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Ellen Jovin offered tips on English grammar and shared her experience traveling across the U.S. to answer questions about proper grammar usage. R J Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut, hoste…

Senator Chris Dodd talked about his book, Letters from Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice, published by Crown. In the book he chronicles the Nuremberg trials of Nazi lea…

Hal Vaughan talked about his book, FDR’s 12 Apostles: The Spies Who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa, published by The Lyons Press. He told the story of 12 men appointed by Pre…

Tony Williams talked about his book The Pox and the Covenant: Mather, Franklin, and the Epidemic That Changed America’s Destiny, in which he recounts an outbreak of smallpox in Boston in 172…

Stephen Budiansky talked about his book, Blackett’s War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare, in which he recounts the use of scientific and mathe…

Edward Ball talked about his book, The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures, in which he recounts the relationship between the inventor of stop-motio…

Bob Drury recounted the final thirty-six hours of the American withdrawal from Vietnam on April 29, 1975. Mr. Drury profiled eleven Marine Corps Security Guards who oversaw the final evacuee…

Jack Hitt recounts America’s many amateur inventors and tinkerers, from Benjamin Franklin’s experiments with electricity to Mark Zuckerberg’s social media website, and profiles the current c…

Daniel Wolff talked about his book How Lincoln Learned to Read: Twelve Great Americans and the Education That Made Them (Bloomsbury USA; March 17, 2009). In his book he explores how twelve i…

Professor Powers talked about his book Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI, published by Free Press. He writes about the Bureau from its beginnings to the present. Mr. …

Wally Lamb talked about the book he edited I’ll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison, published by Harper. The book is a collection of autobiographical writings produc…

Author Tony Perrottet talked about his book, The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games, published by Random House. He spoke about how the Olympics of today are drastically diff…

Greg Behrman talked about his book, The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe, published by Free Press. He described the condition of European …

Frank Rich talked about his book, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: Bush’s America from “Mission Accomplished” to “Heckuva Job, Brownie", published by Penguin Press. He accused the Bush administ…

Edward Renehan talked about The Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons, published by Basic Books. In the book, he argues that Jay Gould, …

R.A. Scotti talked about her book, Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, published by Little Brown and Company. She described the hurricane that killed 682 people and severely injured 1,7…

Roya Hakakian talked about her memoir Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, published by Crown. The book deals with her life as a young woman in Iran during …

Author Brett Fromson talked about his book, Hitting the Jackpot: The Inside Story of the Richest Indian Tribe in History, published by Atlantic Monthly Press. The book tells the story of the…

Sherwin Nuland discussed his memoir about his father, Lost in America: A Journey with My Father, published by Alfred A. Knopf. During his presentation, Dr. Nuland talked about his previous w…

Richard Butler, former Australian Ambassador to the United States, talked about his book Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense. Mr. Butler spoke about arms contr…