First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter
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April 2, 1989 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the 20th Century |
Communism
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April 9, 1989 |
Judy Shelton |
The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets |
The Economy of the Soviet Union
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April 16, 1989 |
Bruce Oudes |
From: The President—Richard Nixon's Secret Files |
Richard Nixon
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April 23, 1989 |
Susan Moeller |
Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat |
War photography
|
April 30, 1989 |
Henry Brandon |
Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoirs |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
|
May 7, 1989 |
Col. David Hackworth |
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior |
Memoir/Autobiography; The Vietnam War
|
May 14, 1989 |
James Fallows |
More Like Us: Making America Great Again |
Japan – United States relations; Economy of Japan
|
May 21, 1989 |
Gregory Fossedal |
The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution |
Democracy promotion
|
May 28, 1989 |
Stanley Karnow |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines |
Philippine–American War
|
June 4, 1989 |
James MacGregor Burns |
The Crosswinds of Freedom |
History of the United States (1918–1945); History of the United States (1945–1964); History of the United States (1964–1980); History of the United States (1980–1991)
|
June 11, 1989 |
Robert Christopher |
Crashing the Gates: The De-WASPing of America's Power Elite |
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants; Elitism
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June 18, 1989 |
Sen. Robert Byrd |
The Senate: 1789-1989 |
History of the United States Senate
|
June 25, 1989 |
Elizabeth Colton |
The Jackson Phenomenon: The Man, The Power, The Message |
Jesse Jackson
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July 2, 1989 |
Nathaniel Branden |
Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand |
Ayn Rand
|
July 9, 1989 |
Roger Kennedy |
Orders From France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World (1780–1820) |
The French Revolution; The U.S. Constitution; France – United States relations
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July 14, 1989 |
Simon Schama |
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution |
The French Revolution
|
July 16, 1989 |
George Wilson |
Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army |
The United States Army; Category:United States Army education
|
July 23, 1989 |
Jeanne Simon |
Codename: Scarlett—Life on the Campaign Trail by the Wife of a Presidential Candidate |
Senator Paul Simon; Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1988
|
July 30, 1989 |
Michael Kaufman |
Mad Dreams, Saving Graces: Poland—A Nation in Conspiracy |
Poland; History of Poland (1945–1989)
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August 6, 1989 |
Porter McKeever |
Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy |
Adlai Stevenson
|
August 13, 1989 |
Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates |
The Acting President |
Ronald Reagan
|
August 20, 1989 |
Bruce Murray |
Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration |
Space exploration; NASA; Space advocacy
|
August 27, 1989 |
Jack Germond and Jules Witcover |
Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988 |
1988 United States presidential election
|
September 3, 1989 |
Walter Laqueur |
The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost |
Glasnost
|
September 10, 1989 |
Thomas Friedman |
From Beirut to Jerusalem |
Journalism; Middle East
|
September 17, 1989 |
Gen. Ariel Sharon |
Warrior: An Autobiography |
Memoir/Autobiography; History of the Israel Defense Forces
|
September 24, 1989 |
George Gilder |
Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology |
Quantum mechanics; Microtechnology
|
October 1, 1989 |
Mort Rosenblum |
Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
|
October 8, 1989 |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class |
American middle class
|
October 15, 1989 |
Harrison Salisbury |
Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June |
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
|
October 22, 1989 |
Kenneth Adelman |
The Great Universal Embrace, Arms Summitry—A Skeptic's Account |
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Geneva Summit (1985); Reykjavík Summit; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
|
October 29, 1989 |
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy |
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down |
Memoir/Autobiography; Civil Rights Movement
|
November 5, 1989 |
Vassily Aksyonov |
Say Cheese |
Say Cheese is one of the only novels ever featured on Booknotes.
|
November 12, 1989 |
Felix Rodriguez |
Shadow Warrior |
Memoir/Autobiography; The Central Intelligence Agency
|
November 19, 1989 |
Robin Wright |
In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade |
The Ayatollah Khomeini
|
November 26, 1989 |
Peter Hennessy |
Whitehall |
Her Majesty's Government; Whitehall
|
December 3, 1989 |
Clifford Stoll |
The Cuckoo's Egg |
Security cracking; Markus Hess
|
December 10, 1989 |
Arthur Grace |
Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race |
Photojournalism; 1988 United States presidential election
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December 17, 1989 |
James Reston, Jr. |
The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally |
John Connally
|
December 24, 1989 |
Richard Rhodes |
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer |
Agriculture in the United States; Family farms
|
December 31, 1989 |
William D. Lutz |
Doublespeak |
Doublespeak
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