First air date (Links to video) |
Interviewee(s) |
Interviewer(s) |
Book |
Topic of interview / Comments
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January 2, 2005 |
Newt Gingrich |
Norman Ornstein |
Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America |
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January 9, 2005 |
Howard Friel |
Ken Adelman |
The Record of the Paper: How the 'New York Times' Misreports U.S. Foreign Policy |
The New York Times
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January 16, 2005 |
Helen Prejean |
Victoria Toensing |
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions |
Wrongful execution
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January 23, 2005 |
Craig Shirley |
Joseph Trippi |
Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All |
Republican Party presidential primaries, 1976, Ronald Reagan
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January 30, 2005 |
Melissa Boyle Mahle |
Dana Priest |
Denial and Deception: An Insider's View of the CIA From Iran Contra to 9/11 |
The Central Intelligence Agency
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February 6, 2005 |
Essie Mae Washington-Williams |
Harold Ford, Jr. |
Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond |
Strom Thurmond
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February 13, 2005 |
Natan Sharansky |
Tom Gjelten |
The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror |
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February 20, 2005 |
Doug Wead |
Harold Gullan |
The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of our Nation's Leaders |
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February 27, 2005 |
William Hague |
Martin Turner |
William Pitt the Younger |
William Pitt the Younger
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March 6, 2005 |
Donald Ritchie |
John Dickerson |
Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps |
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March 13, 2005 |
Tom Fenton |
Roger Mudd |
Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the Danger to Us All |
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March 20, 2005 |
Ari Fleischer |
Karen Hosler |
Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House |
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March 27, 2005 |
Jim Wallis |
Randy Tate |
God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It |
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April 3, 2005 |
Roy Moore |
Bill Press |
So Help Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for Religious Freedom |
Glassroth v. Moore
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April 10, 2005 |
Ernestine Bradley |
Hadassah Lieberman |
The Way Home: A German Childhood, an American Life |
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April 17, 2005 |
Bob Dole |
Rick Atkinson |
One Soldier's Story: A Memoir |
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April 24, 2005 |
Jorge Ramos |
Linda Chavez |
Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History |
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May 1, 2005 |
Linda Greenhouse |
Tim O'Brien |
Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey |
Harry Blackmun
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May 8, 2005 |
Byron York |
Clarence Page |
The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President--and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time |
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May 15, 2005 |
Michael Eric Dyson |
Debra Dickerson |
Is Bill Cosby Right: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? |
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May 22, 2005 |
Ronald Radosh |
Jack Valenti |
Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the Left |
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May 29, 2005 |
Jack Coughlin |
Tony Capaccio |
Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-Ranked Marine Sniper |
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June 5, 2005 |
Zell Miller |
John Anderson |
A Deficit of Decency |
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June 12, 2005 |
Patricia O'Toole |
Tom Daschle |
When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House |
Theodore Roosevelt
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June 19, 2005 |
Neil Baldwin |
Joseph Bottum |
The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War |
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June 26, 2005 |
David Rothkopf |
James Bamford |
Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power |
United States National Security Council
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July 3, 2005 |
Robert W. Merry |
Harlan Ullman |
Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition |
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July 10, 2005 |
Bob Woodward |
James Mann |
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat |
Mark Felt, Deep Throat
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July 17, 2005 |
Victor Navasky |
David Frum |
A Matter of Opinion |
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July 24, 2005 |
Asra Nomani |
Akbar Ahmed |
Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam |
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July 31, 2005 |
Rick Santorum |
Kirk Victor |
It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good |
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August 7, 2005 |
Kenneth Walsh |
Susan Eisenhower |
From Mount Vernon to Crawford: A History of the Presidents and Their Retreats |
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August 14, 2005 |
Harvey Kaye |
Michael Novak |
Thomas Paine and the Promise of America |
Thomas Paine
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August 21, 2005 |
Ralph Peters |
Anatol Lieven |
New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy |
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August 28, 2005 |
Sheldon Hackney |
Janet Langhart Cohen |
Magnolias Without Moonlight: The American South from Regional Confederacy to National Integration |
History of the Southern United States, Politics of the Southern United States
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September 3, 2005 |
Charles Peters |
Thomas Fleming |
Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing 'We Want Willkie!' Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World |
1940 Republican National Convention
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September 10, 2005 |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
Stephen Moore |
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream |
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September 17, 2005 |
Steve Forbes |
Alice Rivlin |
Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS |
Flat tax
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September 24, 2005 |
Tony Blankley |
Barbara Slavin |
The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations? |
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October 1, 2005 |
Andrea Mitchell |
Robert Lichter |
Talking Back: ...to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels |
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October 8, 2005 |
Chris Whittle |
Jay Mathews |
Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education |
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October 15, 2005 |
Bing West |
Mark Mazzetti |
No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah |
Second Battle of Fallujah
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October 22, 2005 |
Mary Frances Berry |
Juan Williams |
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations |
Callie House
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October 29, 2005 |
Thomas P.M. Barnett |
Tom Feeney |
Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating |
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November 6, 2005 |
Jimmy Carter |
Brian Williams |
Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis |
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November 12, 2005 |
Bill Richardson |
Chuck Todd |
Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life |
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November 19, 2005 |
Nathaniel Fick |
Andrew Carroll |
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer |
United States Marine Corps
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November 26, 2005 |
Bruce Chadwick |
Edward Lengel |
The First American Army: The Untold Story of George Washington and the Men Behind America's First Fight for Freedom |
George Washington
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December 3, 2005 |
Mary Mapes |
Brent Bozell |
Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power |
Killian documents controversy
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December 10, 2005 |
Haynes Johnson |
Joseph diGenova |
The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism |
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December 17th, 2005 |
John Linder |
David Wessel |
The FairTax Book |
FairTax
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December 24, 2005 |
George Weigel |
Jon Meacham |
God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church |
Pope Benedict XVI
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December 31, 2005 |
Janis Karpinski |
Douglas Macgregor |
One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story |
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
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