Jim Britt
10:00 - 12:00 noon
wsva@valleyradio.com

Jim lives in Weyers Cave with his wife Sue, known for her extraordinary culinary skills, and their two children.  He's been with the station since 1987.   Of course, Jim does Play by Play for High School Football and Basketball, and hosts the nationally syndicated In The Garden with Andre Viette on Saturday Mornings.

Jim takes listeners calls for regulars on Middays which  include gardening with Andre Viette,  all about pets with Mike Reisenberg, Ask The Governor, topical issues with Andy Schmookler, George Hansborough and Ben Fordney  with "The Civil War On The Air", Jim Bishop with Warped Records, Issues in Growth, and members of the governments of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

 

Here is the list of books recommended by George Hansbourgh and Ben Fordney on WSVA’s Civil War on the Air, Wednesday December 10^th, 2008:

 

• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• George Stoneman-A Biography of the Union General by Ben Fordney
• Lincoln and the Decision for War by Russell A. McClintoch
• Cavalryman of the Lost Cause. A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart by Jeff Wert
• Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign Shenandoah 1862 by Peter Cozzens
• Tried by War. Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James McPherson
• An African American Community of Hope 1869-1930 by Nancy Bondurant Jones
• Why Confederates Fought by Aaron Sheehan Dean
• Virginia at War 1863 by William C Davis, edited by James Robertson
• Confederate Struggle for Command; James Longstreet and the First Corp in the West by Alexander Mendoza
• One Continuous Fight; The Retreat from Gettysburg by Eric Wittenberg, Davit Petruzzi, Michael Nugent
• The Bath House Reader of the Civil War; Reading for your Private Moments by Sweet Water Press
• Sea of Gray: Around the World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider-Shenandoah by Tom Chafin
• Fields of Honor by Ed Beares
• How the South Could Have Won The Civil War by Bevin Alexander
• Operational Battlefield by a British Author
• The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpen Faust
• Saving Savannah. The City and the Civil War by Jaqueline Jones
• Ashes and Glory: Richmond at War by Ernest “Pat” Furgurson
• Chancellorsville; Gettysburg and Landscape Turned Red-Antietam: Books by Stephen Sears
• Where the South lost the Civil War-Forts Henry and Donaldson by Kendall Gort
• Battle at Bull Run by William C. Davis
• Extraordinary Circumstances-The 7 Days Campaign by Brian K. Burton
• Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by GFR Henderson
• Memories of P.H. Sheridan by Philip Sheridan
• Memoirs of U.S. Grant by U.S. Grant
• From Manassas to Appoma Hox by James Longstreet
• Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee by Robert E. Lee Jr.

 

 

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