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Program Archives

2002
January
6 Bill Press
Spin This!: All The Ways We Don’t Tell the Truth
13 Jeffrey Hart
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education
20 John Laurence
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story
27 Sandra Day O’Connor
Lazy B: Growing Up On a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
February
3 Ralph Nader
Crashing the Party: How to Tell the Truth and Still Run for President
10 Steve Neal
Harry & Ike: The Partnership That Remade the Postwar World
17 Edward Steers Jr.
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
24 R. Kent Newmyer
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
March
3 Randall Kennedy
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
10 Richard Lingeman
Sinclair Lewis: Rebel From Mainstreet
17 Michael Novak
On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
24 Jon Ronson
Them: Adventures with Extremists
31 Frank Wu
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
April
7 Leonard Downie Jr., Co-Author
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril
14 Ellen Joan Pollock
The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History
21 Gordon Wood
The American Revolution: A History
28 Robert Skidelsky
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946
May
5 Sarah Brady
A Good Fight
12 Jennifer Toth
What Happened to Johnnie Jordan? The Story of A Child Turning Violent
19 James Srodes
Franklin: The Essential Founding Father
26 Richard John Neuhaus
As I Lay Dying: Meditations Upon Returning
June
2 Richard Posner
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline
9 Jennet Conant
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II
16 Samantha Power
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
23 Diana Preston
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
30 John Leonard
Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures
July
7 Sandra Mackey
The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
14 Nguyen Cao Ky
Buddha’s Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam
21 Daniel Stashower
The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television
28 Beppe Severgnini
Ciao America! An Italian Discovers the U.S.
August
4 Glenn Loury
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
11 Ann Coulter
Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right
18 Simon Worrall
The Poet and the Murderer
25 Michael Oren
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
September
1 Winston Groom
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
8 Dennis Hutchinson
The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR’s Washington
15 Arnold Ludwig
King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership
22 Eliot Cohen
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
29 Pete Davies
American Road: The Story of An Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age
October
6 Zig Ziglar
Zig: The Autobiography of Zig Ziglar
13 Linda Greenlaw
The Lobster Chronicles: Life On a Very Small Island
20 Michael Mandelbaum
The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-first Century
27 Charles Slack
Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century
November
3 Caryle Murphy
Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience
10 Frank Williams
Judging Lincoln
17 Rick Atkinson
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
24 Peter Krass
Carnegie
December
1 Bruce Feiler
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
8 Michelle Malkin
Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores
15 John Taliaferro
Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore
22 Diana Walker
Public & Private: Twenty Years of Photographing the Presidency
29 Margaret MacMillan
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World


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