| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| April 2, 1989 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
The Grand Failure: The Birth & Death of Communism in the 20th Century |
| April 9, 1989 |
Judy Shelton |
The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets |
| April 16, 1989 |
Bruce Oudes |
From: The President: Richard Nixon's Secret Files |
| April 23, 1989 |
Susan Moeller |
Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat |
| April 30, 1989 |
Henry Brandon |
Special Relationships: A Foreign Correspondent's Memoirs |
| May 7, 1989 |
Col. David Hackworth |
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior |
| May 14, 1989 |
James Fallows |
More Like Us: Making America Great Again |
| May 21, 1989 |
Gregory Fossedal |
The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution |
| May 28, 1989 |
Stanley Karnow |
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines |
| June 4, 1989 |
James MacGregor Burns |
The Crosswinds of Freedom |
| June 11, 1989 |
Robert Christopher |
Crashing the Gates: The De-WASPing of America's Power Elite |
| June 18, 1989 |
Sen. Robert Byrd |
The Senate: 1789-1989 |
| June 25, 1989 |
Elizabeth Colton |
The Jackson Phenomenon: The Man, The Power, The Message |
| July 2, 1989 |
Nathaniel Branden |
Judgement Day: My Years with Ayn Rand |
| July 9, 1989 |
Roger Kennedy |
Orders From France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World (1780-1820) |
| July 14, 1989 |
Simon Schama |
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution |
| July 16, 1989 |
George Wilson |
Mud Soldiers: Life Inside the New American Army |
| July 23, 1989 |
Jeanne Simon |
Codename: Scarlett: Life on the Campaign Trail by the Wife of a Presidential Candidate |
| July 30, 1989 |
Michael Kaufman |
Mad Dreams, Saving Graces Poland: A Nation in Conspiracy |
| August 6, 1989 |
Porter McKeever |
Adlai Stevenson: His Life and Legacy |
| August 13, 1989 |
Bob Schieffer and Gary Paul Gates |
The Acting President |
| August 20, 1989 |
Bruce Murray |
Journey Into Space: The First Thirty Years of Space Exploration |
| August 27, 1989 |
Jack Germond and Jules Witcover |
Whose Broad Stripes & Bright Stars: The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988 |
| September 3, 1989 |
Walter Laquer |
The Long Road to Freedom: Russia & Glasnost |
| September 10, 1989 |
Thomas Friedman |
From Beirut to Jerusalem |
| September 17, 1989 |
Gen. Ariel Sharon |
Warrior: An Autobiography |
| September 24, 1989 |
George Gilder |
Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology |
| October 1, 1989 |
Mort Rosenblum |
Back Home: A Foreign Correspondent Rediscovers America |
| October 8, 1989 |
Barbara Ehrenreich |
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class |
| October 15, 1989 |
Harrison Salisbury |
Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June |
| October 22, 1989 |
Kenneth Adelman |
The Great Universal Embrace, Arms Summitry -- A Skeptic's Account |
| October 29, 1989 |
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy |
And the Walls Came Tumbling Down |
| November 5, 1989 |
Vassily Aksyonov |
Say Cheese |
| November 12, 1989 |
Felix Rodriguez |
Shadow Warrior |
| November 19, 1989 |
Robin Wright |
In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade |
| November 26, 1989 |
Peter Hennessy |
Whitehall |
| December 3, 1989 |
Clifford Stoll |
The Cuckoo's Egg |
| December 10, 1989 |
Arthur Grace |
Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race |
| December 17, 1989 |
James Reston, Jr. |
The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally |
| December 24, 1989 |
Richard Rhodes |
Farm: A Year in the Life of an American Farmer |
| December 31, 1989 |
William Lutz |
Doublespeak |
| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| January 7, 1990 |
Sig Mickelson |
From Whistle Stop to Sound Bite |
| January 14, 1990 |
John Barry |
The Ambition & the Power |
| January 21, 1990 |
Fitzhugh Green |
George Bush:An Intimate Portrait |
| January 28, 1990 |
Charles Fecher |
The Diary of H.L. Mencken |
| February 4, 1990 |
Jim Mann |
Beijing Jeep:American Business in China |
| February 11, 1990 |
David Burnham |
A Law Unto Itself:Power, Politics and the IRS |
| February 18, 1990 |
Peggy Noonan |
What I Saw at the Revolution |
| February 25, 1990 |
Michael Fumento |
The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS |
| February 27, 1990 |
Hedley Donovan |
Right Places, Right time |
| March 4, 1990 |
Richard Barnet |
