Psychjourney Audio Book Club

Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money

MP3 File  Length-29 minutes, 44 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Stuart Vyse, author of Going Broke: Why Americans Can't Hold On To Their Money published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Stuart Vyse

Stuart Vyse is a professor of psychology at Connecticut College in New London, CT. He earned BA and MA degrees in English literature at Southern Illinois University and MA and PhD degrees in psychology at the University of Rhode Island. He has published over thirty professional articles and book chapters on topics including autism, skepticism, belief in the paranormal, and behavior analysis. He began teaching at Connecticut College in 1986, and he has chaired the Department of Psychology on two occasions.   

Vyse’s first book Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition (Oxford, 1997) won the 1999 William James Book Award of the American Psychological Association and was translated into German and Japanese. Visit his website.

Length-39 minutes, 20 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jason Sokol, author of  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 published by Vintage.

Dr. Jason Sokol

Jason Sokol grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of basketball. He attended Oberlin College, and double-majored in History and Philosophy. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 with Highest Honors in History. From 1997 to 2000, he worked variously for the Springfield Union-News, the New Haven Advocate, and The Nation. Jasons writings on American history, politics, and race have appeared in those publications, among several others.

He received his doctorate in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Leon Litwack. His dissertation would become the basis for There Goes My Everything. Jason moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2005 and served as a Non-Resident Fellow at Harvard? W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In that capacity, he worked on assorted television projects dealing with African-American History.

Jason is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with the playwright Nina Louise Morrison.

Jason was recently named one of America's "Top Young Historians" by the History News Network.  Visit his website.

Length-52 minutes, 27 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr.  Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War  published by Viking Adult.

Mr. Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant writes an online column that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on America’s long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. Until recently he worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group. Bageant and his wife recently downsized their lives in America so that Joe could spend half the year in Belize, where he writes and sponsors a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village.  Visit his website.

Read a Q & A with Joe Bageant about his book Deer Hunting With Jesus.

There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

Length-39 minutes, 20 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Jason Sokol, author of  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975 published by Vintage.

Dr. Jason Sokol

Jason Sokol grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of basketball. He attended Oberlin College, and double-majored in History and Philosophy. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1999 with Highest Honors in History. From 1997 to 2000, he worked variously for the Springfield Union-News, the New Haven Advocate, and The Nation. Jasons writings on American history, politics, and race have appeared in those publications, among several others.

He received his doctorate in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Leon Litwack. His dissertation would become the basis for There Goes My Everything. Jason moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2005 and served as a Non-Resident Fellow at Harvard? W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In that capacity, he worked on assorted television projects dealing with African-American History.

Jason is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University. He lives in Ithaca, New York, with the playwright Nina Louise Morrison.

Jason was recently named one of America's "Top Young Historians" by the History News Network.  Visit his website.

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

Length-52 minutes, 27 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr.  Joe Bageant, author of Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War  published by Viking Adult.

Mr. Joe Bageant

Joe Bageant writes an online column that has made him a cult hero among gonzo-journalism junkies and progressives. He has been interviewed on Air America and comments on America’s long history of religious fundamentalism in the BBC/Owl documentary The Vision: Americans on America. Until recently he worked as a senior editor for the Primedia History Magazine Group. Bageant and his wife recently downsized their lives in America so that Joe could spend half the year in Belize, where he writes and sponsors a small development project with the Black Carib families of Hopkins Village.  Visit his website.

Read a Q & A with Joe Bageant about his book Deer Hunting With Jesus.