NEWS

**ABOUT GANGSTER HUNTERS:**

Interview on the American History Hit podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/outlaws-vs-the-fbi-j-edgar-hoovers-g-men/id1638918169?i=1000680569814

Interview on Gangland Wire podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XOhTfK9pAQ

Interview on a live blog radio broadcast from Fargo, North Dakota: https://www.blogtalkradio.com/attitudeeralive/2024/12/03/attitude-era-live-episode-393

Review in Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/gangster-hunters-review-the-good-guys-learn-to-fight-b0019dca

My interview on the “Most Notorious” podcast (scroll through first couple minutes of ads): https://www.mostnotorious.com/2024/11/27/gangster-hunters-w-john-oller/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG0LddleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHahuuJ4ulq2byLM-QzXvrjkgJZsm-eu0bjy-6cdkQPMI4ZEVjp9FY_Fx6w_aem_EFV-iIaps-cwLl1BZPSRAg

Illustrated youtube version of the “History Nerds United” podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9fDCAWv5WI

Interview on The Curious Man podcast: https://thecuriousmanspodcast.libsyn.com/john-oller-interview-episode-110

Review by the Guardian of London: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/27/gangster-hunters-fbi

Podcast on the “Ohio v. Crime” episode of “Ohio v. the World”. Parts 1 and 2: https://ohiovtheworldpodcast.com/2024/11/26/public-enemies-the-rise-of-the-gangsters-part-1/

https://ohiovtheworldpodcast.com/2024/12/03/season-8-finale-ohio-v-crime-part-2/

A recent podcast I did for HistoryNerds: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1872860/episodes/16165173

Review in the Sandusky (OH) Register: https://sanduskyregister.com/news/551883/new-book-chronicles-fbis-war-on-famous-gangsters/

Review in New York Post:https://nypost.com/2024/11/09/lifestyle/j-edgar-hoover-transformed-the-fbi-into-a-machine-of-law-and-order/

Some recent interviews I did: https://cloverlyacademy.com/?s=John+Oller

Here’s a link to the Amazon pre-order page:

https://www.amazon.com/Gangster-Hunters-Vanquished-Americas-Deadliest-ebook/dp/B0CW1HM3T9/ref=sr_1_4?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wCeBa-xU6LOY1JKPolZhjRI75sIZGMz30xUSE9A3ZnhllRIdciCl0AE22Yc3v9LQEkUAwaGF8ulkV7OHWov3cGqgwc4UQSND_Oc2NtuyuxIczM7XdXczPSCdcAHFhSEcnm3urlchRYJcLh9V8mJRhuMqbdi6ATz2pJQhXQ95BjcvVa1_meEmJaFZ5YtF5ZTYb1n7XOIzfJLF93DgiAnLTB_7RduQfz7_SfZQblqk_VI.N304OuZMPb0FV3901QF1AtEXRtVQUe0L4rmpymd78BM&dib_tag=se&qid=1709916518&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+Oller&s=books&sr=1-4

My new book, Gangster Hunters: How Hoover’s G-Men Vanquished America’s Deadliest Public Enemies,” is slated for publication by Dutton this fall. Here’s the cover (right):

**ABOUT ROGUES’ GALLERY:**

Here’s a 2022 video interview of me discussing both Rogues’ Gallery and White Shoe for the Woodlawn Cemetery Book Club where many of the characters from both books are buried (highlight and right-click):

https://history.nycourts.gov/podcasts/podcast-18/

Here’s a podcast I did today (October 19, 2021) on Rogues’ Gallery:

http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/making-the-world-safe-for-plutocracy-the-history-of-american-policing/

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Coming in September:

ABOUT WHITE SHOE:

Recent podcast on “Booka With Legs”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-book-with-legs/id1608960458

From my recent appearance at the New York Law Librarians’ Association book club, which discussed “White Shoe” then spelled it out.

Here’s a recent podcast interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65_lwCBcARM

Spoke to a small but enthusiastic group of the Legal History subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association on “White Shoe” on June 19, 2019.

Released on March 19, 2019. Here is the cover:

**ABOUT THE SWAMP FOX:**

July 4, 2022 podcast on the CBS radio network in which I’m inerviewed about Francis Marion (highlight and right-click):

https://art19.com/shows/cbs-audio-network-specials/episodes/0500dd1c-ec79-45fe-899c-2e6d0c1e7687/embed?fbclid=IwAR3wqOl1Iqpitwh2movgW65h_H40zzIiRPPYnlrUVPzCq9TByDIH4Dtd3YU

I spoke about The Swamp Fox on Feb. 13 2019 to a crowd of 200 at the Charleston Society

A recent interview for The Curious Man’s Podcast:
http://thecuriousmanspodcast.libsyn.com/john-oller-interview-ep-18?tdest_id=697834

Above: An enthusiastic crowd of 130 showed up at the David Library for Research in the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, PA for my “Swamp Fox” lecture on September 20, 2018.

The paperback is out! Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.

Was just advised that the publisher, Da Capo, plans to issue a paperback edition in spring 2018.

Above: D.A.R. in Washington, D.C. where I spoke on "Swamp Fox" on May 12, 2017

I spoke on "Swamp Fox" before a crowd of 115 at the Society of Cincinnati in Washington, D.C. on May 11, 2017 (above)

My radio interview with the book review website Readara:

http://www.readara.com/interview-jan-27-2017/john-oller-1/the-swamp-fox-how-francis-marion-saved-the-american-revolution/64

On January 19, 2017 I spoke on "Swamp Fox" at Fraunces Tavern, the historic site where George Washington gave his farewell military address in 1783

At the Book Fair at the Buckley School in Manhattan (below) I was one of the signing authors (November 14, 2016)

I did a reading/signing of "Swamp Fox" at the Barnes & Noble in Columbia, South Carolina on October 20.

