First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter
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January 6, 2002 |
Bill Press |
Spin This! All The Ways We Don’t Tell the Truth |
Spin (public relations)
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January 13, 2002 |
Jeffrey Hart |
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education |
Western canon; Higher education in the United States
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January 20, 2002 |
John Laurence |
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story |
The Vietnam War
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January 27, 2002 |
Sandra Day O’Connor |
Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest |
Memoir/Autobiography; Duncan, Arizona; Ranching
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February 3, 2002 |
Ralph Nader |
Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President |
Memoir/Autobiography; United States presidential election, 2000; Ralph Nader presidential campaign, 2000
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February 10, 2002 |
Steve Neal |
Harry & Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World |
Harry Truman; Dwight Eisenhower
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February 17, 2002 |
Edward Steers Jr. |
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln |
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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February 24, 2002 |
R. Kent Newmyer |
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court |
John Marshall
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March 3, 2002 |
Randall Kennedy |
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word |
Use of the word "Nigger"
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March 10, 2002 |
Richard Lingeman |
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet |
Sinclair Lewis
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March 17, 2002 |
Michael Novak |
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding |
History of religion in the United States; Founding Fathers of the United States
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March 24, 2002 |
Jon Ronson |
Them: Adventures with Extremists |
Conspiracy Theories; Extremism
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March 31, 2002 |
Frank Wu |
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White |
Asian Americans
|
April 7, 2002 |
Leonard Downie Jr., Co-Author |
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril |
Journalism
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April 14, 2002 |
Ellen Joan Pollock |
The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History |
Martin Frankel
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April 21, 2002 |
Gordon Wood |
The American Revolution: A History |
The American Revolution
|
April 28, 2002 |
Robert Skidelsky |
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 |
John Maynard Keynes
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May 5, 2002 |
Sarah Brady |
A Good Fight |
James Brady; Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act; Gun politics in the United States
|
May 12, 2002 |
Jennifer Toth |
What Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of A Child Turning Violent |
Causes and correlates of crime; Foster care
|
May 19, 2002 |
James Srodes |
Franklin: The Essential Founding Father |
Benjamin Franklin
|
May 26, 2002 |
Richard John Neuhaus |
As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning |
Death
|
June 2, 2002 |
Richard Posner |
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline |
Public intellectuals
|
June 9, 2002 |
Jennet Conant |
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II |
Alfred Lee Loomis
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June 16, 2002 |
Samantha Power |
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
Genocide; United States non-interventionism
|
June 23, 2002 |
Diana Preston |
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy |
The RMS Lusitania
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June 30, 2002 |
John Leonard |
Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures |
Essays; Intellectuals; Exile; Expatriates
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July 7, 2002 |
Sandra Mackey |
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein |
Iraq; Saddam Hussein
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July 14, 2002 |
Nguyen Cao Ky |
Buddha’s Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam |
Vietnam
|
July 21, 2002 |
Daniel Stashower |
The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television |
Philo T. Farnsworth; David Sarnoff; History of Television
|
July 28, 2002 |
Beppe Severgnini |
Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S. |
Culture of the United States
|
August 4, 2002 |
Glenn Loury |
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality |
Race in the United States
|
August 11, 2002 |
Ann Coulter |
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right |
Media bias in the United States; American Left; Conservatism in the United States
|
August 18, 2002 |
Simon Worrall |
The Poet and the Murderer |
Mark Hofmann
|
August 25, 2002 |
Michael Oren |
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East |
The Six-Day War
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September 1, 2002 |
Winston Groom |
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918—Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front |
Ypres Salient; First Battle of Ypres; Second Battle of Ypres; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of the Lys (1918); Fifth Battle of Ypres
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September 8, 2002 |
Dennis Hutchinson |
The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR's Washington |
John Frush Knox
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September 15, 2002 |
Arnold Ludwig |
King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership |
Leadership; Politics; Heads of state; Heads of government
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September 22, 2002 |
Eliot Cohen |
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime |
Civilian control of the military; Abraham Lincoln; Georges Clemenceau; Winston Churchill; David Ben-Gurion
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September 29, 2002 |
Pete Davies |
American Road: The Story of An Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age |
Transcontinental Motor Convoy
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October 6, 2002 |
Zig Ziglar |
Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar |
Memoir/Autobiography; Sales; Motivational speaking
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October 13, 2002 |
Linda Greenlaw |
The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island |
Lobstering; Maine
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October 20, 2002 |
Michael Mandelbaum |
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century |
Globalization; Peace; Democracy; Free market economics
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October 27, 2002 |
Charles Slack |
Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century |
Charles Goodyear; Thomas Hancock; Vulcanization
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November 3, 2002 |
Caryle Murphy |
Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East—The Egyptian Experience |
Islam in Egypt
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November 10, 2002 |
Frank Williams |
Judging Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln
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November 17, 2002 |
Rick Atkinson |
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 |
North African Campaign; Operation Torch
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November 24, 2002 |
Peter Krass |
Carnegie |
Andrew Carnegie
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December 1, 2002 |
Bruce Feiler |
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths |
Abraham; Abrahamic religions
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December 8, 2002 |
Michelle Malkin |
Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores |
Immigration to the United States; Illegal immigration to the United States
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December 15, 2002 |
John Taliaferro |
Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore |
Gutzon Borglum; Mount Rushmore; Construction of Mount Rushmore
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December 22, 2002 |
Diana Walker |
Public & Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency |
Photojournalism
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December 29, 2002 |
Margaret MacMillan |
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World |
Paris Peace Conference, 1919
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