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Author and journalist Patricia Miller discussed her book, Bringing Down the Colonel, about a late 19th-century sex scandal that culminated in a lawsuit against a sitting Kentucky member of…

Francisco Cantú talked about his book, The Line Becomes a River. His memoir details his experiences as a border patrol agent and the things he learned about the U.S. immigration system.…

Author and columnist James Grant talked about the state of the U.S. economy and the threat posed by ever-expanding national debt.

Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Keach Hagey talked about her book, The King of Content, about media mogul Sumner Redstone.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talked about her career and her book, Know Your Power.

C-SPAN producer Mark Farkas talked about C-SPAN’s new original production, “The Senate: Conflict and Compromise.”

Zachary Wood, assistant editor at The Atlantic, talked about his book, Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America.

Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA) talked about her memoir Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back. In 1978, Representative Speier was a congressional staffer working for…

Wall Street Journalist columnist Holman Jenkins talked about his work and politics during the Trump administration.

Author and journalist Jane Leavy talked about her book, The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created, about the life and times of the legendary baseball player.

University of London literature Professor Sarah Churchwell talked about her book, Behold America, which looks at the history of the phrases “America First” and “The American Dream.”

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.

Historians Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Russell Shorto talked about what it means to be an American.

Southern Methodist University’s Jeffrey Engel discussed his book, When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War.

Ted Widmer, former adviser to President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, talked about his biography of President Martin Van Buren.

Ted Widmer talked about the book he edited, Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy. The book contains audio CDs with 150 minutes of recorded conversations from the…

James Billington talked about his experiences during his 20 years as the head of the Library of Congress. Other topics included the library’s future, the explosion of digital material, and the role of…

University of North Carolina constitutional law professor Michael Gerhardt, author of The Forgotten Presidents, talked about the presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis talked about his biography of businessman and 1940 presidential candidate Wendell Willkie.

James Mann talked about his biography of former President George W. Bush.