Sleeper Cab Library

Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

Larry Tye

McCarthy’s own daughter gave Tye exclusive access to her father’s personal and professional papers that had been under lock-and-key for sixty years. And that was just the start. Catch Larry Tye 8/5 at 8am ET.

The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age

Steve Olson

On 7/29 at 10am ET, science writer Steve Olson explains how plutonium was manufactured at the first full-scale nuclear reactor in the world located in Washington State.

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Live of a Double Murder in Appalachia

Emma Copley Eisenberg

Catch this investigation of the murder of two young women, and how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community, on 8/1 at 9:30am ET.

Not a Gentleman's Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road

Gerald Koeppel

On 8/2 at 8:30am ET, Gerard Koeppel combines history with true crime, revealing long-buried evidence from the most notorious murder in American nautical history.

The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice

David Hill

An almost novelistic work of character-driven history that tells the story of Hot Springs' heyday as a destination for illegal gambling and vice from the 1930s to the '60s. Hill joins us 8/1 at 8:30am ET.