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Professor Benjamin Waterhouse talked about his book The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States, in which he provides a history of business in America from colonial…

Anthony Musso talked about his book FDR and the Post Office: A Young Boy’s Fascination; A World Leader’s Passion, in which he describes the child’s hobby that became the passion of a president.…

Dan Hampton talked about his book The Flight: Charles Lindbergh’s Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing, in which he reports on Charles Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic flight from New York to…

Kathryn Edin, author of $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, and Stefanie DeLuca, co-author of Coming of Age in the Other America, talked about income inequality. They spoke at…

Vanessa Williamson talked about her book Read My Lips: Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes, in which she examines Americans attitudes on the U.S. tax system in her book. Through a national…

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) talked about her book, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class, in which she examines the history and current state of the middle…

Leigh Gallagher talked about her book The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions...and Created Plenty of Controversy, in which she looks at the creation…

Elana Schor of Politico spoke by phone the congressional agenda for the week, including the release of President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget, and congressional investigation of ties…

Clifford Zink talked about his book The Roebling Legacy, in which he recounts the history of the Roebling family and its role in the industrial revolution in Trenton, New Jersey. The man behind the…

Amy Goldstein talked about her book, Janesville: An American Story, about the devastation caused by the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, during the so-called…

Professor Ganesh Sitaraman talked about his book The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic, in which he says that the Founders didn’t…

John Tamny talked about his book, Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America’s Central Bank. He spoke at the 10th…

Michael Lewis talked about his book Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, in which he looks at the work of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky that…

Tim Hernandez talked about his book, All They Will Call You. He spoke at the 5th annual San Antonio Book Festival.

Professor Lisa Servon talked about her book The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives, in which she reports on alternatives to traditional banking. Professor Servon worked…

Gerri Willis talked about her book, Rich Is Not a Four-Letter Word: How to Survive Obamacare, Trump Wall Street, Kick-start Your Retirement, and Achieve Financial Success. She spoke at the…

John Nichols talked about his book, People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy. He also responded to viewer comments and questions on politics and the…

Panelists talked about politics. Panelists included author and biographer David Maraniss and John Nichols, author of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless…

Innovation analyst Alec Ross talked about his book The Industries of the future, in which he describes the industries of the future, many of them linked to technology, such as robotics,…

Dean Baker talked about his book Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer, in which he argues that government policies, not…