Unabridged: The Art of Oral History with Garrett M. Graff

Another bonus episode this month? Heck yes! We're doing a deep dive into oral history with friend of the pod, journalist, and oral historian, Garrett M. Graff. He has written three stellar books of oral history: The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb, When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day, and The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11. Today we get Garrett's insights into the key characteristics and importance of oral history, and the challenges that come with the form. We also spend some time on the decision to drop the atomic bomb, and workshop future oral history projects for Garrett.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes. You can also find what we talked about on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

• The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

• “The Short Stacks 21: Garrett M. Graff// Only Plane in the Sky” (The Stacks)

• Watergate by Garrett M. Graff

• UFO by Garrett M. Graff

• Washingtonian

• Politico

• Pamela Colloff

• Texas Monthly

• “96 Minutes” (Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly)

• From a Taller Tower by Seamus McGraw

• Studs Terkel

• The Boston Globe

• Ted Kennedy

• “We’re the Only Plane in the Sky” (Garrett M. Graff, Politico)

• Andy Card

• Carl Rove

• Ari Fleischer

• When the Sea Came Alive by Garrett M. Graff

• “The Malice at the Palace” (Jonathan Abrams, Grantland)

• “Rocked” (Bryan Curtis and Patricia Lee, Grantland)

• The National WWII Museum (New Orleans, LA)

• Manhattan Project

• Albert Einstein

• The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff (audiobook)

• American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

• Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan, 2023)

• The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

• The Come Up by Jonathan Abrams

• World War Z by Max Brooks

• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Hiroshima, Japan)

• Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham

• Dachau Concentration Camp

• Paul Tibbets

• Enola Gay

• Titanic

• My Soul Is Rested by Howell Raines

• Enron

• Bernie Madoff

• The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler

• Rudy Giuliani

• Larry Kramer

• Al Sharpton

• 30 for 30 (ESPN)

• Murder Trial of O.J. Simpson

• 1992 Los Angeles Riots

• Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith

• The Central Park Five

• The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

• “Ep. 54 The World Only Spins Forward by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois -- The Stacks Book Club (Ben Blacker)” (The Stacks)

• “An Oral History of the Day Everything Changed” (Garret M. Graff, Wired)

• Rudy Gobert

• Tom Hanks

• 24 Hours in Charlottesville by Nora Neus

• “Ep. 279 Inaction Is a Form of Police Brutality with Nora Neus” (The Stacks)

• 24 Hours at the Capitol by Nora Neus

• Storm at the Capitol by Mary Clare Jalonick

• Mississippi Book Festival (Jackson, MS)

  
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