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A chat with WWI Intrigue Series author James Hockenberry and a look at a new book about the early 1900's on the Lower East Side

Send the Word is part of James Hockenberry's World War One Intrigue Series
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Send the Word is part of James Hockenberry's World War One Intrigue Series

On the September 7 WBGO Journal...

Host Doug Doyle chats with fiction author and Princeton resident James Hockenberry who has won numerous awards for his World War One Intrigue Series..

Fiction author James Hockenberry
James Hockenberry
Fiction author James Hockenberry

WBGO’s Jon Kalish tells us about a new book from Dan Slater that details a campaign in the early 1900’s to clean up the corrupt Lower East Side…..

The Incorruptibles is a new book from Dan Slater
Dan Slater
The Incorruptibles is a new book from Dan Slater

And WBGO’s Felix Hernandez has a Rhythm Revue Spotlight for us about the late songwriter Jerry Ragovoy

Jerry Ragovoy (center) recording with Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters in 1963.
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Jerry Ragovoy (center) recording with Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters in 1963.

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.