First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter
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January 2, 1994 |
David Levering Lewis |
W. E. B. Du Bois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
W. E. B. Du Bois
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January 9, 1994 |
William Bennett |
The Book of Virtues |
Virtue
|
January 16, 1994 |
Carolyn Barta |
Perot and His People: Disrupting the Balance of Political Power |
Ross Perot;
The Reform Party
|
January 23, 1994 |
Gary Hymel and
Tip O'Neill |
All Politics is Local and other Rules of the Game |
Memoir/
Autobiography; The
U.S. House of Representatives;
Politics of Massachusetts
|
January 30, 1994 |
William Chafe |
Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism |
Allard Lowenstein
|
February 6, 1994 |
Stanley Weintraub |
Disraeli: A Biography |
Benjamin Disraeli
|
February 13, 1994 |
Bill Emmott |
Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese |
Economy of Japan;
Anti-Japanese sentiment
|
February 20, 1994 |
Peter Arnett |
Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 years in the World's War Zones |
Memoir/
Autobiography;
Journalism; The
Vietnam War; The
Gulf War
|
February 27, 1994 |
Stephen Lesher |
George Wallace: American Populist |
George Wallace
|
March 6, 1994 |
Nathan McCall |
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America |
Memoir/
Autobiography
|
March 13, 1994 |
Norman Ornstein |
Debt and Taxes: How America Got into Its Budget Mess and What to Do About It |
Taxation in the United States;
United States public debt
|
March 20, 1994 |
Clare Brandt |
The Man in the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold |
Benedict Arnold
|
March 27, 1994 |
John Corry |
My Times: Adventures in the News Trade |
Memoir/
Autobiography;
The New York Times
|
April 3, 1994 |
Andrew Young |
A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young |
Memoir/
Autobiography;
Civil Rights Movement
|
April 10, 1994 |
Fifth Anniversary Special |
N/A |
Excerpts from and interviews about the first five years of
Booknotes
|
April 17, 1994 |
James Cannon |
Time and Change: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History |
Gerald Ford
|
May 1, 1994 |
Howell Raines |
Fly Fishing Through the Mid Life Crisis |
Memoir/
Autobiography;
Journalism
|
May 8, 1994 |
John Keegan |
A History of Warfare |
Warfare
|
May 15, 1994 |
Forrest McDonald |
The American Presidency: An Intellectual History |
President of the United States
|
May 22, 1994 |
James McPherson |
What They Fought For, 1861-1865 |
American Civil War
|
May 29, 1994 |
Pete Hamill |
A Drinking Life: A Memoir |
Memoir/
Autobiography;
Journalism
|
June 5, 1994 |
Stephen Ambrose |
D-Day: June 6, 1944—The Climactic Battle of World War II |
Operation Overlord
|
June 12, 1994 |
Mark E. Neely, Jr. |
The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America |
Abraham Lincoln
|
June 19, 1994 |
Sam Roberts |
Who We Are: A Portrait of America |
Demographics of the United States;
1990 United States Census
|
June 26, 1994 |
Lani Guinier |
The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy |
Racism in the United States
|
July 3, 1994 |
Murray Kempton |
Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events |
History of the United States;
Paul Robeson;
Cassius Clay;
A. Philip Randolph;
Karl Marx;
Ronald Reagan;
Westbrook Pegler;
Alger Hiss;
H.L. Mencken;
Whittaker Chambers
|
July 10, 1994 |
Cal Thomas |
The Things That Matter Most |
Modern liberalism in the United States;
Criticism of the War on Poverty
|
July 17, 1994 |
David Hackett Fischer |
Paul Revere's Ride |
Paul Revere;
"Paul Revere's Ride"
|
July 24, 1994 |
Dan Quayle |
Standing Firm |
Memoir/
Autobiography; The
Vice President of the United States;
George H. W. Bush
|
July 31, 1994 |
Colman McCarthy |
All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence |
Nonviolence;
Pacifism
|
August 7, 1994 |
Peter Collier |
The Roosevelts: An American Saga |
Roosevelt family
|
August 14, 1994 |
Merrill Peterson |
Lincoln in American Memory |
Abraham Lincoln;
Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
|
August 21, 1994 |
Hugh Pearson |
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America |
Huey Newton; The
Black Panthers
|
August 28, 1994 |
John Leo |
Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police |
Political correctness
|
September 4, 1994 |
Paul Weaver |
News and the Culture of Lying |
Journalism;
Pseudo-events
|
September 11, 1994 |
Shelby Foote |
Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign |
American Civil War
|
September 18, 1994 |
Irving Bartlett |
John C. Calhoun: A Biography |
John Calhoun
|
September 25, 1994 |
Ben Yagoda |
Will Rogers: A Biography |
Will Rogers
|
October 2, 1994 |
Harry Jaffe and
Tom Sherwood |
Dream City: Race, Power, and the Decline of Washington, D.C. |
Washington, D.C.
|
October 9, 1994 |
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Colored People |
African-American history;
African Americans in the 1960s
|
October 16, 1994 |
Nicholas Kristof and
Sheryl WuDunn |
China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power |
China
|
October 23, 1994 |
Liz Carpenter |
Unplanned Parenthood |
Parenting;
Old age;
Lady Bird Johnson
|
October 30, 1994 |
David Frum |
Dead Right |
Republican Party (United States)
|
November 6, 1994 |
Bill Thomas |
Club Fed: Power, Money, Sex and Violence on Capitol Hill |
Political power;
Capitol Hill
|
November 13, 1994 |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
A Journey Through Economic Time |
Economics
|
November 20, 1994 |
Milton Friedman |
Introduction to the 50th anniversary edition of
F.A. Hayek's
Road to Serfdom |
Economics;
Classical liberalism
|
November 27, 1994 |
Melba Pattillo Beals |
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High |
Memoir/
Autobiography;
Little Rock Central High School;
Little Rock Nine
|
December 4, 1994 |
Charles Murray |
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life |
Intelligence;
Race and intelligence
|
December 11, 1994 |
Elizabeth Drew |
On The Edge: The Clinton Presidency |
Bill Clinton;
Presidency of Bill Clinton
|
December 18, 1994 |
Peter Robinson |
Snapshots From Hell: The Making of an MBA |
Stanford Graduate School of Business
|
December 25, 1994 |
Glenn Frankel |
Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel |
Israel;
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
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