The Rockets' Red Glare:When America Goes To War -- The Presidents and the People |
| March 11, 1990 |
Frederick Kempe |
Divorcing the Dictator:America's Bungled Affairs with Noriega |
| March 18, 1990 |
David Halevy |
Inside the PLO |
| March 25, 1990 |
James Abourezk |
Advise & Dissent:Memoirs of South Dakota & the US Senate |
| April 1, 1990 |
Fred Graham |
Happy Talk: Confessions of a TV Newsman |
| April 8, 1990 |
Leonard Sussman |
Power, The Press & The Technology of Freedom |
| April 15, 1990 |
Helmut Schmidt |
Men and Powers: A political Retrospective |
| April 22, 1990 |
Michael Barone |
Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan |
| April 29, 1990 |
Robert Caro |
Means of Ascent |
| May 6, 1990 |
Morley Safer |
Flashbacks On Returning to Vietnam |
| May 13, 1990 |
Brian Duffy and Steven Emerson |
The Fall of Pan Am 103: Inside the Lockerbie Investigation |
| May 20, 1990 |
Allister Sparks |
The Mind of South Africa |
| May 27, 1990 |
Bette Bao Lord |
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic |
| June 3, 1990 |
Dusko Doder |
Gorbachev: Heretic in the Kremlin |
| June 10, 1990 |
Thomas Sowell |
Preferential Policies: An International Perspective |
| June 17, 1990 |
Judith Miller |
One, By One, By One: Facing the Holocaust |
| June 24, 1990 |
Kevin Phillips |
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath |
| July 1, 1990 |
Chris Ogden |
Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power |
| July 8, 1990 |
Denton Watson |
Lion in the Lobby: Clarence Mitchell Jr.'s |
| July 15, 1990 |
Caspar Weinberger |
Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon |
| July 22, 1990 |
Teresa Odendahl |
Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self-Interest Among the Philanthropic Elite |
| July 29, 1990 |
Michael Shapiro |
In the Shadow of the Sun: A Korean Year of Love & Sorrow |
| August 5, 1990 |
Dan Raviv and Yossi Mellman |
Every Spy a Prince |
| August 12, 1990 |
Roger Kimball |
Tenured Radicals |
| August 19, 1990 |
Tad Szulc |
Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WW 2 |
| August 26, 1990 |
Christopher Wren |
The End of the Line: The Failure of Communism in the Soviet Union and China |
| September 2, 1990 |
Lee Edwards |
Missionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter Judd |
| September 9, 1990 |
Robert Dole |
Historical Almanac of the United States Senate |
| September 16, 1990 |
M. L. Farber |
Outrage: The Story Behind the Tawana Brawley Hoax |
| September 23, 1990 |
Janette Dates |
Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media |
| October 14, 1990 |
Harold Stassen |
Eisenhower: Turning the World Toward Peace |
| October 21, 1990 |
Tim Weiner |
Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget |
| October 28, 1990 |
Pat Choate |
Agents of Influence: How Japan's Lobbyists in the United States Manipulate America's Political and Economic System |
| November 4, 1990 |
Paul Taylor |
See How They Run: Electing a President in an Age of Mediaocracy |
| November 11, 1990 |
Blaine Harden |
Africa: Dispatches From a Fragile Continent |
| November 18, 1990 |
Jean Edward Smith |
Lucius D. Clay:An American Life |
| November 25, 1990 |
Martin Mayer |
The Greatest Ever Bank Robbery:The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry |
| December 2, 1990 |
Cpt. Carol Barkalow |
In the Men's House |
| December 9, 1990 |
Sally Bedell Smith |
In All His Glory |
| December 16, 1990 |
Shen Tong |
Almost a Revolution |
| December 23, 1990 |
John Wallach and Janet Wallach |
Arafat:In the Eyes of the Beholder |
| December 30, 1990 |
Garry Wills |
Under God:Religion and American Politics |
| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| January 6, 1991 |
Ben Wattenberg |
The First Universal Nation |
| January 13, 1991 |
Daniel Roos |
The Machine That Changed the World |
| January 27, 1991 |
Daniel Yergin |
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power |
| February 3, 1991 |
Carl Rowan |
Breaking Barriers |
| February 10, 1991 |
Father Theodore Hesburgh |
God, Country, Notre Dame |
| February 17, 1991 |
Ronald Brownstein |
The Power and the Glitter:The Hollywood-Washington Connection |
| February 24, 1991 |
Robert Kuttner |
The End of Laissez-Faire |
| March 3, 1991 |
Haynes Johnson |
Sleepwalking Through History:America in the Reagan Years |
| March 10, 1991 |
Georgie Anne Geyer |
Guerilla Prince |
| March 17, 1991 |
Leonard Goldenson |
Beating the Odds |
| March 24, 1991 |
Richard Brookhiser |
The Way of the WASP: How it Made America and How It Can Save It ...So to Speak |
