{"podcast":{"title":"C-SPAN Bookshelf","slug":"c-span-bookshelf-6416723","podcast_index_feed_id":6416723,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/CSPAN1559576942","website_url":"https://www.c-span.org/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/bf9c539e-fb2b-11ed-bd44-6ffd507af733/image/1.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"C-SPAN","episode_count":538,"summary":"The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T04:18:14.515371+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/c-span-bookshelf-6416723"},"episode":{"title":"Bruce Nichols, \"The Emerson Circle\"","slug":"bruce-nichols-the-emerson-circle","published_at":"2026-05-05T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/c-span-bookshelf-6416723/bruce-nichols-the-emerson-circle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/c-span-bookshelf-6416723","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSPAN6345283997.mp3?updated=1778173656","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSPAN6345283997.mp3?updated=1778173656","summary":"During his almost 40-year career in publishing, Bruce Nichols served as publisher of both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Little Brown & Company. His book is titled \"The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals Who Reinvented the World.\" The focus of the book is on famous names, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau. Author Nichols says \"The Emerson Circle\" is the story of this small group and the movements it inspired. He says it's not a comprehensive group biography. He suggests there are wonderful books about each member that go into far more detail. Bruce Nichols suggests their collective work represents a crucial cultural moment in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"During his almost 40-year career in publishing, Bruce Nichols served as publisher of both Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Little Brown & Company. His book i…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4052,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/c-span-bookshelf-6416723/episodes/bruce-nichols-the-emerson-circle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/c-span-bookshelf-6416723/bruce-nichols-the-emerson-circle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}