First air date
(Links to video) |
Interviewee(s) |
Interviewer(s) |
Book |
Topic of interview / Comments
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| January 2, 2010 |
Gail Collins |
Gwen Ifill |
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present |
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| January 9, 2010 |
David Wessel |
Alice Rivlin |
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic |
Ben Bernanke, Financial crisis of 2007–2008
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| January 16, 2010 |
Peniel Joseph |
Kevin Merida |
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama |
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| January 23, 2010 |
Thomas Fleming |
Barbara Mitnick |
The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers |
Founding Fathers of the United States
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| January 30, 2010 |
John Yoo |
Victoria Toensing |
Crisis and Command |
|
| February 6, 2010 |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Lori Wallach |
Freefall |
Financial crisis of 2007–2008
|
| February 13, 2010 |
Garry Wills |
Tom Blanton |
Bomb Power |
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| February 20, 2010 |
Ken Gormley |
Greg Craig |
The Death of American Virtue: Clinton v. Starr |
Impeachment of Bill Clinton
|
| February 27, 2010 |
George Packer |
Christopher Hitchens |
Facing Unpleasant Facts and All Art Is Propaganda |
George Orwell
|
| March 13, 2010 |
Bill and Janet Cohen |
John Lewis |
Race & Reconciliation |
|
| March 21, 2010 |
Diane Ravitch |
Valerie Strauss |
The Death and Life of the Great American School System |
|
| March 27, 2010 |
Bill Bennett |
Walter Isaacson |
A Century Turns |
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| April 3, 2010 |
Jack Matlock |
Dimitri Simes |
Superpower Illusions: How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality |
|
| April 10, 2010 |
Deborah Amos |
Mohamad Bazzi |
Eclipse of the Sunnis |
Sunni Islam
|
| April 17, 2010 |
Harry Markopolos |
Nicole Gelinas |
No One Would Listen |
Madoff investment scandal
|
| April 24, 2010 |
Mark Perry |
Larry Johnson |
Talking to Terrorists |
|
| May 1, 2010 |
Elaine Tyler |
Christina Hoff Sommers |
America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation |
The birth control pill, Margaret Sanger, Katharine McCormick
|
| May 8, 2010 |
Piper Kerman |
Ted Conover |
Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison |
|
| May 15, 2010 |
John Kiriakou |
Frederick Hitz |
The Reluctant Spy |
|
| May 22, 2010 |
Michael Graham |
Jonathan Karl |
That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom |
The Tea Party movement
|
| May 29, 2010 |
Sebastian Junger |
Paul Rieckhoff |
War |
173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team in Afghanistan, 2007-2008
|
| May 31, 2010 |
Mitt Romney |
Juan Williams |
No Apology: The Case for American Greatness |
|
| June 5, 2010 |
Stephen Prothero |
Sally Quinn |
God is Not One |
Conceptions of God
|
| June 13, 2010 |
Gary Rivlin |
Heather Mac Donald |
Broke USA |
|
| June 26, 2010 |
Jere Van Dyk |
George Packer |
Captive: My Time As A Prisoner of the Taliban |
|
| July 10, 2010 |
Andrew Napolitano |
Ralph Nader |
Lies the Government Told You |
|
| July 11, 2010 |
Arthur Brooks and Strobe Talbott |
The Battle: How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future (by Brooks) and Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming (by Talbott) |
Brooks and Talbott interviewed each other about the other's book.
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| July 17, 2010 |
Alan Brinkley |
Sam Tanenhaus |
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century |
Henry Luce
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| July 24, 2010 |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali |
Paula Dobriansky |
Nomad |
|
| July 31, 2010 |
Carl Cannon |
Paul Clement |
Circle of Greed |
William Lerach
|
| August 7, 2010 |
Richard Whittle |
John Pike |
The Dream Machine |
V-22 Osprey
|
| August 14, 2010 |
Peter Beinart |
Mike Allen |
The Icarus Syndrome |
|
| August 21, 2010 |
Michael Belfiore |
Joanne Carney |
The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs |
DARPA
|
| August 28, 2010 |
Sebastian Mallaby |
Gillian Tett |
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite |
Hedge funds
|
| September 4, 2010 |
David Kilcullen |
Lawrence Wilkerson |
Counterinsurgency |
Counterinsurgency
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| September 11, 2010 |
Arianna Huffington |
Maria Bartiromo |
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream |
|
| September 18, 2010 |
Gabriel Schoenfeld |
Michael Mukasey |
Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law |
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| September 27, 2010 |
Louise Knight |
Dan Moshenberg |
Jane Addams: Spirit in Action |
Jane Addams
|
| October 3, 2010 |
James Swanson |
Edna Greene Medford |
Bloody Crimes |
Jefferson Davis, Funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln
|
| October 9, 2010 |
Hooman Majd |
Hamid Dabashi |
The Ayatollah's Democracy |
Politics of Iran
|
| October 16, 2010 |
Maria Bartiromo |
Yves Smith |
The Weekend That Changed Wall Street |
|
| October 23, 2010 |
Dinesh D'Souza |
Jonathan Alter |
The Roots of Obama's Rage |
|
| November 1, 2010 |
Scott Rasmussen and Doug Schoen |
Amity Shlaes |
Mad as Hell |
Tea Party movement
|
| November 14, 2010 |
Nigel Hamilton |
Richard Norton Smith |
American Caesars |
|
| November 20, 2010 |
John Dower |
Sanho Tree |
Cultures of War |
|
| November 21, 2010 |
Ron Christie |
Janet Langhart Cohen |
Acting White |
|
| November 28, 2010 |
James Zogby |
Barbara Slavin |
Arab Voices: What They Are Saying to Us and Why it Matters |
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| December 11, 2010 |
Noah Feldman |
Dahlia Lithwick |
Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices |
Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Robert Jackson, William O. Douglas
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| December 12, 2010 |
Jimmy Carter |
Doug Brinkley |
White House Diary |
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| December 18, 2010 |
Hugh Shelton |
William Cohen |
Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior |
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| December 27, 2010 |
Jane Smiley |
Cecilia Kang |
The Man Who Invented the Computer |
John Vincent Atanasoff
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