First air date (Links to video) |
Interviewee(s) |
Interviewer(s) |
Book |
Topic of interview / Comments
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January 6, 2007 |
Anthony Weller |
Norman Hatch |
First into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War |
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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January 13, 2007 |
Gabor Boritt |
James Swanson |
The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows |
The Gettysburg Address
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January 20, 2007 |
Joel L. Fleishman |
Elizabeth Boris |
The Foundation: A Great American Secret; How Private Wealth is Changing the World |
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January 27, 2007 |
Frank Luntz |
John McCaslin |
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear |
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February 3, 2007 |
Eric Klinenberg |
Ben Scott |
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media |
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February 10, 2007 |
Brian Doherty |
Doug Bandow |
Radicals for Capitalism: The Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement |
Libertarianism in the United States
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February 17, 2007 |
John Naisbitt |
George Gilder |
Mind Set!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future |
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February 24, 2007 |
Edward Brooke |
Eleanor Holmes Norton |
Bridging the Divide: My Life |
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March 3, 2007 |
John Patrick Diggins |
George Will |
Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History |
Ronald Reagan
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March 10, 2007 |
Martha Raddatz |
Thomas Hammes |
The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family |
Siege of Sadr City
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March 17, 2007 |
John Newhouse |
Walter Boyne |
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business |
Competition between Airbus and Boeing
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March 24, 2007 |
Fred Charles Ikle |
John Lehman |
Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations |
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April 7, 2007 |
Bill Bradley |
James Leach |
The New American Story |
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April 14, 2007 |
Ali Allawi |
Roland Flamini |
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace |
History of Iraq (2003–2011)
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April 21, 2007 |
David Pietrusza |
Ann Compton |
1920: The Year of the Six Presidents |
1920 United States presidential election
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April 28, 2007 |
Michael Wallis |
Roy Blunt |
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride |
Billy the Kid
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May 5, 2007 |
Jabari Asim |
Bakari Kitwana |
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why |
The word "nigger"
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May 12, 2007 |
Robert McGovern |
Jack Kemp |
All American: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq |
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May 19, 2007 |
Rod Paige |
Kathy Kiely |
The War Against Hope: How Teachers' Unions Hurt Children, Hinder Teachers, and Endanger Public Education |
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May 26, 2007 |
Charles Rangel |
Jim Mills |
And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress |
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June 2, 2007 |
Michael Beschloss |
Alexis Simendinger |
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989 |
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June 9, 2007 |
Kenneth Ackerman |
Joan Biskupic |
Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties |
J. Edgar Hoover; 1919 United States anarchist bombings; The First Red Scare
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June 16, 2007 |
Ted Gup |
Michael Isikoff |
Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life |
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June 24, 2007 |
Amity Shlaes |
Nick Gillespie |
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression |
The Great Depression
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June 30, 2007 |
Seth Lerer |
Michael Dirda |
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language |
History of the English language
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July 7, 2007 |
Beverly Daniel Tatum |
Roger Wilkins |
Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation |
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July 15, 2007 |
Tim Weiner |
David Ignatius |
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA |
History of the Central Intelligence Agency
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July 21, 2007 |
Larry Berman |
Robert Kaiser |
Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, 'Time' Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent |
Pham Xuan An
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July 28, 2007 |
Sally Jenkins |
Suzan Harjo |
The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation |
Glenn Scobey Warner, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Carlisle Indians football, Jim Thorpe
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August 4, 2007 |
Connie Schultz |
Jim Tankersley |
...and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man |
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August 11, 2007 |
Alastair Campbell |
Gerald Seib |
The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries |
Premiership of Tony Blair
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August 18, 2007 |
Stanley Weintraub |
Max Boot |
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall - Three Generals Who Saved the American Century |
Dwight D. Eisenhower; Douglas MacArthur; George Marshall
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August 25, 2007 |
Scott Gant |
Peter Prichard |
We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age |
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September 1, 2007 |
Michael Duffy |
Bob Deans |
The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House |
Billy Graham
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September 8, 2007 |
John Nagl |
Sean Naylor |
The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual |
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September 15, 2007 |
Raymond Ibrahim |
Lawrence Wright |
The Al Qaeda Reader |
al Qaeda
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September 22, 2007 |
Nassim Taleb |
David Brooks |
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable |
Black swan theory
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September 30, 2007 |
Norman Podhoretz |
Charles Peña |
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism |
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October 6, 2007 |
Naomi Klein |
Franklin Foer |
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism |
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October 13, 2007 |
Lynne Cheney |
Nancy Gibbs |
Blue Skies, No Fences: A Memoir of Childhood and Family |
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October 20, 2007 |
Naomi Wolf |
Viet Dinh |
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot |
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October 27, 2007 |
Barbara Slavin |
Trita Parsi |
Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S., and the Twisted Path to Confrontation |
Iran–United States relations
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November 3, 2007 |
Jonathan Chait |
Grover Norquist |
The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics |
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November 10, 2007 |
Michael Gerson |
Richard Viguerie |
Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don't) |
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November 17, 2007 |
Garry Kasparov |
Leon Aron |
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom |
Chess
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November 25, 2007 |
Rick Atkinson |
Patrick O'Donnell |
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943 to 1944 |
Italian Campaign (World War II)
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December 1, 2007 |
David Frost |
Timothy Naftali |
Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews |
The Nixon Interviews
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December 8, 2007 |
Ronald Spector |
Steven Clemons |
In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia |
Occupation of Japan
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December 15, 2007 |
Patrick Buchanan |
Diana West |
Day of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed Are Tearing America Apart |
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December 22, 2007 |
Howard Kurtz |
James Warren |
Reality Show: Inside the Last Great Television News War |
ABC News, NBC News, CBS News
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December 29, 2007 |
Amy Chua |
Cullen Murphy |
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall |
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