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John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge spoke about their book The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America, published by Penguin Press. The book takes a look at the conservative movemen…

Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio discussed his book Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators, published by Walker and Company. The book profiles seven infamous leaders whose care…

Mr. Gorenberg talked about his book The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977, published by Times Books. He talked about the history of the Israeli settlemen…

Professor Nakash talked about his book Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World, published by Princeton University Press. He examined the meaning of the rise of the Shi’a in th…

Clyde Prestowitz talked about his book Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, published by Basic Books. He argued that America was headed toward an …

Mr. Fritz spoke about his book Lost on Earth: Nomads of the New World published by Little Brown & Company. The book surveys refugees from around the world, from areas as diverse as the forme…

Anne Marie Oliver and Paul Steinberg talked about their book The Road to Martyrs' Square: A Journey Into the World of the Suicide Bomber, published by Oxford University Press. They discusse…

Ms. Pope talked about her book Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey, published by Overlook Press, which described the growth of the modern Turkish state in the aftermath of World War …

Mr. Carr talked about his book, The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again, published by Random House. He talked about…

Lou Dobbs talked about his book Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed is Shipping American Jobs Overseas, published by Warner Books. In it, Mr. Dobbs writes that there is a large imbalance…

Geneive Abdo and Jonathan Lyons discussed their book Answering Only to God: Faith and Freedom in Twenty-First-Century Iran, published by Henry Holt and Company. The authors worked in Iran f…

Co-Authors, Mohammed El-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar spoke about their book, "Al-Jazeera". In the book the authors chronicle the rise of the Qatar-based Arab news network to a major player in th…

Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist, spoke about his book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, published by Yale University Press. The book details how and why …

The co-authors talked about their book, While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today, published by St. Martin’s Press. The father-and-son team argues…

Timothy Garton Ash talked about his book History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s, published by Random House. Mr. Ash was a reporter in Central Europ…

David Fromkin talked about his book Kosovo Crossing: American Ideals Meet Reality on the Balkan Battlefields, published by Free Press. He also answered questions from members of the audienc…

Journalist Elizabeth Becker talked about her book When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution. She spoke about reorganization of Cambodian society under the Khmer Rouge r…

Mr. Mazower spoke about his book Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century, published by Knopf. The book examines the notion of Europe as a united continent and that despite the European Un…

Mr. Howard and Mr. Lewis, editors of The Oxford History of the 20th Century discussed this collection of essays by leading scholars of modern history published by Oxford University Press. Th…

Author James Billington discussed his book The Face of Russia: Anguish, Aspiration, and Achievement in Russian Culture. The book described the evolution of art in Russia from medieval times …