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Steven Pinker talked about his book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, in which he questions why so much of our writing today is bad. Professor …

Mark Obama Ndesandjo, President Barack Obama’s half-brother, talked about his book, An Obama’s Journey: My Odyssey of Self-Discovery across Three Cultures, in which he discusses his relation…

Alan Weisman talked about his book Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle. The book is about the life and career of Richard Perle, an influential shaper of American foreign policy since the 1980s…

Ray Moynihan talked about the book he co-wrote with Alan Cassels, Selling Sickness: How the World’s Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients, published by Nation Bo…

Darren Staloff talked about his book Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding, published by Hill and Wang. In his book Professor Staloff writes th…

Katherine Eban talked about her book Dangerous Doses: How Counterfeiters Are Contaminating America’s Drug Supply, published by Harcourt. She also read passages from her book and responded t…

Ken Auletta talked about his book Media Man: Ted Turner’s Improbable Empire, published by W. W. Norton and Company. He spoke about some of the major events in Ted Turner’s television career…

John Hess talked about his book, “My Times: A Memoir of Dissent". The book provides an insider’s view of operations at the New York Times by a newspaperman who worked there for twenty-four …

Mr. Epstein talked about his book, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington, published by Ballantine Books. The poet first encountered the president in New York City on t…

Alyn Brodsky talked about his latest book, "The Great Mayor: Fiorello La Guardia and the Making of the City of New York". The book is a biography of Fiorello La Guardia. It details his life…

Mr. Menand talked about his book The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux . The book is about four philosophers, three of whom helped form the …

Mr. Karabell talked about his book, A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead, published by HarperCollins. The book is about the cyclical nature of visions an…

Timothy Castle talked about his book “One Day Too Long: Top Secret Site 85 and the Bombing of North Vietnam” published by Columbia University Press. The book details the story of a secret Ai…

Scott Anderson talked about his biography, "The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny". The book describes the life of Texan Fred Cuny…