First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter
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January 3, 1993 |
Michael Davis and Hunter Clark |
Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench |
Thurgood Marshall
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January 10, 1993 |
Jeffrey Birnbaum |
The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington |
Lobbying in the United States
|
January 17, 1993 |
P.F. Bentley |
Clinton: Portrait of Victory |
Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992
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January 24, 1993 |
Robert Gilbert |
The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House |
Calvin Coolidge; Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness; Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Health of Ronald Reagan
|
January 31, 1993 |
Benjamin Stein |
A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation |
Michael Milken
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February 7, 1993 |
Jack Nelson |
Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews |
The Ku Klux Klan
|
February 14, 1993 |
Nathan Miller |
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life |
Theodore Roosevelt
|
February 21, 1993 |
Richard Norton Smith |
Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation |
George Washington
|
February 28, 1993 |
Kay Mills |
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer |
Fannie Lou Hamer
|
March 6, 1993 |
Alex Dragnich |
Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia |
Serbs; Croats; Yugoslavia
|
March 13, 1993 |
Paul Kennedy |
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century |
21st century
|
March 21, 1993 |
Deborah Shapley |
Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara |
Robert McNamara
|
March 28, 1993 |
Michael Kelly |
Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War |
Gulf War; 20th century history of Iraq
|
April 4, 1993 |
Nadine Cohodas |
Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change |
Strom Thurmond
|
April 11, 1993 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933 |
Eleanor Roosevelt
|
April 18, 1993 |
Douglas Brinkley |
The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey |
History of the United States
|
April 25, 1993 |
Lisa Belkin |
First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital |
Hermann Hospital; Medical ethics
|
May 2, 1993 |
Marshall DeBruhl |
Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston |
Sam Houston
|
May 9, 1993 |
Charles Adams |
For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization |
Category:History of taxation
|
May 16, 1993 |
Anna Quindlen |
Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism
|
May 23, 1993 |
George Ball |
The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present |
Israel–United States relations
|
May 30, 1993 |
Douglas Davis |
The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message |
Television in the United States
|
June 6, 1993 |
J. Bowyer Bell |
The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992 |
The Troubles
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June 13, 1993 |
David Brock |
The Real Anita Hill |
Anita Hill
|
June 20, 1993 |
Howard Kurtz |
Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers |
Newspapers in the United States
|
June 27, 1993 |
George Shultz |
Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State |
Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of Ronald Reagan; United States Secretary of State
|
July 4, 1993 |
Joel Krieger |
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World |
International relations
|
July 11, 1993 |
David Halberstam |
The Fifties |
United States in the 1950s
|
July 18, 1993 |
Molly Moore |
A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines |
Memoir/Autobiography; United States Marine Corps; Gulf War; War journalism
|
July 25, 1993 |
David Remnick |
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire |
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
|
August 1, 1993 |
Alexander Brook and Warren H. Phillips |
The Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor |
Newspapers; Kennebunk, Maine
|
August 8, 1993 |
Tom Rosenstiel |
Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 |
1992 United States presidential election; ABC News
|
August 15, 1993 |
Lewis Lapham |
The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay |
Federal government of the United States
|
August 22, 1993 |
Harold Holzer |
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
The Lincoln-Douglas debates
|
August 29, 1993 |
Peter Macdonald |
Giap: The Victor in Vietnam |
General Võ Nguyên Giáp
|
September 5, 1993 |
Joseph Ellis |
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams |
John Adams
|
September 12, 1993 |
Ronald Kessler |
The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation
|
September 19, 1993 |
Madeline Cartwright |
For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public School |
School District of Philadelphia; Public education in the United States
|
September 26, 1993 |
Malcolm Browne |
Muddy Boots and Red Socks |
Memoir/Autobiography; War journalism; Vietnam War
|
October 3, 1993 |
Peter Skerry |
Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority |
Mexican Americans
|
October 10, 1993 |
Alan Brinkley |
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People |
The History of the United States
|
October 17, 1993 |
Christopher Hitchens |
For the Sake of Argument |
Christopher Hitchens's political views
|
October 24, 1993 |
William F. Buckley Jr. |
Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist |
Memoir/Autobiography; The National Review; Firing Line
|
October 31, 1993 |
Andrew Nagorski |
The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe |
Eastern Europe
|
November 7, 1993 |
Charles Mee |
Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World |
Pope Leo I and Attila the Hun; Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France; Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II; Congress of Vienna; Paris Peace Conference, 1919; Yalta Conference; G7
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November 14, 1993 |
Herbert Block |
Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life |
Memoir/Autobiography; Editorial cartoons
|
November 28, 1993 |
Betty Friedan |
The Fountain of Age |
Ageing
|
December 5, 1993 |
Margaret Thatcher |
The Downing Street Years |
Memoir/Autobiography; Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
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December 12, 1993 |
Richard Reeves |
President Kennedy: Profile of Power |
John F. Kennedy
|
December 19, 1993 |
John Podhoretz |
Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993 |
Memoir/Autobiography; Presidency of George H.W. Bush
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December 26, 1993 |
Willard Sterne Randall |
Thomas Jefferson: A Life |
Thomas Jefferson
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