| March 31, 1991 |
Dayton Duncan |
Grass Roots: One Year in the Life of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary |
| April 7, 1991 |
Tom Wicker |
One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream |
| April 14, 1991 |
William Strauss and Neil Howe |
Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069 |
| April 21, 1991 |
Robert Shogun |
The Riddle of Power |
| April 28, 1991 |
Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman |
In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action |
| May 5, 1991 |
Nick Lemann |
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How it Changed America |
| May 12 and May 19, 1991 |
Lou Cannon |
President Reagan:A Role of a Lifetime |
| May 24, 1991 |
Lewis Puller, Jr. |
Fortunate Son:The Autobiography of Lewis Puller, Jr. |
| May 26, 1991 |
Robert Reich |
The Work of Nations |
| June 2, 1991 |
Robert Kaiser |
Why Gorbachev Happened: His Triumphs & His Failure |
| June 9, 1991 |
George Friedman and Merideth LeBard |
The Coming War with Japan |
| June 16, 1991 |
DixyLee Ray |
Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the |
| June 23, 1991 |
Bob Woodward |
TheCommanders |
| June 30, 1991 |
Roger Gittines |
Consequences: John G. Tower, A Personal and Political Memoir |
| July 7, 1991 |
Donald Ritchie |
Press Gallery |
| July 14, 1991 |
Michael Bechloss |
The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963 |
| July 21, 1991 |
Alan Ehrenhalt |
The UnitedState of Ambition: Politicians, Power and the Pursuit of Office |
| July 28, 1991 |
Clark Clifford |
Counsel to the President:A Memoir |
| August 4, 1991 |
Elaine Sciolino |
The Outlaw State:Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis |
| August 11, 1991 |
Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin |
Silent Coup:The Removal of a President |
| August 18, 1991 |
Liz Trotta |
Fighting for Air:In the Trenches with Television News |
| August 25, 1991 |
E.J. Dionne, Jr |
Why Americans Hate Politics |
| September 1, 1991 |
Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn |
Dangerous Liaisons |
| September 8, 1991 |
Liva Baker |
The Justice from Beacon Hill |
| September 15, 1991 |
Reuven Frank |
Out of Thin Air:The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News |
| September 22, 1991 |
Robert Dallek |
Lone Star Rising:Lyndon Johnson and his Times 1908-1960 |
| September 29, 1991 |
Stephen Carter |
Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby |
| October 6, 1991 |
Ken Auletta |
Three Blind Mice:How the TV Networks Lost Their Way |
| October 20, 1991 |
Anthony Lewis |
Make No Law:The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment |
| October 27, 1991 |
Don Oberdorfer |
The Turn:From the Cold War to a New Era, The United States and the Soviet Union 1983-1990 |
| November 3, 1991 |
Larry Sabato |
Feeding Frenzy:How Attack Journalism has Transformed American Politics |
| November 10, 1991 |
Tina Rosenberg |
Children of Cain:Violence and the Violent in Latin America |
| November 17, 1991 |
Suzanne Garment |
Scandal:The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics |
| November 24, 1991 |
James Stewart |
Den of Thieves |
| December 1, 1991 |
Gary Sick |
October Surprise:America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan |
| December 8, 1991 |
James Reston |
Deadline:A Memoir |
| December 15, 1991 |
Thomas Byrne Edsall and Mary Edsall |
Chain Reaction:The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics |
| December 22, 1991 |
Martin Gilbert |
Churchill:A Life |
| December 29, 1991 |
Jimmy Breslin |
Damon Runyan:A Life |
| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| January 5, 1992 |
Charles Hamilton |
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| January 12, 1992 |
August Heckscher |
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography |
| January 26, 1992 |
Frederick Downs |
No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam |
| February 2, 1992 |
Robert Cwiklik |
House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington |
| February 9, 1992 |
Francis Fukuyama |
The End of History and the Last Man |
| February 16, 1992 |
Al Gore |
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit |
| February 23 and March 1, 1992 |
Richard Nixon |
Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World |
| March 8, 1992 |
Robert Massie |
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War |
| March 22, 1992 |
Linda Chavez |
Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation |
| March 29, 1992 |
