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January 6, 2019 |
Keach Hagey |
Featured discussion of Hagey's book The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire about Sumner Redstone.
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January 13, 2018 |
James Grant |
Featured discussion of Grant's work as publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer.
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January 20, 2019 |
Patricia Miller |
Featured discussion of Miller's book Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took On Washington.
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January 27, 2019 |
Jane Leavy |
Featured discussion of Leavy's book The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created.
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February 3, 2019 |
Ron Liebman and Tim Baker |
Featured discussion of Liebman and Baker's experiences prosecuting Spiro Agnew.
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February 10, 2019 |
Helen Andrews |
Featured discussion of Andrews' article Shame Storm in First Things magazine.
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February 17, 2019 |
Monica Norton |
Featured discussion of the Washington Post column Norton wrote about James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk.
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February 24, 2019 |
Elizabeth Samet |
Featured discussion of Samet's annotated edition of the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant.
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March 3, 2019 |
Eileen Rivers |
Featured discussion of Rivers's book Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan.
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March 10, 2019 |
Amy S. Greenberg |
Featured discussion of Greenberg's book Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk.
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March 17, 2019 |
Matthew Hoh |
Featured discussion of Hoh's article "Time for Peace in Afghanistan and an End to the Lies".
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March 23, 2019 |
Robert Caro |
Featured discussion of Caro's book Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing.
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March 30, 2019 |
Joan Biskupic |
Featured discussion of Biskupic's book The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts.
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April 7, 2019 |
Douglas Brinkley |
Featured discussion of Brinkley's book American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.
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April 14, 2019 |
Susan Page |
Featured discussion of Page's book The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty.
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April 21, 2019 |
U.S. Senate Youth Program |
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April 28, 2019 |
David Brooks |
Featured discussion of Brooks's book The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.
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May 5, 2019 |
Harold Holzer and Amity Shlaes |
Featured discussion of the C-SPAN book The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America’s Best - and Worst - Chief Executives.
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May 12, 2019 |
David Maraniss |
Featured discussion of Maraniss's book A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father.
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May 19, 2019 |
David McCullough |
Featured discussion of McCullough's book The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West. This was the last Q&A program to feature Brian Lamb as its regular host.
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September 8, 2019 |
Margaret O'Mara |
Featured discussion of O'Mara's book The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America. This was the first Q&A program to feature Susan Swain as its host.
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September 15, 2019 |
Malcolm Gladwell |
Featured discussion of Gladwell's book Talking to Strangers.
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September 22, 2019 |
Kay Coles James |
Featured discussion of Coles's experiences as president of The Heritage Foundation.
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September 29, 2019 |
James Banner |
Featured discussion of Banner's book Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today.
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October 6, 2019 |
Peter Liebhold |
Featured discussion of the history of tariffs in the United States.
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October 13, 2019 |
Jeff Guinn |
Featured discussion of Guinn's book The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip.
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October 20, 2019 |
Alan Kraut |
Featured discussion of the history of immigration policies in the United States.
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October 27, 2019 |
Chris Arnade |
Featured discussion of Arnade's book Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America.
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November 3, 2019 |
Elizabeth Papez |
Featured discussion of the influence of several notable U.S. Supreme Court justices.
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November 10, 2019 |
Susannah Cahalan |
Featured discussion of Cahalan's book The Great Pretender, about the Rosenhan experiment.
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November 17, 2019 |
Pamela Constable |
Featured discussion of Constable's experiences as the Afghanistan/Pakistan bureau chief for the Washington Post.
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November 24, 2019 |
Lara Brown |
Featured discussion of the U.S. presidential nomination process.
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December 1, 2019 |
Patty Rhule |
Featured discussion of the history of press coverage American presidents.
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December 8, 2019 |
Holly Jackson |
Featured discussion of Jackson's book American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation
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December 15, 2019 |
Azra Raza |
Featured discussion of Raza's role as director of the Myelodysplastic Syndromes Center at Columbia University.
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