All Episodes

BN+: Valerie Fridland, "Why We Talk Funny"

ABC: Geraldine Brooks on Memoir, Fiction & War Reporting

AW: The Politicization of the Justice Department

Claudia Rowe, "Wards of the State"

Q&A: David McKean and M. Todd Bennett, "The Flag Was Still There"

ABC: Danielle Allen & Walter Isaacson on the Declaration of Independence

AW: American Struggle with Jon Meacham

BN+: Richard Brookhiser, "The Hero Returns"

Q&A: Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan, "Regime Change"

Mollie Hemingway, "Alito"

ABC: Pulitzer Winner Doris Kearns Goodwin on America’s Greatest Presidents

AW: Screen People - How We Entertained Ourselves into a State of Emergency

BN+: Michael Cullinane, "Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet"

Q&A: Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing" – Part Two

Kara Swisher on the Future of Technology and Journalism

AW: Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China

David Garrow on Martin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama

Q&A: Sarah Isgur, "Last Branch Standing"

ABC: Lois Romano on Mary Todd Lincoln's Life, Legacy and Mental Health

AW: The Future is Peace with Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon

BN+: Lerone Bennett Jr., "Forced Into Glory"

Jonathan Wilson, "The Power and the Glory"

David Baldacci on Writing Thrillers and Becoming a Bestselling Author

AW: Suing the NSA and Fighting Digital Surveillance

Lois Romano, "An Inconvenient Widow"

Q&A: Gayle Feldman, "Nothing Random"

Ann Patchett on Writing, Bookstores & Storytelling with David Rubenstein

AW: "Poisoned Ivies" with R-NY Rep. Elise Stefanik

Danny Funt, "Everybody Loses"

Q&A: Lamar Alexander, "Education of a Senator"

AW: The Pilots who Evacuated Ebola Patients in 2014

BN+: Theo Baker, "How to Rule the World"

Q&A: Adam Szetela, "That Book Is Dangerous!"

ABC: Candice Millard Discusses Theodore Roosevelt, James A. Garfield & Winston Churchill

AW: Modern Russian History through the Experiences of its Women

Harvey Mansfield, "Where Harvard Went Wrong"

Q&A: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Discusses Heroes of 1776

ABC: Heather Cox Richardson on Democracy, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War

AW: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care

Bruce Nichols, "The Emerson Circle"

Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro

ABC: Douglas Brinkley on America at 250, D-Day, and the Space Race

The 1990s Golden Era of Black Sitcoms

Craig Fehrman, "This Vast Enterprise"

Q&A: Jean Becker & Tom Collamore, "Don't Tell the President"

ABC: America’s Book Club: Andrew Ross Sorkin in Conversation with David Rubenstein

AW: Palantir's CTO on Rebuilding the American Industrial Base

Antony Beevor, "Rasputin"

Q&A: Howard Mortman, "Extreme Mortman" Podcast Host

ABC: Pulitzer Finalist Alice McDermott Talks Novels and Writing Process with David Rubenstein

AW: What is conciousness? with Michael Pollan

Bob Crawford, "America's Founding Son"

Q&A: Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker"

ABC: David Rubenstein on the Presidency, Congress & Economy — Interview with Evan Smith at Tulane Book Festival

AW: The Problem with Plastic

BN+: Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo"

Q&A: Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum

AW: Reagan's Invasion of Grenada During the Cold War

BN+: Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes"

ABC: Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover Biography & American History Road Trip

Q&A: Lloyd Blankfein on “Streetwise,” Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 Financial Crisis

The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

BN+: Michael Hastings, "The Operators"

Q&A: New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House

AW: The Impact Of Wealth Concentration On Society And Politics

BN+: Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel

Q&A: Lee Bollinger Discusses University: A Reckoning and Academic Freedom in America

AW: A Former US Marine's Journey from Russian Prison to the Ukrainian War

BN+: Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"

Q&A: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), "Young Man in a Hurry"

ABC: Journalists Peter Baker & Susan Glasser Discuss Profiling Putin, Trump, and Other Leaders

AW: How AI is Transforming Healthcare

BN+: Richard John Neuhaus, "As I Lay Dying"

Q&A: Steve Israel Explores Espionage and Science in The Einstein Conspiracy

ABC: Pulitzer Winner Rick Atkinson on Revolutionary War and WWII Trilogies with David Rubenstein

AW: America's Black Botanical Legacy

BN+: David Sirota on Master Plan: How Corporate Power Reshaped America

Q&A: Wil Haygood Explores Race, Conflict, and the Vietnam War in The War Within a War

ABC: Linda Chavez: Former Reagan Official and Conservative Commentator

AW: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia

BN+: Elliot Williams, "Five Bullets"

Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

AW: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History

BN+: Candace Rondeaux, "Putin's Sledgehammer"

Q&A: Teasel Muir-Harmony, History of the U.S. Space Program

AW: The State and the Soldier

BN+: Carol Hymowitz on 10 Books That Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work

Q&A: Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story"

ABC: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian Jon Meacham

AW: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary with Stafan Fatsis

BN+: Jonathan Horn, "The Fate of the Generals"

ABC News Journalist Jonathan Karl on Retribution

ABC: Christopher Buckley on Satire, Politics, and Writing Fiction

AW:Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen Discuss Satire and American Culture

BN+: Anne Marshall, "Cassius Marcellus Clay"

Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

AW: Jonathan Mahler on Power, Politics, and the Making of Modern New York

BN+: Ben Freeman, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine"

Q&A: Gary Walters, "White House Memories 1970-2007"

