First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter
|
January 7, 1990 |
Sig Mickelson |
From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
|
January 14, 1990 |
John Barry |
The Ambition and the Power |
Jim Wright; Newt Gingrich
|
January 21, 1990 |
Fitzhugh Green |
George Bush: An Intimate Portrait |
George H. W. Bush
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January 28, 1990 |
Charles Fecher |
The Diary of H.L. Mencken |
H.L. Mencken
|
February 4, 1990 |
Jim Mann |
Beijing Jeep: American Business in China |
Jeep Cherokee (XJ); Automobile industry in China; U.S.-China economic relations
|
February 11, 1990 |
David Burnham |
A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics and the IRS |
the Internal Revenue Service
|
February 18, 1990 |
Peggy Noonan |
What I Saw at the Revolution |
Ronald Reagan; Reagan Administration
|
February 25, 1990 |
Michael Fumento |
The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS |
AIDS
|
February 27, 1990 |
Hedley Donovan |
Right Places, Right Times |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine
|
March 4, 1990 |
Richard Barnet |
The Rockets' Red Glare: When America Goes to War—The Presidents and the People |
Military history of the United States; Home front; United States home front during World War II
|
March 11, 1990 |
Frederick Kempe |
Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affairs with Noriega |
Manuel Noriega; United States invasion of Panama
|
March 18, 1990 |
David Halevy |
Inside the PLO |
The Palestine Liberation Organization
|
March 25, 1990 |
James Abourezk |
Advise and Dissent: Memoirs of South Dakota and the U.S. Senate |
Memoir/Autobiography; The United States Senate; South Dakota
|
April 1, 1990 |
Fred Graham |
Happy Talk: Confessions of a TV Newsman |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News
|
April 8, 1990 |
Leonard Sussman |
Power, The Press and The Technology of Freedom |
History of the World Wide Web; Integrated Services Digital Network
|
April 15, 1990 |
Helmut Schmidt |
Men and Powers: A Political Retrospective |
Memoir/Autobiography; West Germany
|
April 22, 1990 |
Michael Barone |
Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan |
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)
|
April 29, 1990 |
Robert Caro |
Means of Ascent |
Lyndon Johnson
|
May 6, 1990 |
Morley Safer |
Flashbacks on Returning to Vietnam |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Aftermath of the Vietnam War
|
May 13, 1990 |
Brian Duffy and Steven Emerson |
The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation |
Pan Am Flight 103
|
May 20, 1990 |
Allister Sparks |
The Mind of South Africa |
South Africa
|
May 27, 1990 |
Bette Bao Lord |
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic |
Memoir/Autobiography; Tiananmen Square protests of 1989; Television in the People's Republic of China
|
June 3, 1990 |
Dusko Doder |
Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin |
Mikhail Gorbachev
|
June 10, 1990 |
Thomas Sowell |
Preferential Policies: An International Perspective |
Affirmative action; Reverse discrimination
|
June 17, 1990 |
Judith Miller |
One, By One, By One: Facing the Holocaust |
Aftermath of the Holocaust; Holocaust historiography; Holocaust commemoration
|
June 24, 1990 |
Kevin Phillips |
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath |
Reaganomics
|
July 1, 1990 |
Chris Ogden |
Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power |
Margaret Thatcher
|
July 8, 1990 |
Denton Watson |
Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell Jr.'s Struggle for the Passage of Civil Rights Laws |
Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
|
July 15, 1990 |
Caspar Weinberger |
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon |
Memoir/Autobiography; Reagan Administration; U.S. Department of Defense
|
July 22, 1990 |
Teresa Odendahl |
Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite |
Philanthropy in the United States
|
July 29, 1990 |
Michael Shapiro |
In the Shadow of the Sun: A Korean Year of Love and Sorrow |
Memoir/Autobiography; Economy of South Korea
|
August 5, 1990 |
Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman |
Every Spy a Prince |
Israeli Intelligence Community
|
August 12, 1990 |
Roger Kimball |
Tenured Radicals |
Modern liberalism in the United States; Higher education in the United States; Tenure
|
August 19, 1990 |
Tad Szulc |
Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WWII |
Aftermath of World War II; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s
|
August 26, 1990 |
Christopher Wren |
The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China |
Communism; The Soviet Union; China
|
September 2, 1990 |
Lee Edwards |
Missionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter Judd |
Walter Judd
|
September 9, 1990 |
Robert Dole |
Historical Almanac of the United States Senate |
History of the United States Senate
|
September 16, 1990 |
M.A. Farber |
Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax |
Tawana Brawley rape allegations
|
September 23, 1990 |
Jannette Dates |
Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media |
Representation of African-Americans in media
|
October 14, 1990 |
Harold Stassen |
Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace |
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
October 21, 1990 |
Tim Weiner |
Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget |
Military budget of the United States
|
October 28, 1990 |
Pat Choate |
Agents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic System |
Lobbying in the United States; Japan – United States relations
|
November 4, 1990 |
Paul Taylor |
See How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of Mediaocracy |
United States presidential election, 1988
|
November 11, 1990 |
Blaine Harden |
Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent |
Africa
|
November 18, 1990 |
Jean Edward Smith |
Lucius D. Clay: An American Life |
Lucius D. Clay
|
November 25, 1990 |
Martin Mayer |
The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry |
Savings and loan crisis
|
December 2, 1990 |
Cpt. Carol Barkalow |
In the Men's House |
Memoir/Autobiography; Women in the military; United States Military Academy
|
December 9, 1990 |
Sally Bedell Smith |
In All His Glory |
William S. Paley
|
December 16, 1990 |
Shen Tong |
Almost a Revolution |
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
|
December 23, 1990 |
John Wallach and Janet Wallach |
Arafat: In the Eyes of the Beholder |
Yasser Arafat
|
December 30, 1990 |
Garry Wills |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Religion and politics in the United States
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