Last Week's Guests

LIANE CARMEN, a former marketing employee for Coca-Cola, and now an author from Florida, joined us to discuss her "Investigation Duo" series, as well as her upcoming standalone book, "When Wings Flutter".

FROM HER WEBSITE:
"The idea behind Where the Truth Hides started when we had a family mystery to solve and turned to DNA testing. I might have become slightly obsessed. (Okay, I did.) We solved our mystery, but during our search, we also uncovered a secret or two. More than one person asked: is DNA ever wrong? After much research, I have found the simple answer. Families keep secrets, and people don't always tell the truth, but DNA doesn't lie.
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Now, some people don’t want to know the truth. They’re fine with keeping the past buried, and I can respect that. But writing fictional stories about the secrets – I couldn’t resist."
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https://lianecarmen.com

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JIM CAMPBELL, a noted radio show host and author, joined us to discuss his newest release, "Madoff Talks: Uncovering the Untold Story Behind the Most Notorious Ponzi Scheme in History".

FROM HIS AMAZON PAGE:
"In Madoff Talks, author Jim Campbell presents the most comprehensive, insider account of the Madoff saga to date. Based on exclusive interviews with all the players―the Madoff family and their associates, the Wall Street wheelers and dealers, the army of lawyers, analysts, and investigators, the victims of the scheme, and Bernie Madoff himself―the book reveals:

• what motivated a respected financier to commit such a massive fraud―and why he thought he could get away with it
• how Madoff managed to keep the scheme hidden in plain sight―despite numerous SEC investigations
• the shocking failures of Wall Street oversight―and how it could happen again
• the true scale of the investment losses―and the victims’ ongoing fight for justice
• what Ruth Madoff and the rest of the family knew―and how it shattered their lives."
  
  

https://www.amazon.com/Madoff-Talks-Uncovering-Biggest-History/dp/126045617Xhttp://www.campbellbiztalk.com/index.htm
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WILLIE DRYE, an author from North Carolina, joined us to discuss his release, "For Sale —American Paradise: How Our Nation Was Sold an Impossible Dream in Florida".
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FROM HIS AMAZON PAGE: 
"A tale of a colorful and tragicomic era during which the allure and illusion of the American Dream was on full display—a Jazz Age period when Americans started chasing what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the orgiastic future”—the book reveals how the recent economic collapse in Florida is eerily similar to events that happened there between 1925 and 1928. 

What sets the mid-1920s’ Florida land boom apart from more recent booms-and-busts, however, is that this was the first modern boom, the first time that emerging new technologies, mass communications and modern advertising techniques were used to sell the nation on the notion that prosperity and happiness are simply there for the taking."
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014W13IKG/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1

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