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August 30, 2014 Last Aired October 12, 2014
War! What Is It Good For?

Ian Morris talked about his book, War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and Progress of Civilizations from Primates to Robots. He spoke in the History and Biography Pavilion of the 14th…
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August 30, 2014 Last Aired September 7, 2014
The End of Night

Paul Bogard talked about his book, The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light. He spoke in the Science Pavilion of the 2014 National Book Festival, which…
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September 21, 2013 Last Aired October 6, 2013
The Patriarch

David Nasaw talked about his book, The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, in which he recounts the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, patriarch of the…
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September 8, 2001 Last Aired September 17, 2001
W.E.B. DuBois

Professor David Levering Lewis read excerpts from his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography W.E.B. DuBois and talked about DuBois' life and career. Professor Lewis is the Martin Luther King…
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September 23, 2000 Last Aired November 26, 2000
The Washington Post Book World

At the second annual Fall for the Book festival editors from the Washington Post Book World talked about their work as book reviewers and their approach to critiquing books. After their…
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