Original air date
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Interviewee(s) |
Comments
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| January 7, 2018 |
Hendrik Meijer |
Featured discussion of Meijer's book Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, about Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
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| January 14, 2018 |
A. J. Baime |
Featured discussion with Baime about his book The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, about the first four months of the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
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| January 21, 2018 |
Noah Feldman |
Featured discussion of Feldman's book The Three Lives of James Madison.
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| January 28, 2018 |
Caitriona Perry |
Featured discussion of Perry's book In America.
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| February 4, 2018 |
Bill James |
Featured discussion of James's book The Man from the Train.
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| February 11, 2018 |
Doug Mills |
Featured discussion of Mills's work as a photojournalist, and his coverage of the presidencies and / or campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.
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| February 18, 2018 |
Michael Fabey |
Featured discussion of Fabey's book Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific.
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| February 25, 2018 |
Kate Bowler |
Featured discussion of Bowler's memoir Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.
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| March 4, 2018 |
Joshua Zeitz |
Featured discussion of Zeitz's book Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House.
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| March 11, 2018 |
Francisco Cantú |
Featured discussion of Cantú's book The Line Becomes a River.
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| March 18, 2018 |
Thomas Cronin |
Featured discussion of Cronin's book Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America.
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| March 25, 2018 |
Amy Chua |
Featured discussion of Chua's book Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.
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| April 1, 2018 |
U.S. Senate Youth Program |
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| April 8, 2018 |
Michio Kaku |
Featured discussion of Kaku's book The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth.
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| April 15, 2018 |
Niall Ferguson |
Featured discussion of Ferguson's book The Square and the Tower.
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| April 22, 2018 |
Etan Thomas |
Featured discussion of Thomas's book We Matter: Athletes and Activism.
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| April 29, 2018 |
Lillian Cunningham |
Featured discussion of Cunningham's "Presidential" and "Constitutional" podcasts.
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| May 6, 2018 |
Robert Kurson |
Featured discussion of Kurson's book Rocket Men, about the Apollo 8 mission.
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| May 13, 2018 |
Yunte Huang |
Featured discussion of Huang's book Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History, about conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker.
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| May 20, 2018 |
William Hitchcock |
Featured discussion of Hitchcock's book The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.
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| May 27, 2018 |
John Lewis Gaddis |
Featured discussion of Gaddis's book On Grand Strategy.
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| June 3, 2018 |
Patricia O'Toole |
Featured discussion of O'Toole's book The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made.
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| June 10, 2018 |
Ross Douthat |
Featured discussion of Douthat's book To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism.
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| June 17, 2018 |
Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk |
Featured discussion of Tropea and Cyzyk's documentary Hit & Stay: A History of Faith and Resistance, about the Catonsville 9.
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| June 24, 2018 |
Amy Wax |
Featured discussion of free expression on college campuses.
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| July 1, 2018 |
Mona Charen |
Featured discussion of Charen's book Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense.
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| July 8, 2018 |
Tom Dunkel |
Featured discussion of Dunkel's Washington Post article about the sons of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
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| July 15, 2018 |
Gregory Watson |
Featured discussion of Watson's role in the ratification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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| July 22, 2018 |
Grace Kennan Warnecke |
Featured discussion of Warnecke's book Daughter of the Cold War.
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| July 29, 2018 |
David O. Stewart |
Featured discussion of Stewart's book Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy.
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| August 5, 2018 |
Richard Baker, Donald Ritchie, Ray Smock |
Featured discussion of aspects of the history of the United States Congress.
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| August 12, 2018 |
Ginger Thompson |
Featured discussion of Thompson's reporting for ProPublica on various issues related to U.S.-Mexico relations.
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| August 18, 2018 |
John Ferling |
Featured discussion of Ferling's book Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe.
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| August 25, 2018 |
Jeffrey Rosen |
Featured discussion of Rosen's biography of William Howard Taft.
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| September 2, 2018 |
Charles W. Calhoun |
Featured discussion of Calhoun's biography of Benjamin Harrison.
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| September 9, 2018 |
Zachary Wood |
Featured discussion of Wood's book Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America.
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| September 16, 2018 |
Richard Norton Smith |
Featured discussion of Smith's biography of Herbert Hoover, An Uncommon Man.
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| September 23, 2018 |
Major Garrett |
Featured discussion of Garrett's book Mr. Trump's Wild Ride.
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| September 30, 2018 |
Jeffrey Engel |
Featured discussion of Engel's book When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War.
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| October 7, 2018 |
Joanne Freeman |
Featured discussion of Freeman's book The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.
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| October 14, 2018 |
Tucker Carlson |
Featured discussion of Carlson's book Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution.
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| October 21, 2018 |
Joel Richard Paul |
Featured discussion of Paul's book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times.
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| October 28, 2018 |
James Mann |
Featured discussion of Mann's biography of George W. Bush.
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| November 4, 2018 |
David Levering Lewis |
Featured discussion of Lewis's book The Improbable Wendell Willkie.
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| November 11, 2018 |
Michael Gerhardt |
Featured discussion of Gerhardt's book The Forgotten Presidents, in particular, aspects of the Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
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| November 18, 2018 |
Jackie Speier |
Featured discussion of Speier's book Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back, about her experiences accompanying Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate the Peoples Temple settlement at Jonestown.
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| November 25, 2018 |
Ted Widmer |
Featured discussion of Widmer's biography of Martin Van Buren.
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| December 2, 2018 |
Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Russell Shorto |
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| December 9, 2018 |
Peter Osnos |
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| December 16, 2018 |
Sarah Churchwell |
Featured discussion of Churchwell's book Behold, America.
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| December 23, 2018 |
Holman Jenkins |
Featured discussion of Jenkins's experiences as a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
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| December 30, 2018 |
Mark Farkas |
Featured discussion of the C-SPAN program The Senate: Conflict and Compromise.
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