Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch
Justice O’Connor talked about her memoir Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, published by Random House. Co-written with her brother, H. Alan Day, the book tells t…
2,787 viewsJustice O’Connor talked about her memoir Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest, published by Random House. Co-written with her brother, H. Alan Day, the book tells t…
2,787 viewsFormer Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev talked about his book Memoirs. He talked about his career as a Communist Party leader and his contributions to the breakup of the Soviet Union.
1,740 viewsFrances FitzGerald and Peter Kann, editors of the book Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism, talked about their experiences as reporters in the Vietnam War. Part one, 1959-69, covers comba…
1,194 viewsMs. Soames talked about her book, Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book examines the personal letters of the Churchills evok…
3,913 viewsFirst lady Hillary Rodham Clinton talked about her recently published book, It Takes a Village, and Other Lessons Children Teach Us. The book focuses on factors that influence children and t…
2,498 viewsAuthor and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. talked about his compendium titled Happy Days Were Here Again, published by Random House. The book was a collection of more than 120 articles a…
5,339 viewsMr. McCullough discussed his book, Truman published by Simon and Schuster. He discussed his research for the book, which is an exhaustive biography of the former president, spanning from a b…
7,370 viewsDoris Kearns Goodwin talked about her recently published book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II, published by Simon and Schuster. This book fo…
4,799 viewsGina Kolata discussed her book Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, published by Farrar Straus and Giroux. The author pieced to…
8,573 viewsFormerly with the Sunday Times of London and stationed in the Middle East, foreign correspondent Robin Wright catalogued her experiences of Iran in her book In the Name of God: The Khomeini …
1,918 viewsProfessor Anita Hill talked about her book, Speaking Truth to Power, published by Doubleday. The title of the book refers to her attempt in 1991 to convince the Senate Judiciary Committee th…
2,175 viewsKatharine Graham talked about her book, Personal History,published by Knopf. It was an autobiography which through her own stories dealt with the history of the Washington Post. She also tal…
8,535 viewsMelba Pattillo Beals discussed her book, Warriors Don’t Cry, which detailed her experiences as part of the first integrated class of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The author …
13,813 viewsAuthors Neil Howe and William Strauss discussed their book, Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069. The book was about the effect of generational trends on history and Am…
4,032 viewsLouise Barnett talked about her book, "Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer", published by Henry Holt and Company. She talked about the military …
4,664 viewsMr. Sides talked about his book Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission, published by Doubleday. The book tells the story of 121 elite Army Rangers w…
7,005 viewsAuthor Monica Crowley talked about her book, Nixon off the Record, published by Random House. It was based on her recordings of conversations the former president had with her and others whi…
3,450 viewsMr. Oberdorfer, author of The Turn: From the Cold War to a New Era, The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983- 1990, discussed the history of U.S.- Soviet relations, and how interaction b…
908 viewsGordon Wood talked about his book The American Revolution: A History. The book is a synthesis of several treatments and approaches of the subject, offering a comprehensive account of the eve…
8,035 viewsProfessor Randall Kennedy talked about his book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, published by Pantheon Books. The book traces the word “nigger,” to identify how it has been…
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