First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter
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January 5, 2003 |
Hugh Price |
Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible |
Education in the United States
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January 12, 2003 |
Andrew Roberts |
Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It |
Napoleon Bonaparte; The Duke of Wellington; The Battle of Waterloo
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January 19, 2003 |
Warren Zimmermann |
First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power |
John Hay; Henry Cabot Lodge; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Theodore Roosevelt; Elihu Root
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January 26, 2003 |
Robert Coram |
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War |
John Boyd
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February 2, 2003 |
Stephen Schwartz |
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’ud from Tradition to Terror |
Wahhabism
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February 9, 2003 |
Amy Chua |
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability |
Globalization; Democratization; Middleman minorities
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February 16, 2003 |
Robert Kagan |
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order |
Foreign policy of the United States; Politics of Europe
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February 23, 2003 |
Joy Hakim |
Freedom: A History of US |
A History of US
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March 2, 2003 |
John McWhorter |
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority |
African Americans
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March 9, 2003 |
Dana Priest |
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military |
United States Armed Forces
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March 16, 2003 |
Michael Howard |
The First World War |
World War I
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March 23, 2003 |
Bernard Bailyn |
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders |
Founding Fathers of the United States
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March 30, 2003 |
Mona Charen |
Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First |
American Left; The Cold War
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April 6, 2003 |
Roy Morris, Jr. |
Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876 |
Rutherford B. Hayes; Samuel Tilden; 1876 United States presidential election
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April 13, 2003 |
Philip Taubman |
Secret Empire: Eisenhower, The CIA, and The Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage |
Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower; The Central Intelligence Agency; Spy satellites
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April 20, 2003 and April 27, 2003 |
William Taubman |
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
Nikita Khrushchev
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May 4, 2003 |
Dorothy Rabinowitz |
No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times |
Day care sex abuse hysteria; Fells Acres day care sexual abuse trial; Gerald Amirault; McMartin preschool trial
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May 11, 2003 |
Monica Langley |
Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World And Then Nearly Lost it All |
Sandy Weill
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May 18, 2003 |
Paul Theroux |
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town |
Travel literature; Africa
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May 25, 2003 |
Anne Applebaum |
Gulag: A History |
Gulag
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June 1, 2003 |
Raymond Strother |
Falling Up: How a Redneck Helped Invent Political Consulting |
Memoir/Autobiography; Political consulting
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June 8, 2003 |
Azar Nafisi |
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books |
Memoir/Autobiography; Women's rights in Iran; Politics of Iran; Higher education in Iran
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June 15, 2003 |
Eric Schlosser |
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market |
Underground economy; Cannabis in the United States; Pornography in the United States; Economic impact of illegal immigrants in the United States
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June 22, 2003 |
Paul Berman |
Terror and Liberalism |
War on Terror; Islamic terrorism
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June 29, 2003 |
Vartan Gregorian |
The Road to Home: My Life and Times |
Memoir/Autobiography; Iranian Armenians; The Carnegie Corporation
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July 6, 2003 |
Jon Kukla |
A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America |
The Louisiana Purchase
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July 13, 2003 |
Willard Scott |
The Older the Fiddle, the Better the Tune: The Joys of Reaching a Certain Age |
Memoir/Autobiography; Aging
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July 20, 2003 |
Connie Bruck |
When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence |
Lew Wasserman
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July 27, 2003 |
Kenneth Ackerman |
Dark Horse: The Surprise Election and Political Murder of President James A. Garfield |
James Garfield
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August 3, 2003 |
Dorothy Height |
Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir |
Memoir/Autobiography; National Council of Negro Women
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August 10, 2003 |
Gretchen Rubin |
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life |
Winston Churchill
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August 17, 2003 |
David Lipsky |
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point |
The United States Military Academy
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August 24, 2003 |
Adam Bellow |
In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History |
Nepotism
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August 31, 2003 |
Robert Darnton |
George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century |
The Enlightenment; The French Revolution; the 18th century
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September 7, 2003 |
Michael Parenti |
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome |
Julius Caesar; Assassination of Julius Caesar; Ancient Rome
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September 14, 2003 |
Erik Larson |
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America |
The World's Columbian Exposition; Daniel Burnham; H.H. Holmes
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September 21, 2003 |
Eric Rauchway |
Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America |
Leon Czolgosz; Assassination of William McKinley; Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
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September 28, 2003 |
Victor Davis Hanson |
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming |
Mexifornia
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October 5, 2003 |
David Von Drehle |
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America |
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
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October 12, 2003 |
Jessica Stern |
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill |
Religious terrorism; Christian terrorism; Islamic terrorism; Jewish terrorism
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October 19, 2003 |
Lance Morrow |
Evil: An Investigation |
Evil
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October 26, 2003 |
Jill Jonnes |
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World |
Thomas Edison; Nicola Tesla; George Westinghouse; History of electromagnetism
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November 2, 2003 |
James Bovard |
Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil |
Criticism of the War on Terror; Civil liberties in the United States
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November 9, 2003 |
Rich Lowry |
Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years |
Presidency of Bill Clinton
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November 16, 2003 |
Michael Moore |
Dude, Where's My Country? |
Criticism of the Iraq War; Enron scandal
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November 23, 2003 |
Tom Coburn |
Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders |
United States House of Representatives; The Republican Revolution
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November 30, 2003 |
Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) |
Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America |
107th United States Congress
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December 7, 2003 |
Richard Pipes |
Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger |
Memoir/Autobiography; Harvard University; Soviet Union–United States relations
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December 14, 2003 |
Gail Collins |
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines |
History of women in the United States
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December 21, 2003 |
Matthew Pinsker |
Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home |
President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home
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December 28, 2003 |
Carl Cannon |
The Pursuit of Happiness in Times of War |
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; Home front
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