Nan Robertson |
The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times |
| April 12, 1992 |
Orlando Patterson |
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture |
| April 19, 1992 |
Paul Hollander |
Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 |
| April 26, 1992 |
Tinsley Yarbrough |
John Marshall: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court |
| May 3, 1992 |
Earl Black and Merle Black |
The Vital South: How Presidents are Elected |
| May 5, 1992 |
Robert Remini |
Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union |
| May 10, 1992 |
David Moore |
The Superpollsters: How they Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America |
| May 17, 1992 |
Robert Bartley |
The Seven Fat Years and How to do it Again |
| May 31, 1992 |
Lester Thurow |
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America |
| June 7, 1992 |
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. |
The Conservative Crack-Up |
| June 14, 1992 |
William Lee Miller |
The Business of May Next: James Madison & the Founding |
| June 21, 1992 |
John Jackley |
Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress |
| June 28, 1992 |
David Savage |
Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court |
| July 5, 1992 |
William Rehnquist |
Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson |
| July 12, 1992 |
Jeffrey Bell |
Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality |
| July 19, 1992 |
David McCullough |
Truman |
| July 26, 1992 |
Richard Ben Cramer |
What it Takes: The Way to the White House |
| August 2, 1992 |
Gilbert Fite |
Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia |
| August 9, 1992 |
Robert Donovan and Ray Scherer |
Unsilent Revolution: Television News & American Life |
| August 16, 1992 |
Martin Anderson |
Impostors in the Temple |
| August 23, 1992 |
Mickey Kaus |
The End of Equality |
| August 30, 1992 |
Neil Postman |
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology |
| September 6, 1992 |
Terry Eastland |
Energy in the Executive: The Case for a Strong Presidency |
| September 13, 1992 |
James Billington |
Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope |
| September 20, 1992 |
Sen. Paul Simon |
Advice and Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles |
| September 27, 1992 |
Walter Isaacson |
Kissinger: A Biography |
| October 18, 1992 |
George Will |
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy |
| October 25, 1992 |
Susan Faludi |
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
| November 8, 1992 |
Barbara Hinkley and Paul Brace |
Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents |
| November 15, 1992 |
Derrick Bell |
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism |
| November 22, 1992 |
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf |
It Doesn't Take a Hero |
| November 29, 1992 |
Charles Sykes |
A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character |
| December 6, 1992 |
Daniel Boorstin |
The Creators |
| December 13, 1992 |
Brian Kelly |
Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't Stop |
| December 20, 1992 |
Eric Alterman |
Sound & Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics |
| December 27, 1992 |
Michael Medved |
Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values |
| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| January 3, 1993 |
Michael Davis and Hunter Clark |
Thurgood Marshall:Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench |
| January 10, 1993 |
Jeffrey Birnbaum |
The Lobbyists:How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington |
| January 17, 1993 |
P.F. Bentley |
Clinton:Portrait of Victory |
| January 24, 1993 |
Robert Gilbert |
The Mortal Presidency:Illness and Anguish in the White House |
| January 31, 1993 |
Benjamin Stein |
A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation |
| February 7, 1993 |
Jack Nelson |
Terror in the Night:The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews |
| February 14, 1993 |
Nathan Miller |
Theodore Roosevelt:A Life |
| February 21, 1993 |
Richard Norton Smith |
Patriarch:George Washington and the New American Nation |
| February 28, 1993 |
Kay Mills |
This Little Light of Mine:The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer |
| March 6, 1993 |
Alex Dragnich |
Serbs & Croats:The Struggle in Yugoslavia |
| March 13, 1993 |
Paul Kennedy |
Preparing for the Twenty-First Century |
| March 21, 1993 |
Deborah Shapley |
Promise and Power:The Life and Times of Robert McNamara |
