First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter |
January 5, 1997 |
Edward Jay Epstein |
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer |
Armand Hammer |
January 12, 1997 |
Robert Ferrell |
The Strange Deaths of President Harding |
Warren G. Harding |
January 19, 1997 |
Alfred Zacher |
Trial and Triumph: Presidential Power in the Second Term |
President of the United States |
January 23, 1997 |
Anita Hill |
Speaking Truth to Power |
Memoir/Autobiography; Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination |
January 26, 1997 |
David Boaz |
Libertarianism: A Primer |
Libertarianism |
February 2, 1997 |
Henry Grunwald |
One Man's America: A Journalist's Search for the Heart of His Country |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; Time Magazine |
February 9, 1997 |
John Brady |
Bad Boy: The Life and Politics of Lee Atwater |
Lee Atwater |
February 16, 1997 |
Katharine Graham |
Personal History |
Memoir/Autobiography; The Washington Post; The Washington Post Company |
February 23, 1997 and March 2, 1997 |
Sam Tanenhaus |
Whittaker Chambers: A Biography |
Whittaker Chambers |
March 9, 1997 |
Sarah Gordon |
Passage to Union: How the Railroads Transformed American Life, 1829-1929 |
History of rail transport in North America |
March 19, 1997 |
John Fialka |
War By Other Means: Economic Espionage in America |
Industrial espionage |
March 23, 1997 |
Jon Katz |
Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits & Blockheads Like William Bennett |
William Bennett |
March 30, 1997 |
Claude Andrew Clegg III |
An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad |
Elijah Muhammad |
April 6, 1997 |
Keith Richburg |
Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa |
Africa |
April 13, 1997 |
David Horowitz |
Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey |
Memoir/Autobiography; American Left |
April 20, 1997 |
Leonard Garment |
Crazy Rhythm: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street, to Nixon's White House, Watergate and Beyond |
Memoir/Autobiography; Billie Holiday Category:Presidency of Richard Nixon |
April 27, 1997 |
Stephen Oates |
The Approaching Fury: Voices of the Storm, 1820-1861 |
Origins of the American Civil War |
May 4, 1997 |
Christopher Buckley |
Wry Martinis |
Essays |
May 11, 1997 |
Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro |
The Coming Conflict with China |
Sino-American relations |
May 18, 1997 |
Anne Matthews |
Bright College Years: Inside the American Campus Today |
Higher education in the United States |
May 25, 1997 |
Jane Holtz Kay |
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back |
Automotive industry in the United States |
June 1, 1997 |
Jill Krementz |
The Writer's Desk |
Creative writing; Kurt Vonnegut |
June 8, 1997 |
Pavel Palazchenko |
My Years With Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter |
Memoir/Autobiography; Mikhail Gorbachev; Eduard Shevardnadze |
June 15, 1997 |
Walter A. McDougall |
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 |
Foreign policy of the United States |
June 22, 1997 |
James Humes |
Confessions of a White House Ghostwriter: Five Presidents and other Political Adventures |
Memoir/Autobiography; Speechwriting |
June 29, 1997 |
Walter Cronkite |
A Reporter's Life |
Memoir/Autobiography; Journalism; CBS News |
July 6, 1997 |
Jack Rakove |
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution |
The U.S. Constitution |
July 13, 1997 |
Tom Clancy and Gen. Fred Franks |
Into the Storm: A Study in Command |
General officers in the United States; General (United States) |
July 20, 1997 |
Robert Hughes |
American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America |
Visual art of the United States |
July 27, 1997 |
Sylvia Jukes Morris |
Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce |
Clare Boothe Luce |
August 3, 1997 |
LeAlan Jones |
Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago |
Ghetto Life 101; Ida B. Wells Homes |
August 10, 1997 |
James Tobin |
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II |
Ernie Pyle |
August 17, 1997 |
Pauline Maier |
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence |
The Declaration of Independence |
August 24, 1997 |
Peter Maas |
Underboss: Sammy The Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia |
Sammy "The Bull" Gravano |
August 28, 1997 |
John Berendt |
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story |
Savannah, Georgia; Jim Williams |
August 31, 1997 |
Frank McCourt |
Angela's Ashes |
Memoir/Autobiography; Limerick, Ireland; Brooklyn, New York; Irish Americans; Malachy McCourt; Alphie McCourt |
September 7, 1997 |
Brian Burrell |
The Words We Live By: The Creeds, Mottoes, and Pledges That Have Shaped America |
Creeds; Mottoes; Oaths; The Pledge of Allegiance; "In God We Trust" |
September 14, 1997 |
John Toland |
Captured By History: One Man's Vision of Our Tumultuous Century |
20th century |
September 21, 1997 |
Peter Gomes |
The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart |
The Bible |
October 5, 1997 |
Howard Gardner |
Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sigmund Freud; Virginia Woolf; Mahatma Gandhi |
October 12, 1997 |
Geoffrey Perret |
Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier & President |
Ulysses S. Grant |
October 19, 1997 |
Nat Hentoff |
Speaking Freely: A Memoir |
Memoir/Autobiography; First Amendment; Jazz |
October 26, 1997 |
Alan Schom |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
November 2, 1997 |
Thomas West |
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America |
Founding Fathers of the United States |
November 16, 1997 |
David Gelernter |
Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber |
The Unabomber |
November 30, 1997 |
Jeff Shesol |
Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade |
Lyndon Johnson; Robert Kennedy |
December 7, 1997 |
Tim Russert |
Meet the Press: 50 Years of History in the Making |
Meet the Press |
December 14, 1997 |
Susan Butler |
East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart |
Amelia Earhart |
December 21, 1997 |
Jim Hightower |
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos |
Progressivism in the United States |
December 28, 1997 |
Sally Quinn |
The Party: A Guide to Adventurous Entertaining |
Dinner parties |