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Professor David Garrow talked about his book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, in which he looks at President Obama’s life prior to his years as president. The is the second of a…

Saudi Arabian women’s rights activist Manal Al-Sharif talks about her book, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening, about her decision to challenge the Saudi government’s ban on women…

Brooke Gladstone, co-host and managing editor of WNYC’s “On the Media,” talked about her book, The Trouble with Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in our Time.

David McCullough talked about his book, The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For, a selection of his speeches going back to 1989.

Columnist and political commentator Pat Buchanan, who served as a speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon, talked about his book, Nixon’s White House Wars.

Robert Caro talked about talks about, “On Power,” his audio project on the evolution and exercise of political power in America. He also talked about the progress he is making on the next…

Professor David Garrow talked about his book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, in which he looks at President Obama’s life prior to his years as president.

Paul Sparrow, director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York, talked about the papers and artifacts housed at the location and provided a rare look…

Professor Thomas Hazlett talked about his book, The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone, about the history and…

Former counterterrorism and intelligence officer Malcolm Nance talked about his career and his most recent books, The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and Wikileaks Tried to…

Mr. Brzezinski recently wrote Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower, published by Basic Books. He talked about his book, his time in politics, and his…

Author and journalist T.R. Reid talked about his book A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System, in which he compares tax systems around the world.…

Mr. Ailes was interviewed at FOX Studios in New York City. Among the topics he addressed were the editorial style of FOX News, the state of the marketplace for television news and public…

Professor Mark Cheathem talked about his book, Andrew Jackson, Southerner. Topics included the 1828 presidential campaign between Presidents Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, and President…

Chris Cavas talked about the U.S. Navy’s s “Fat Leonard” scandal involving Malaysian defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and more than two dozen Navy officials, including several…

Professor Brad Snyder talked about his book, The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism, about a group of intellectuals who met regularly in…

High school students from the U.S. Senate Youth Program talked about their participation in a week-long government and leadership education program. One hundred four students were selected…

John Farrell talked about his book Richard Nixon: The Life, in which he chronicles Mr. Nixon’s political career from his early days in Congress to his tenure and downfall as president.…

Heather McGhee talked about her August 2016 appearance on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” program in which a call from a white man in North Carolina who said he was prejudiced started a…

Michael Doran talked about his book, Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East, about the 1956 Suez Crisis and its aftermath.