uwp.edu.

We talk about Racine's Violent Crime Reduction Initiative with John Tate II, director of the Dept. of Community Safety .... Jessie Metoyer, deputy chief of the Racine Police Department .... and Maurice Horton, Racine County Violence Prevention Manager.

Jimmie James talks about his memoir "Playing from the Rough: A Personal Journey through America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses." James, an executive at Exxon who retired at the age of 58, undertook the challenge of playing the 100 greatest American golf courses as ranked by Golf Digest ... and to do so within one calendar year. The book is about much more than the golf courses; it's about the people he met as he came to reacquaint himself with America itself; it was also the experience of coming to terms with his own childhood, which was marked by severe poverty.

Boyce Upholt talks about his new book "The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi."