David speaks with CIA husband/wife duo Bob and Dayna Baer about their book The Company We Keep. The book examines the hardships of keeping a family together in a life shrouded in secrecy and how this led to Bob and Dayna’s relationship and ultimate marriage after years working together in the CIA.

David speaks with author Donna Johnson about her latest book Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir. As a child, Johnson spent her years traveling on the road as her mother worked as an organist for big tent revival preacher David Terrell. A truly polarizing figure, David Terrell spent his years preaching from town to town to more than 2000 worshipers at a time — many of whom gave enormously to Terrell with some selling all of their possessions to be on the road with Brother Terrell. Johnson’s book Holy Ghost Girl recounts the reverend and his travelling show in detail.

David speaks with Georgia Military College professor Jeffrey Wells about his new book The Atlanta Ripper: The Unsolved Case of the Gate City’s Most Infamous Murders. Between 1909 and 1915, a serial killer may have stalked the streets of Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, leaving as many as 20 bodies — mostly black women in their 20s — in his wake. Although many suspects were arrested, no one was ever identified as the Atlanta Ripper. A century later, authorities are still baffled as to the killer’s true identity.

David speaks with documentary filmmaker Joseph Dorman about his newest work on Sholem Aleichem, “Laughing in the Darkness.” Born Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich, Sholem Aleichem was a leading Yiddish playwright whose work Teyve the Milkman was the basis for the eventual musical Fiddler on the Roof. The documentary opens with Dorman in attendance on Friday, October 14 at Lefont Sandy Springs.

David speaks with Diana Henriques, a senior financial writer for the New York Times and author of the new book Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust. Less than two years after the downfall of Bernie Madoff and his Ponzi scheme, Henriques was the first reporter Madoff agreed to meet with personally. This book serves as the most accurate account in writing of what happened and more importantly what went wrong

Frequent CWDL guest Howard Hart joins David by telephone to talk about the future of Iraq at the end of the year once U.S. troops make their departure from the country. No stranger to Middle Eastern policy, former CIA spy Howard Hart unfolds his contention that the U.S. has backed itself into a damned-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t situation with the only possible outcome being an Iraqi civil war between the Shias and Sunnis.