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Cathy Lanier, the chief of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department, talked about the department’s growth in the twenty-three years she has been a police officer. She talked a…

Dr. Hassan Tetteh talked about his book, Gifts of the Heart, a fictional story of a military physician in Afghanistan. He suggested that portions of his life story are mirrored through the c…

Hugh Hewitt talked about his book, The Happiest Life: Seven Gifts, Seven Givers, and the Secret to Genuine Success. He describes the message of the book as “generosity,” which he says unders…

In this edition of BOOKNOTES, Susan Butler, Author,'EAST TO THE DAWN: The Life of Amelia Earhart'. discusses Amelia Earhart ,her life and her marriage to publisher George Putnam who …

Richard Baker talked about the historical narrative he co-wrote with Neil MacNeil, The American Senate: An Insider’s History. The book details the emergence of the U.S. Senate as what Mr. Ba…

This week on Q & A, our guest is author and co-founder of CODEPINK, Medea Benjamin. She discusses her new book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, and explains why she believes th…

David Stockman talked about his new book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, in which he suggested that Wall Street and the Federal Reserve had joined forces to …

Patty Stonesifer talked about her role as the leader of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization Martha’s Table. She described Martha’s Table a community-based charity that provides…

Margaret MacMillan talked about her historical narrative, The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, in which she describes in detail the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, …

Neil Postman, author of “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology", took part in "Booknotes” where he talked about his book.

In the thirty-eighth in a series on American presidents, scholars and historians discussed the life and career of Jimmy Carter. Among the issues they discussed were his childhood in Plains, …

Mr. Persico talked about his book, Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, published by Random House. He talked about an overlooked aspect of FDR’s wartime leadership: his in…

Mr. Jennings discussed his new book, The Century, published by Doubleday and co-authored by Todd Brewster. The book uses color photography and the stories of ordinary people to describe the …

Dr. Toby Cosgrove talked about his 25-year career at the Cleveland Clinic. He discussed recent remarks by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), among others, regarding the clinic’s upcoming jobs and budg…

Charles Bolden talked about his experiences as an astronaut and his current duties as NASA administrator. He discussed some of the more than 100 missions he flew over North Vietnam, Laos, an…

Robin Nagle talked about her book, Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City, in which she suggests that garbage workers were the most imp…

Josh Sapan talked about his book, The Big Picture: America in Panorama, a compilation of nearly 100 duotone photographs and his commentary describing the people and stories behind the images…

Clint Hill discussed Mrs. Kennedy and Me, his historical narrative of his assignment to guard the wife of former President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline, from shortly after the November 1960 e…

Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, two former Secret Service agents, spoke about the day that President Kennedy was assassinated. They also talked about the assassination’s conspiracy theories an…

Doris Kearns Goodwin talked about her book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, on the technological and economic changes brought on …