Hello friends and welcome back to the Bill Press Pod.

Our guest in this podcast is David Marinus, a favorite author of mine and one of the best and most versatile writers in America today.

David's interested in and writes a lot about almost

everything. On sports, for example, he's written books about legendary coach Vince Lombardi

and baseball great Roberto Clemente. On politics, he's published best-selling biographies

of both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. In another book, he's published best-selling biographies of both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

In another book, he chronicled the collapse of the once great city of Detroit.

His latest book called A Good American Family is a lot more personal.

It's about himself, his family, and especially his father. David documents how his family

suffered way back in the 1950s when his father, a World War II vet, an editor of the local

paper, lost his job and his career when he was falsely accused of being a communist agent and called to testify

before the notorious House on American Activities Committee. It's a true story and a frightening

story which David told me all about recently in front of an audience at the Hill Center on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

So David, let me start there. I mean, your club books and you look back, they include

sports figures, book about the city of Detroit, books about presidents, the 1960 Olympics,

the Vietnam anti-war protests, big, big, big scale.

And on this one, you're focusing on your family to go from all that big down to your home?

It was different, certainly.

I'd spent much of my career as a biographer delving into the lives of people

who were strangers to me at the beginning. And after four years of research, they became familiar.

And here I was dealing with my father and mother who were intimately familiar to me, but I was

afraid that using the same methodology

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