| March 28, 1993 |
Michael Kelly |
Martyrs' Day:Chronicle of a Small War |
| April 4, 1993 |
Nadine Cohodas |
Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change |
| April 11, 1993 |
Blanche Wiesen Cook |
Eleanor Roosevelt:Volume 1, 1884-1933 |
| April 18, 1993 |
Douglas Brinkley |
The Majic Bus:An American Odyssey |
| April 25, 1993 |
Lisa Belkin |
First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital |
| May 2, 1993 |
Marshall DeBruhl |
Sword of San Jacinto:A Life of Sam Houston |
| May 9, 1993 |
Charles Adams |
For Good & Evil:The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization |
| May 16, 1993 |
Anna Quindlen |
Thinking Out Loud:On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private |
| May 23, 1993 |
George Ball |
The Passionate Attachment:America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present |
| May 30, 1993 |
Douglas Davis |
The Five Myths of Television Power:Or, Why the Medium is Not the Message |
| June 6, 1993 |
J. Bowyer Bell |
The Irish Troubles:A Generation of Violence 1967-1992 |
| June 13, 1993 |
David Brock |
The Real Anita Hill |
| June 20, 1993 |
Howard Kurtz |
Media Circus:The Trouble with America's Newspapers |
| June 27, 1993 |
George Shultz |
Turmoil and Triumph:My Years as Secretary of State |
| July 4, 1993 |
Joel Krieger |
The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World |
| July 11, 1993 |
David Halberstam |
The Fifties |
| July 18, 1993 |
Molly Moore |
A Woman at War:Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines |
| July 25, 1993 |
David Remnick |
Lenin's Tomb:The Last Days of the Soviet Empire |
| August 1, 1993 |
Alexander Brook and Warren Phillips |
The Hard Way:The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor |
| August 8, 1993 |
Tom Rosenstiel |
Strange Bedfellows:How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992 |
| August 15, 1993 |
Lewis Lapham |
The Wish for Kings:Democracy at Bay |
| August 22, 1993 |
Harold Holzer |
The Lincoln Douglas Debates |
| August 29, 1993 |
Peter Macdonald |
Giap:The Victor in Vietnam |
| September 5, 1993 |
Joseph Ellis |
Passionate Sage:The Character and Legacy of John Adams |
| September 12, 1993 |
Ronald Kessler |
The FBI:Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency |
| September 19, 1993 |
Madeline Cartwright |
For the Children:Lessons from a Visionary Principal;How We Can Save Our Public School |
| September 26, 1993 |
Malcolm Browne |
Muddy Boots and Red Socks |
| October 3, 1993 |
Peter Skerry |
Mexican-Americans:The Ambivalent Minority |
| October 10, 1993 |
Alan Brinkley |
The Unfinished Nation:A Concise History of the American People |
| October 17, 1993 |
Christopher Hitchens |
For the Sake of Argument |
| October 24, 1993 |
William F. Buckley Jr. |
Happy Days Were Here Again:Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist |
| October 31, 1993 |
Andrew Nagorski |
The Birth of Freedom:Shaping Lives & Societies in the New Eastern Europe |
| November 7, 1993 |
Charles Mee |
Playing God:Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World |
| November 14, 1993 |
Herbert Block |
Herblock:A Cartoonist's Life |
| November 28, 1993 |
Betty Friedan |
The Fountain of Age |
| December 5, 1993 |
Margaret Thatcher |
The Downing Street Years |
| December 12, 1993 |
Richard Reeves |
President Kennedy:Profile of Power |
| December 19, 1993 |
John Podhoretz |
Hell of a Ride:Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993 |
| December 26, 1993 |
Willard Sterne Randall |
Thomas Jefferson:A Life
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| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| January 2, 1994 |
David Levering Lewis |
W.E.B. DuBois:The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
| January 9, 1994 |
William Bennett |
The Book of Virtues |
| January 16, 1994 |
Carolyn Barta |
Perot and His People:Disrupting the Balance of Political Power |
| January 23, 1994 |
Gary Hymel and Tip O'Neill |
All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game |
| January 30, 1994 |
William Chafe |
Never Stop Running:Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism |
| February 6, 1994 |
Stanley Weintraub |
Disraeli:A Biography |
| February 13, 1994 |
Bill Emmott |
Japanophobia:The Myth of the invincible Japanese |
| February 20, 1994 |
Peter Arnett |
Live from the Battlefield:From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War Zones |
| February 27, 1994 |
Stephen Lesher |
George Wallace:American Populist |
| March 6, 1994 |
Nathan McCall |
