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A memorial service was held for Carla Cohen, founder and co-owner of Washington D.C.,'s Politics and Prose Bookstore, who died on October 11, 2010, at age 74. Ms. Cohen started the bookstore…

Simon Winchester talked about his book Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories. In his history of the Atlantic Ocean the author…

Keith Jeffery presented a history of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. The author was given unprecedented access to the MI6 archives to assist in his examination of the organizat…

Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone magazine, examines religious fundamentalism in American politics. Following up on his last book on the subject, The Family, M…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jonathan Weiner talked about a group of scientists and entrepreneurs who are working to achieve human immortality. He spoke at Politics and Prose Bookstore in W…

Charles Peters, founder and former editor of The Washington Monthly, recounts the tenure of the 36th U.S. president, Lyndon B. Johnson. Mr. Peters, who worked in the Kennedy and Johnson admi…

Dave Kindred, author and long-time Washington correspondent, profiles the current state of the newspaper industry and specifically details the day-to-day operations of The Washington Post. M…

Akbar Ahmed and his team of American assistants visited Muslim communities in 75 towns and cities in the U.S. to find out the views of people there on various topics including religion, terr…

The former staff writer for the New Yorker argues that it’s time to hunker down, make do with significantly less and concentrate on essentials if humans are to survive on a rapidly changing …

David Remnick talked about his book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama (Knopf; April 6, 2010). In his book, which was previously presented in a distilled format as a magazine prof…

Nicholas Schou talks about The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a drug-smuggling hippie group that produced and distributed “Orange Sunshine” LSD in California and around the country in the late…

A doctor at the nation’s oldest public hospital, Bellvue, presents vignettes of her care of immigrant patients and the trials foreign nationals have in the U.S. health care system. The book …