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PublicAffairs Books founder Peter Osnos, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, and Democracy Alliance president Gara LaMarcha talked about the life, career, and philanthropy of businessma…

Vietnam after the American war ended in 1973 was discussed by Columbia University historian Lien-Hang Nguyen, former U.S. ambassador to Vietnam Raymond Burghardt, and former Washington Post …

Vietnam War veterans and former U.S. Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerrey were among those who looked back at the end of the conflict that divided the country. Former Vietnam War corresponden…

Longtime publishing executive Peter Osnos discussed political books and his role in some of the genre’s bestsellers in recent decades. About Books also reported on the latest publishing indu…

Vietnam War veterans and former U.S. Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob Kerrey were among those who looked back at the end of the conflict that divided the country. Former Vietnam War corresponden…

This discussion about the end of the Vietnam War a half-century ago featured former war correspondents Jim Sterba and Elizabeth Becker, and author David Maraniss. This George Washington Univ…

Journalist and publishing executive Peter Osnos, founder of PublicAffairs Books, reflected on publishing three presidents and reporting on the Vietnam War. This was a virtual event hosted by…

Peter Osnos, a longtime reporter, editor, and publisher and the author of An Especially Good View: Watching History Happen, talked about his family’s escape from Poland in 1939, working for …

Peter Osnos, long-time editor and founder of PublicAffairs Books,talked about working with Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump and other politicians.

A discussion on the 20th anniversary of the book publisher PublicAffairs, featuring its founder Peter Osnos as well as authors Vernon Jordan, Bradley Graham, and Maya Rao.

Natan Sharansky, a leading figure of the Soviet dissident movement of the 1970s and later an Israeli politician, spoke about his life and career with PublicAffairs Founder Peter Osnos. Mr. S…

Susan Swain and Mark Farkas talked about the book they co-edited The Supreme Court: A C-SPAN Book, Featuring the Justices in their Own Words (PublicAffairs, 2010) and the television document…

Peter Osnos answered the question “What are you reading this summer?” He mentioned K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America’s Most Unlikely Tourist by Pete…

The Discovery Channel hosted a panel discussion on their series titled Watergate. The panel consisted of several people who were directly involved in the scandal or the investigation into it…

Peter Osnos, founder and editor-at-large at Public Affairs Books was interviewed about what he was reading over the summer of 2008.

PublicAffairs Books founder and editor-and-chief Peter Osnos and publisher Susan Weinberg talked about the just published PublicAffairs book by Scott McClellan, What Happened: Inside the Bus…

A party was held to celebrate the posthumous publication of Meg Greenfield’s book Washington, published by PublicAffairs. The book is an inside view of the U.S. federal capital from a journa…

Panelists discuss the life and work of journalist I.F. Stone at an event celebrating the 100th anniversary of Stone’s birth. Topics included I.F. Stone’s influence on the field of journalism…

A party was held to celebrate the publication of the book Peter Jennings: A Reporter’s Life, published by PublicAffairs. The book was co-edited by Lynn Sherr, a colleague at ABC News, freela…

Authors discussed the role that social entrepreneurs play, or could play, in improving social and economic conditions in the U.S. and internationally. Peter Osnos moderated. Topics included …