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Booknotes the television program started in April of 1989. Our third guest was journalist Bruce Oudes. His book was titled “From: The President-Richard Nixon’s Secret Files.” Because the 50t…

Megan McArdle has been a columnist for the Washington Post since 2018. She has described herself as a right-leaning libertarian. At the same time, she says she’s actually a social liberal. M…

The book is called “Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.” The author is Deborah Cohen, a professor at Northwestern University. Prof. Cohen primarily foc…

For the past twenty years, Dr. Thomas Fisher has worked in the emergency department at the University of Chicago Medical Center, serving the same South Side community in which he was raised.…

In Jeffrey Frank’s recent book titled “The Trials of Harry S. Truman,” he reports that at his low point in his time as president, Truman’s popularity rating was at 16 percent. However, seven…

The book is titled The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. The author is Christopher Leonard, the current director of the Watchdog Writers Group at the U…

The book Hitler’s American Gamble recounts the five days in 1941 that upended everything. Starting with Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 and ending with Hitler’s declaration of w…

In the dedication of his book, The Heart of Caring, Dr. Mark Vonnegut tells his patients, teachers, and parents everywhere, “Thank you for letting me have such a good time when I go to work.…

On the dust jacket of Debby Applegate’s book “Madam” it says “Simply put: Everybody came to Polly’s.” Polly being Polly Adler, the madam of some of the most popular brothels in New York City…

In March of 2017, Lance Geiger, from the basement of his house in O’Fallon, Illinois, created a new business, a YouTube show that is now regularly seen by hundreds of thousands of people. Si…

WASPs - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants - such as Henry Adams, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Dean Acheson, and Joe Alsop, held an outsized influence on American culture and history for much …

Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary were the parents of four boys. Only one--Robert--lived beyond his eighteenth birthday. Author Jason Emerson spent nearly a decade researching the 82-plus ye…

From 1946 to 1958, the U.S. government conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, a chain of islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean that had been inhabited for thousands of y…

Edward Moser has been a speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush and a writer for the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” He currently works as a tour guide, historian, and author. We spoke to …

Keith Richburg, a native of Detroit, has been a print journalist for nearly his entire life. During his 30 years at the Washington Post he reported from countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, an…

In 2019, through FOIA requests and lawsuits, the Washington Post obtained hundreds of interviews conducted by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) for its Les…

Harry McPherson talked about his career working with Lyndon B. Johnson, and responded to portions of the White House audio tapes which were played on the program. He responded to viewer tele…

Senator Conrad Burns, R-Montana, talked about his radio background. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, talked about Senate activities over the past week. This was the first da…