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Miami University Professor Steven Conn talked about his book, The Lies of the Land, in which he argued that the reality of rural America today is vastly different from the way it is often po…

Times of London U.S. editor David Charter, author of Royal Audience, talked about Queen Elizabeth II’s special relationship with the United States and U.S. presidents over her 70-year reign …

Dr. Uché Blackstock, author of Legacy, talked about being a Black physician in the United States and the inequities facing Black doctors and patients today. Dr. Blackstock, her mother, and t…

Columnist Rob Henderson, author of “Troubled,” talked about growing up as a troubled child in the U.S. foster care system, the hurdles he overcame to become successful, and what he learned a…

Patti Davis talked about her book, Dear Mom and Dad," a memoir written as a letter to her late parents, former President Ronald and Nancy Reagan. She talked about her complicated relationshi…

Virginia House of Delegates Speaker Don Scott (D), the state’s first Black speaker, talked about the hardships he has overcome, including spending almost eight years in prison.

Tech entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun talked about his work in Silicon Valley and the future of artificial intelligence. Thrun, formerly a vice president at Google, is the founder of Google X, W…

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic and columnist Carlos Lozada, author of The Washington Book, talked about the insights he gleaned from reading the memoirs, political biographies, and offic…

Hollywood biographer Scott Eyman discussed his book, Charlie Chaplin vs. America," about the silent film star’s fallout with the U.S. government during the Red Scare.

New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers talked about her book, American Woman, on the modern-day evolution of first lady of the United States, going back to Hillary Clinton and…

Charles Scribner III, author of Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing, talked about his family’s history at the famous publishing house that was founded by his great-great-grandfather in…

Betty Koed, a retired U.S. Senate historian, shared stories from her book Scenes, a collection of Senate history brief chronicles that she presented to senators during their Tuesday caucus l…

Historian Cassandra Good, author of First Family, talked about the lives and complicated legacies of George Washington’s step-grandchildren.

Craig Fehrman talked about his book, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, in which he analyzed American presidents through the lens of the works they…

Kate Bowler, a Duke Divinity School assistant professor and prosperity gospel scholar, talked about her memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason, on being diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer …

Journalist Susannah Cahalan talked about her book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, about a 1973 experiment, led by Stanford psychologis…

Daryl Davis talked about his efforts over the past 30 years to befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan to try to understand their hatred and to convince them that they are wrong. He also spoke …

Erik Larson is the author of a new historical narrative detailing with the life of William E. Dodd when he became the first U.S. ambassador to Adolf Hitler’s Germany in Berlin during 1933. T…

Georgetown University law professor Cliff Sloan, author of The Court at War, talked about the civil rights and civil liberties cases taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court during World War II an…

Historian Richard Striner, author of Ike in Love and War, talked about the personal life and career of Dwight D. Eisenhower, covering everything from his upbringing and military service to h…