Makes Me Wanna Holler:A Young Black Man in America |
| March 13, 1994 |
Norman Ornstein |
Debt & Taxes:How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It |
| March 20, 1994 |
Clare Brandt |
The Man in the Mirror:A Life of Benedict Arnold |
| March 27, 1994 |
John Corry |
My Times:Adventures in the News Trade |
| April 3, 1994 |
Andrew Young |
A Way Out of No Way:The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young |
| April 10, 1994 |
Fifth Anniversary Special |
N/A |
| April 17, 1994 |
James Cannon |
Time and Change:Gerald Ford's Appointment with History |
| May 1, 1994 |
Howell Raines |
Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis |
| May 8, 1994 |
John Keegan |
A History of Warfare |
| May 15, 1994 |
Forrest McDonald |
The American Presidency:An Intellectual History |
| May 22, 1994 |
James McPherson |
What They Fought For, 1861-1865 |
| May 29, 1994 |
Pete Hamil |
A Drinking Life:A Memoir |
| June 5, 1994 |
Stephen Ambrose |
D-Day:June 6, 1944:The Climactic Battle of World War II |
| June 12, 1994 |
Mark Neely |
The Last Best Hope of Earth:Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America |
| June 19, 1994 |
Sam Roberts |
Who We Are:A Portrait of America |
| June 26, 1994 |
Lani Guinier |
The Tyranny of the Majority:Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy |
| July 3, 1994 |
Murray Kempton |
Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events |
| July 10, 1994 |
Cal Thomas |
The Things That Matter Most |
| July 17, 1994 |
David Hackett Fischer |
Paul Revere's Ride |
| July 24, 1994 |
Dan Quayle |
Standing Firm |
| July 31, 1994 |
Colman McCarthy |
All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence |
| August 7, 1994 |
Peter Collier |
The Roosevelts:An American Saga |
| August 14, 1994 |
Merrill Peterson |
Lincoln in American Memory |
| August 21, 1994 |
Hugh Pearson |
The Shadow of the Panther:Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America |
| August 28, 1994 |
John Leo |
Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police |
| September 4, 1994 |
Paul Weaver |
News and the Culture of Lying |
| September 11, 1994 |
Shelby Foote |
Stars in Their Courses:The Gettysburg Campaign |
| September 18, 1994 |
Irving Bartlett |
John C. Calhoun:A Biography |
| September 25, 1994 |
Ben Yagoda |
Will Rogers:A Biography |
| October 2, 1994 |
Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood |
Dream City:Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. |
| October 9, 1994 |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Colored People |
| October 16, 1994 |
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn |
China Wakes:The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power |
| October 23, 1994 |
Liz Carpenter |
Unplanned Parenthood |
| October 30, 1994 |
David Frum |
Dead Right |
| November 6, 1994 |
Bill Thomas |
Club Fed:Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol Hill |
| November 13, 1994 |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
A Journey Through Economic Time |
| November 20, 1994 |
Milton Friedman |
Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom |
| November 27, 1994 |
Melba Pattillo Beals |
Warriors Don't Cry:A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High |
| December 4, 1994 |
Charles Murray |
The Bell Curve:Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life |
| December 11, 1994 |
Elizabeth Drew |
On The Edge:The Clinton Presidency |
| December 18, 1994 |
Peter Robinson |
Snapshots From Hell:The Making of an MBA |
| December 25, 1994 |
Glenn Frankel |
Beyond the Promised Land:Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel
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| First broadcast |
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Book |
| January 1, 1995 |
Doris Kearns Goodwin |
No Ordinary Time:Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt:The Home Front in World War II |
| January 8, 1995 |
Robert Wright |
The Moral Animal:Why We Are the Way We Are:The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology |
| January 15, 1995 |
Anthony Cave Brown |
Treason in the Blood:H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century |
| January 22, 1995 |
Marvin Olasky |
The Tragedy of American Compassion |
| January 29, 1995 |
Steven Waldman |
The Bill:How the Adventures of Clinton's National Service Bill Reveal What is |
| February 5, 1995 |
M. Stanton Evans |
The Theme is Freedom:Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition |
