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January 1, 2016 |
Ronald Shafer |
Featured discussion of Shafer's book The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” Changed Presidential Elections Forever.
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January 8, 2017 |
Rosemary Stevens |
Featured discussion of Stevens's book A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau.
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January 15, 2017 |
Maya MacGuineas |
Featured discussion of MacGuineas's experiences as president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
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January 22, 2017 |
Benjamin Ginsberg |
Featured discussion of Ginsberg's book What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People.
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January 29, 2017 |
John Nixon |
Featured discussion of Nixon's book Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein.
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February 5, 2017 |
Heather McGhee |
Featured discussion of McGhee's experiences as president of the think tank Demos, and her friendship with a caller to C-SPAN's Washington Journal program who asked her how he could become less prejudiced.
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February 12, 2017 |
Edward Jay Epstein |
Featured discussion of Epstein's book How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft.
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February 19, 2017 |
Barbara Feinman Todd |
Featured discussion of Todd's book Pretend I'm Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One Powerful First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp.
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February 26, 2017 |
Alexandra Wolfe |
Featured discussion of Wolfe's book Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story.
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March 5, 2017 |
Brody Mullins |
Featured discussion of Mullins's Wall Street Journal story, "The Rise and Fall of a K Street Renegade", about former lobbyist Evan Morris.
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March 12, 2017 |
Sandra Navidi |
Featured discussion of Navidi's book SuperHubs: How the Financial Elite and Their Networks Rule Our World.
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March 19, 2017 |
Sheelah Kolhatkar |
Featured discussion of Kolhatkar's book Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street.
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March 26, 2017 |
Thomas Sowell |
Featured discussion of Sowell's career and retirement.
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April 2, 2017 |
Michael Doran |
Featured discussion of Doran's book Ike's Gamble: America's Rise to Dominance in the Middle East.
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April 9, 2017 |
John Farrell |
Featured discussion of Farrell's book Richard Nixon: The Life.
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April 16, 2017 |
United States Senate Youth Program |
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April 23, 2017 |
David McCullough |
Featured discussion of McCullough's book The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For.
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April 30, 2017 |
Brad Snyder |
Featured discussion of Snyder's book The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism.
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May 7, 2017 |
Chris Cavas |
Featured discussion of the U.S. Navy's Fat Leonard scandal.
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May 14, 2017 |
Mark Cheathem |
Featured discussion of Cheathem's book Andrew Jackson, Southerner.
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May 21, 2017 |
T.R. Reid |
Featured discussion of Reid's book A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System.
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May 28, 2017 |
Malcolm Nance |
Featured discussion of Nance's books The Plot to Hack America and Hacking ISIS.
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June 4, 2017 |
Thomas Hazlett |
Featured discussion of Hazlett's book The Political Spectrum.
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June 11, 2017 |
Paul Sparrow |
Featured discussion of Sparrow's role as director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.
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June 18, 2017 |
David Garrow |
Part one of a discussion on Garrow's book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
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June 25, 2017 |
Robert Caro |
Featured discussion of Caro's audiobook On Power, and his experience writing the five-volume work The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
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July 2, 2017 |
Pat Buchanan |
Featured discussion of Buchanan's book Nixon’s White House Wars.
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July 9, 2017 |
Brooke Gladstone |
Featured discussion of Gladstone's book The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in our Time.
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July 16, 2017 |
Manal Al-Sharif |
Featured discussion of Al-Sharif's book Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening.
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July 23, 2017 |
David Garrow |
Part two of a discussion on Garrow's book Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
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July 30, 2017 |
Mark Bowden |
Featured discussion of Bowden's book Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam.
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August 6, 2017 |
Cate Lineberry |
Featured discussion of Lineberry's book Be Free or Die, about the life of Robert Smalls.
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August 13, 2017 |
Paul Butler |
Featured discussion of Butler's book Chokehold: Policing Black Men.
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August 20, 2017 |
Carl Cannon |
Featured discussion of Cannon's book On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time.
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August 27, 2017 |
Tom Ricks |
Featured discussion of Ricks's book Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom.
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September 3, 2017 |
Anthony Clark |
Featured discussion of Clark's book The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity & Enshrine Their Legacies.
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September 10, 2017 |
Adam Andrzejewski |
Featured discussion of Andrzejewski's role as the founder of the watchdog organization OpenTheBooks.
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September 17, 2017 |
Randall Eliason |
Featured discussion of Eliason's role as a federal prosecutor.
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September 24, 2017 |
Ann Telnaes |
Featured discussion of Telnaes' experience as an editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post.
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October 1, 2017 |
Scott Greenberger |
Featured discussion of Greenberger's book The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur.
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October 8, 2017 |
Wil Hylton |
Featured discussion of Hylton's New York Times Magazine article "Down the Breitbart Hole".
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October 15, 2017 |
William Taubman |
Featured discussion of Taubman's biography of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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October 22, 2017 |
Sherman Gillums, Jr. |
Featured discussion of Gillums' role as Executive Director of Paralyzed Veterans of America.
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October 29, 2017 |
Allison Stanger |
Featured discussion of Stanger's experience interviewing political scientist Charles Murray at Middlebury College in Vermont, and the subsequent incident that left her injured.
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November 5, 2017 |
Ron Chernow |
Featured discussion of Chernow's biography of Ulysses Grant.
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November 12, 2017 |
David Dalin |
Featured discussion of Dalin's book Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court.
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November 19, 2017 |
Daryl Davis |
Featured discussion of Davis's efforts to befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan and convince them of the error of their beliefs.
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November 26, 2017 |
Robert W. Merry |
Featured discussion of Merry's book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century.
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December 3, 2017 |
John Cogan |
Featured discussion of Cogan's book The High Cost of Good Intentions.
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December 10, 2017 |
Tiffany Wright |
Featured discussion of Wright's experience as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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December 17, 2017 |
Gordon S. Wood |
Featured discussion of Wood's book Friends Divided, about the relationship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
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December 24, 2017 |
Lee Edwards |
Featured discussion of Edwards' memoir, Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty.
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