I spoke on October 22, 2016 at the annual Francis Marion/Swamp Fox Symposium in Manning, South Carolina on "A patriot (but not 'The Patriot')"

My new book, "The Swamp Fox: How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution," has been published in October 2016 by Da Capo Press. Now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other sites.

ABOUT AMERICAN QUEEN:

A recent podcast in which I discuss Kate Chase, her father Salmon, and the famous Bradwell Supreme Court about women’s rights.

https:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-dissent-forgotten-by-history/id1533869725?i=1000498148552

A recent podcast about "American Queen" as part of the Ohio history series, "Ohio v. the World":

https://soundcloud.com/ohiovtheworld/episode-8-ohio-v-celebrity

On July 7, 2016 I spoke about "American Queen" to a group of about 60 at the North Shore Civil War Roundtable on Long Island.

My interview about Kate Chase on The Mike Slater Show (March 14, 2016):

http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kfmbam/podcast/audio/the_mike_slater_show_16472.mp3

October 5 lecture at Huron Public Library

June 26: I lectured on "American Queen" to the Narragansett Historical Society

June 7: "American Queen" has been named as one of five finalists for the Ohiana (Ohio Library Association) 2015 book awards, in the category of "by or about an Ohioan." Winners announced in July.

June 6: I participated in a panel on "Civil War Women" at the 2015 Biographers International Organization annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Guest Lecture on "American Queen" in Utica, NY at the Roscoe Conkling home (3 Rutger Park)--May 3, 2015

Sponsor: City Winery, NY Textbooks only outline the key players of our socio-historical conflicts to better elevate their status and mythologize them within our ideological assumptions. This is what we called the "Grand Narratives." But what about the "little narratives"? The lives of those millions of people whose contributions have made the "Grand Narratives" possible but have been forgotten?

This is a link to my TV appearance on Books Du Jour:

https://youtu.be/7C2HlYUIxxM

**ABOUT "Jean Arthur":**

A recent podcast I did on Jean Arthur (highlight and right-cick):

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jean-arthur-the-actress-nobody-knew/id1439746837?i=1000521263750

Below is my 2019 interview with Mountain Lake PBS television (Adirondacks’s Region) in conjunction with the unveiling of the new Jean Arthur mural in downtown Plattsburgh, NY, followed by my radio interview with the local Plattsburgh station:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuyhrEAYsho&feature=youtu.be

https://www.wamc.org/post/biographer-discusses-actress-jean-arthur-after-plattsburgh-unveils-building-size-mural

I was pleased to cooperate with New York governor Andrew Cuomo's office in providing for a "Walk of Fame" plaque for Jean Arthur at the new Adirondacks Welcome Center to open near Lake George this fall (2018). The plaque, which looks like a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star, will be one of the initial plaques to recognize famous persons with connections to the Adirondacks region.

Jean Arthur (Gladys Georgianna Greene) was born in 1900 in Plattsburgh, New York, in the Adirondacks region, and also lived in Saranac Lake, near Lake Placid, as a child.

The new plaque will supplement the one placed in Plattsburgh in 2015 (see below).

Jean Arthur Day and Plaque Unveiling in Plattsburgh, NY May 2, 2015

http://en.calameo.com/read/000257732a73a9d2ad7e1

The above link is to the Lake Champlain Weekly, which did a nice piece on me.

**More on American Queen:**

I spoke about "American Queen" on March 24 before about 100 people at the Cincinnati History Museum. While there, I stayed in the hotel in Cincinnati's beautiful old Art Deco skyscraper, the Carew Tower. This is the hotel's Palm Court, which looks l… — I spoke about "American Queen" on March 24 before about 100 people at the Cincinnati History Museum. While there, I stayed in the hotel in Cincinnati's beautiful old Art Deco skyscraper, the Carew Tower. This is the hotel's Palm Court, which looks like something out of a 1930s Hollywood movie.

Today's (Jan. 30 2015) radio interview with Tim Danahey in Colorado:

http://danahey.com/book-hour-american-queen-the-rise-and-fall-of-kate-chase-sprague/

Two reviews in today's (January 11, 2015) Sunday papers, one from the Columbus Dispatch and the other from the New York Times:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2015/01/11/01-no-shrinking-violet.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/books/review/american-queen-by-john-oller.html?_r=0

My radio interview with Dr. Alvin Jones can be heard here:

http://www.dralvin.net/american-queen-the-rise-and-fall-of-kate-chase-sprague-civil-war-belle-of-the-north-and-gilded-age-woman-of-scandal-by-john-oller-chats-with-dr-alvin/

My book launch party on October 30 at the Redeye Grill in Manhattan was a big success. About 40 attended, including a dozen descendants of Kate Chase, and one of Nettie's great grandsons. Ninety-two-year old Ann Donaldson, who knew Kate's daughters Ethel and Portia, was there. Several people came in period costume, among them professor Richard Vangermeersch as Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase.

About American Queen:

My radio interview on November 11 with Dr. Alvin Jones:

http://www.dralvin.net/american-queen-the-rise-and-fall-of-kate-chase-sprague-civil-war-belle-of-the-north-and-gilded-age-woman-of-scandal-by-john-oller-chats-with-dr-alvin/

Today (November 3) American Queen reached #4 on Amazon among Civil War book about women (really #3 since 1 and 2 are the same book, different formats).

American Queen is now available through Amazon and other internet booksellers and is on the physical shelves at Barnes & Noble.