| February 12, 1995 |
Philip Howard |
The Death of Common Sense:How Law is Suffocating America |
| February 19, 1995 |
Jimmy Carter |
Always a Reckoning and Other Poems |
| February 26, 1995 |
Alan Ryan |
Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America |
| March 5, 1995 |
Lynn Sherr |
Failure is Impossible:Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words |
| March 12, 1995 |
Donald Kagan |
On the Origins of War |
| March 19, 1995 |
Neil Baldwin |
Edison:Inventing the Century |
| March 26, 1995 |
James Loewen |
Lies My Teacher Told Me:Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong |
| April 2, 1995 |
Gertrude Himmelfarb |
The De-Moralization of Society:From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values |
| April 9, 1995 |
Stanley Greenberg |
Middle Class Dreams:The Politics and Power of the New American Majority |
| April 16, 1995 |
Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler |
Creating a New Civilization:The Politics of the Third Wave |
| April 23, 1995 |
Robert McNamara |
In Retrospect:The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam |
| April 30, 1995 |
Michael Klare |
Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws:America's Search for a New Foreign Policy |
| May 7, 1995 |
David Maraniss |
First in His Class:A Biography of Bill Clinton |
| May 14, 1995 |
Tim Penny and Major Garret |
Common Cents |
| May 21, 1995 |
Linn Washington |
Black Judges on Justice |
| May 28, 1995 |
John Niven |
Salmon P. Chase:A Biography |
| June 4, 1995 |
Hanan Ashrawi |
This Side of Peace |
| June 11, 1995 |
Peter Brimelow |
Alien Nation:Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster |
| June 18, 1995 |
Yuri Shvets |
Washington Station:My Life as a KGB Spy in America |
| June 25, 1995 |
Norman Mailer |
Oswald's Tale:An American Mystery |
| July 2, 1995 |
Ari Hoogenboom |
Rutherford B. Hayes:Warrior & President |
| July 9, 1995 |
DeWayne Wickham |
Woodholme:A Black Man's Story of Growing Up Alone |
| July 16, 1995 |
Armstrong Williams |
Beyond Blame:How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier |
| July 23, 1995 |
Newt Gingrich |
To Renew America |
| July 30, 1995 |
John Hockenberry |
Moving Violations:A Memoir:War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence |
| August 6, 1995 |
Marc Fisher |
After the Wall:Germany, The Germans, and the Burdens of History |
| August 13, 1995 |
Robert D. Richardson, Jr. |
Emerson:The Mind on Fire |
| August 20, 1995 |
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach |
Hoover's FBI:The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant |
| August 27, 1995 |
Robert Timberg |
The Nightingale's Song |
| September 3, 1995 |
Robert Leckie |
Okinawa:The Last Battle of World War II |
| September 10, 1995 |
Emory Thomas |
Robert E. Lee:A Biography |
| September 17, 1995 |
Elsa Walsh |
Divided Lives:The Public and Private Struggles of Three Accomplished Women |
| September 24, 1995 |
Irving Kristol |
Neoconservatism:The Autobiography of an Idea |
| October 1, 1995 |
Andrew Sullivan |
Virtually Normal:An Argument About Homosexuality |
| October 8, 1995 |
Susan Eisenhower |
Breaking Free:A Memoir of Love |
| October 15, 1995 |
Nicholas Basbanes |
A Gentle Madness:Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books |
| October 22, 1995 |
David Fromkin |
In The Time of Americans:The Generation that Changed America's Role in the World |
| October 29, 1995 |
Ben Bradlee |
A Good Life:Newspapering and Other Adventures |
| November 5, 1995 |
Marlin Fitzwater |
Call the Briefing!Bush & Reagan, Sam & Helen:A Decade with Presidents and the Press |
| November 12, 1995 |
Pierre Salinger |
P.S., A Memoir |
| November 19, 1995 |
bell hooks |
Killing Rage:Ending Racism |
| November 26, 1995 |
Sanford Ungar |
Fresh Blood:The New American Immigrants |
| December 3, 1995 |
James Baker |
The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992 |
| December 10, 1995 |
David Brinkley |
A Memoir |
| December 17, 1995 |
Evan Thomas |
The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA |
| December 24, 1995 |
David Herbert Donald |
Lincoln |
| December 31, 1995 |
Charles Kuralt |
Charles Kuralt's America |
| First broadcast |
Author |
Book |
| January 7, 1996 |
Colin Powell |
My American Journey |
| January 14, 1996 |
William Prochnau |
Once Upon a Distant War |
| January 21, 1996 |
Michael Kinsley |
Big Babies |
| January 28, 1996 |
Carlo D'Este |
Patton:A Genius for War |
| February 4, 1996 |
Dennis Prager |
Think a Second Time |
