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Gerald Blaine, Lisa McCubbin, and Clint Hill talked about their book The Kennedy Detail: JFKs Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. In this book, for the first time, a member of President…

Leslie Dunton-Downer talked about her book The English is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World (Touchstone, 2010). English has fast become the preeminent language in business,…

Sully Sullenberger talked about his book Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters. On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger glided US Airways Flight 1549 onto the…

Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel talked about their book Blur: How to Know What’s True in the Age of Information Overload. In their book they provide a roadmap through the messy media…

Charles Ogletree talked about his book The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America. On July 16, 2009, Henry Louis Gates, Jr,. was…

Kitty Kelley talked about her book Oprah: A Biography. The celebrity biographer weaves together revelations from interviews with relatives, former lovers, and co-workers of talk show host and…

Cleo Paskal talked about Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map. In her book she combines climate research and interviews with…

Wendell Potter talked about his book Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans. Formerly a senior vice…

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann talked about their book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. The political reporters tell the inside stories…

Eugene Robinson talked about his book Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America. In his book he argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration,…

David Lynch talked about his book When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out: The World’s Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again. In his book he describes how the Irish economic boom…

Marc Thiessen talked about his book Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack. A former President George W. Bush speechwriter, Mr. Thiessen…

Linda Bauer talked about her book Capitol Hill Cooks: Recipes from the White House, Congress, and All of the Past Presidents. Recipes from members of the current Congress, as well as every…

Maurine Beasley talked about her book Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady. In her book she reveals how Mrs. Roosevelt operated, both in and out of public view, to advance the…

Hugh Pope talked about his book Dining with al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East. In his book the former Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal recounts…

James Swanson talked about his book Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln’s Corpse (William Morrow, 2010). He talked about the correspondences…

Jack Fuller talked about his book What is Happening to News: The Information Explosion and the Crisis in Journalism (University Of Chicago Press, 2010). In his book the Pulitzer…

Thomas B. Allen talked about his book Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War. A substantial portion of Americans remained loyal to Britain. Even families were divided,…

Ted Gup talked about his book A Secret Gift: How One Man’s Kindness--and a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression. The book is an account of the stories of…

Alex Kershaw talked about his book The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe in the Desperate Closing Months of World War II. In his book he tells the story of how Swedish…