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| January 3, 2016 |
Michael Ramirez |
Featured discussion of Ramirez's work as an editorial cartoonist.
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| January 10, 2016 |
Marty Baron |
Featured discussion of Baron's work as editor of The Boston Globe and The Washington Post.
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| January 17, 2016 |
Aviva Kempner |
Featured discussion of Kempner's documentary Rosenwald about the life of Julius Rosenwald.
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| January 24, 2016 |
Carlos Lozada |
Featured discussion of books written by candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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| January 31, 2016 |
Scott Christianson |
Featured discussion of Christianson's book 100 Documents that Changed the World: From the Magna Carta to Wikileaks.
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| February 7, 2016 |
Jesse Holland |
Featured discussion of Holland's book The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House.
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| February 14, 2016 |
Robert Gates |
Featured discussion of Gates's book A Passion for Leadership.
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| February 21, 2016 |
Bill Press |
Featured discussion of Press's book Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down.
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| February 28, 2016 |
Thomas Schatz |
Featured discussion of Schatz's experiences as president of Citizens Against Government Waste.
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| March 6, 2016 |
Robert Kaplan |
Featured discussion of Kaplan's book In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond.
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| March 13, 2016 |
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser |
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| March 20, 2016 |
Gabe Roth |
Executive director of Fix the Court, a judicial advocacy group
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| March 27, 2016 |
Robert J. Gordon |
Featured discussion of Gordon's book The Rise and Fall of American Growth.
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| April 3, 2016 |
U.S. Senate Youth Program |
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| April 10, 2016 |
Mary Sarah Bilder |
Featured discussion of Bilder's book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention.
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| April 17, 2016 |
Sally Denton |
Featured discussion of Denton's book The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, about Bechtel.
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| April 24, 2016 |
Ron Chernow |
Featured discussion of the musical Hamilton, which was based on Chernow's 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton.
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| May 1, 2016 |
Amy Goodman |
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| May 8, 2016 |
Zalmay Khalilzad |
Featured discussion of Khalilzad's memoir, The Envoy: From Kabul to the White House, My Journey Through a Turbulent World.
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| May 15, 2016 |
Adam Hochschild |
Featured discussion of Hochschild's book Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
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| May 22, 2016 |
Michael Kinsley |
Featured discussion of Kinsley's book Old Age: A Beginners Guide.
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| May 29, 2016 |
Betty Koed |
Featured discussion of Koed's work as Historian of the United States Senate.
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| June 5, 2016 |
Tammy Baldwin |
Featured discussion of Baldwin's experiences as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
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| June 12, 2016 |
Simon Sebag Montefiore |
Featured discussion of Montefiore's book The Romanovs: 1613-1918.
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| June 19, 2006 |
Jo Ann Jenkins |
Featured discussion of Jenkins's book Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age and her work as CEO of the AARP.
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| June 26, 2016 |
Arthur Herman |
Featured discussion of Herman's book Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior.
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July 3, 2016 (Part 1)
July 3, 2016 (Part 2) |
Mark Green |
Featured discussion of Green's book Bright, Infinite Future: A Generational Memoir on the Progressive Rise.
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| July 10, 2016 |
Gerard Robinson |
Featured discussion of Robinson's roles as Florida Education Commissioner and Virginia Secretary of Education.
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| July 17, 2016 |
Corey Pegues |
Featured discussion of Pegues's book Once a Cop: The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man about his career with the New York City Police Department.
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| July 24, 2016 |
Jean Edward Smith |
Featured discussion of Smith's book Bush, about former President George W. Bush.
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| July 31, 2016 |
Joshua Kendall |
Featured discussion of Kendall's book First Dads.
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| August 7, 2016 |
James Robertson |
Featured discussion of After the Civil War: The Heroes, Villains, Soldiers, and Civilians Who Changed America.
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| August 14, 2016 |
Clifton Raphael |
Featured discussion of Raphael's experiences teaching film and television production at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma.
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| August 21, 2016 |
Nancy Isenberg |
Featured discussion of Isenberg's book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.
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| August 28, 2016 |
Laurence Leamer |
Featured discussion of Leamer's books, including his 2016 book The Lynching.
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| September 4, 2016 |
Tom Fitton |
Featured discussion of Fitton's book Clean House: Exposing Our Government's Secrets and Lies.
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| September 11, 2016 |
David Cay Johnston |
Featured discussion of Johnston's book The Making of Donald Trump.
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| September 18, 2016 |
James Traub |
Featured discussion of Traub's book John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit.
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| September 25, 2016 |
Robert J. Samuelson |
Featured discussion of Samuelson's writings on economics as a columnist for the Washington Post.
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| October 2, 2016 |
John Podhoretz |
Featured discussion of Podhoretz's writings as a movie reviewer for The Weekly Standard.
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| October 9, 2016 |
N/A |
Q&A was not aired due to the second presidential debate of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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| October 16, 2016 |
Maureen Dowd |
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| October 23, 2016 |
J. D. Vance |
Featured discussion of Vance's memoir Hillbilly Elegy.
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| October 30, 2016 |
Larry Tye |
Featured discussion of Bobby Kennedy: Making of a Liberal Icon.
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| November 6, 2016 |
Candice Millard |
Featured discussion of Millard's book Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill.
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| November 13, 2016 |
Stephen Puleo |
Featured discussion of Puleo's book American Treasures.
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| November 20, 2016 |
Okey Ndibe |
Featured discussion of Ndibe's book Never Look an American in the Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American.
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| November 27, 2016 |
Edward Larson |
Featured discussion of Larson's book George Washington, Nationalist.
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| December 4, 2016 |
Ronald White |
Featured discussion of White's book American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant.
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| December 11, 2016 |
Brian Gruber |
Featured discussion of Gruber's book War: The Afterparty - A Global Walkabout Through a Half-Century of U.S. Military Interventions.
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| December 18, 2016 |
Robert Strauss |
Featured discussion of Strauss's book Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents.
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| December 25, 2016 |
Mark Danner |
Featured discussion of Danner's book Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War.
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