| February 11, 1996 |
Lance Banning |
The Sacred Fire of Liberty:James Madison & the Founding of the Federal Republic |
| February 18, 1996 |
Dan Balz and Ronald Brownstein |
Storming the Gates:Protest Politics and the Republican Revival |
| February 25, 1996 |
H.W. Brands |
The Reckless Decade:America in the 1890s |
| March 3, 1996 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton |
It Takes a Village:And Other Lessons Our Children Teach Us |
| March 10, 1996 |
Johanna Neuman |
Lights, Camera, War:Is Media Technology Driving International Politics? |
| March 17, 1996 |
Clarence Page |
Showing My Color:Impolite Essays on Race & Identity |
| March 24, 1996 |
Robert Merry |
Taking on the World:Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century |
| March 31, 1996 |
Fox Butterfield |
All God's Children:The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence |
| April 7, 1996 |
Jean Baker |
The Stevensons:A Biography of an American Family |
| April 14, 1996 |
Wayne Fields |
Union of Words:A History of Presidential Eloquence |
| April 21, 1996 |
Robert Kaplan |
The Ends of the Earth:A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century |
| April 28, 1996 |
David Reynolds |
Walt Whitman's America:A Cultural Biography |
| May 5, 1996 |
David Broder and Haynes Johnson |
The System:The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point |
| May 12, 1996 |
Stanley Crouch |
The All-American Skin Game, or the Decoy of Race:The Long and the Short of it, 1990-1994 |
| May 19, 1996 |
Michael Sandel |
Democracy's Discontent:America in Search of a Public Philosophy |
| May 26, 1996 |
Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof |
In the Name of Sorrow and Hope |
| June 2, 1996 |
James Thomas Flexner |
Maverick's Progress:An Autobiography |
| June 9, 1996 |
Christopher Matthews |
Kennedy and Nixon:The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America |
| June 16, 1996 |
Albert Murray |
Blue Devils of Nada:A Contemporary American Approach to Aesthetic Statement |
| June 23, 1996 |
Seymour Martin Lipset |
American Exceptionalism:A Double-Edged Sword |
| June 30, 1996 |
Glenn Simpson and Larry Sabato |
Dirty Little Secrets:The Persistance of Corruption in American Politics |
| July 7, 1996 |
Paul Greenberg |
No Surprises: Two Decades of Clinton Watching |
| July 14, 1996 |
Ted Sorensen |
Why I Am a Democrat |
| July 21, 1996 |
Eleanor Randolph |
Waking the Tempests:Ordinary Life in the New Russia |
| July 28, 1996 |
James Lardner |
Crusader: The Hell-Raising Police Career of Detective David Durk |
| August 4, 1996 |
Denis Brian |
Einstein:A Life |
| August 25, 1996 |
Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis |
War Without Bloodshed:The Art of Politics |
| September 1, 1996 |
Drew Gilpin Faust |
Mothers of Invention:Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War |
| September 8, 1996 |
Donald Warren |
Radio Priest:Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio |
| September 15, 1996 |
Lloyd Kramer |
Lafayette in Two Worlds:Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions |
| September 22, 1996 |
Michael Elliott |
The Day Before Yesterday:Reconsidering America's Past, Rediscovering the Present |
| September 29, 1996 |
Monica Crowley |
Nixon off the Record:His Commentary on People and Politics |
| October 13, 1996 |
Louise Barnett |
Touched by Fire:The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer |
| October 20, 1996 |
David Friedman |
Hidden Order:The Economics of Everyday Life |
| October 27, 1996 |
Paul Hendrickson |
The Living and the Dead:Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War |
| November 3, 1996 |
Andrew Ferguson |
Fools' Names, Fools' Faces |
| November 10, 1996 |
Leon Dash |
Rosa Lee:A Mother and Her Family in Urban America |
| November 17, 1996 |
Conor Cruise O'Brien |
The Long Affair:Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 |
| November 24, 1996 |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
Memoirs |
| December 4, 1996 |
Robert Bork |
Slouching Towards Gomorrah:Modern Liberalism and American Decline |
| December 8, 1996 |
Nell Irvin Painter |
Sojourner Truth:A Life, A Symbol |
| December 15, 1996 |
President Bill Clinton |
Between Hope & History:Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century |
| December 22, 1996 |
David Denby |
Great Books:My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World |
| December 29, 1996 |
Stanley Wolpert |
Nehru:A Tryst with Destiny
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