Cal Ripken Jr.: Baseball Iron Man on 2,632 Consecutive Games and His Hall of Fame Career

AW: Ben Shapiro Argues the World Is Divided Over the Future of Western Civilization

BN+: John Ferling, "Shots Heard Round the World"

Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

AW: Rachel Corbett Explores Online Harassment in Monsters We Make

BN+: Frank McCourt on Angela’s Ashes: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Memoir

Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

AW: Bill McKibben on Climate Change: Why Solar and Wind Power Are the Best Path Forward

BN+: Peter Gomes, "The Good Book"

Q&A: Charles Murray, "Taking Religion Seriously"

ABC: Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove on Poetry and American History

AW: Piers Morgan "Woke Is Dead: How Common Sense triumphed in an age of total madness"

BN+: Alexandra Churchill, "Ring of Fire"

Q&A: Charles Ferguson, "Presidential Seclusion"

ABC: Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks Explains What Makes Us Happy

AW: The Art Spy: Michelle Young Chronicles Rose Valland’s WWII Mission

BN+: Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"

Q&A: Eugene Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director & Author

ABC: Jodi Picoult on Storytelling, Ethics, and the Power of Fiction

AW: David Gelles on How Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Built a Purpose-Driven Company

BN+: Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"

Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

AW: Ken Vogel’s “Devils’ Advocates”: Inside Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and D.C.’s Hidden Foreign Influence Networks

BN+: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story

Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom, "In the Name of Freedom"

ABC: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

AW: Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty on Understanding Today’s Russia

BN+: Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"

Q&A: Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership

ABC: Walter Isaacson on the Minds That Shape Our Modern World

After Words: George Selgin, "False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Bitcoin"

BN+: William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"

Q&A: Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

2025 Printers Row Lit Fest: Maureen Dowd on the Culture of Celebrity in America

David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History

BN+: Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Pulitzer Prize Author Stacy Schiff on Writing History That Feels Alive

Eric Trump, "Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation"

BN+: Geri Spieler, "Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford"

Q&A: Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood

Justice Amy Coney Barrett on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"

Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

BN+: Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Q&A: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin

From the Library of Congress: John Grisham on Storytelling and Justice

AW: "Rocket Dreams..." C. Davenport, Musk, Bezos and space race

BN+: Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s

AW: Jane Goodall "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink"

BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power

Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"

AW: Trump 2024: Joe Concha on Strategy, Media, and The Greatest Comeback Ever

BN+: Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"

Q&A: Every Screen on the Planet: Emily Baker-White on the Future of Technology and Society

AW: The Mission: Tim Weiner on How the CIA Operates in the Modern Era

BN+: Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century

Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

Lee Tilghman on ‘If You Don’t Like This I Might Die’: Life Inside Influencer Culture

BN+: Edward Luce, "Zbig"- Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy

Q&A: Ann Butler, "Wife, Mother, Spy" — Women, Espionage, and the CIA

AW: Gianno Caldwell, "The Day My Brother Was Murdered" — Crime, Justice, and Loss

BN+: Simon Ball, "Death to Order"

Q&A: John Malone, "Born to Be Wired"

AW: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

BN+: Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"

Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

AW: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"

Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

AW: Michael Grynbaum, "Empire of the Elite"

BN+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

AW: Isabel Allende, "My Name Is Emilia del Valle"

BN+: David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"

Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

AW: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager & Isaac Arnsdorf, "2024"

BN+: Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"

Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

AW: "Framed," John Grisham and Jim McCloskey

BN+: John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"

Q&A: Cornel West & Robert George, "Truth Matters"

AW: Patrick McGee, "Apple in China"

BN+: Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"

Q&A: Presidential Legacies

AW: Bill Clinton and James Patterson, "First Gentleman"

BN+: Dave Barry, "Class Clown"

Dr. Robert Malone, "PsyWar"

AW: Senator Lisa Murkowski, "Far From Home"

BN+: John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"

Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

AW: Jose Andres. "Change the Recipe"

BN+: Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"

Q&A: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

Dave and Dina McCormick, "Who Believed in You?"

BN+: William Geroux, "The Fifteen"

Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

AW: Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults

BN+: Claire Hoffman, "Sister, Sinner"

Q&A: Mark Whitaker, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X"

AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

BN+: Kathryn Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen"

Q&A: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-Founder

AW: Stephanie Land, "Maid"

BN+: Kenneth Rogoff, "Our Dollar, Your Problem"

Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

BN+: Rick Atkinson, "The Fate of the Day"

Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

BN+: Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn"

Q&A: Christopher Cox, "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn"

AW: Leah Litman, "Lawless - How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes"

BN+: Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"

Q&A: John Kasich, "Heaven Help Us"

AW: Sophie Gilbert, "Girl on Girl - How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves"

BN+: Clay Risen, "Red Scare"

Q&A: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

AW: David Graham, "The Project - How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America"

BN+: Jill Eicher, "Mellon vs. Churchill"

Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

AW: Stephen Witt, "The Thinking Machine - Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip"

BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"

Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other

BN+: Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"

Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

AW: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), "Turnaround - America's Revival"

BN+: Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"

Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

AW: David Enrich, "Murder the Truth"

BN+: Dennis Hutchinson, "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"

Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

AW: Paul Blustein, "King Dollar - The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency"'

BN+: Stuart Banner, "The Most Powerful Court in the World"

Q&A: Loretta Ross, "Calling In"

AW: Michael Lewis, "Who is Government?"

The C-SPAN Story

BN+: Steven Gillon, "Presidents at War"

Q&A: Meryl Gordon, "The Woman Who Knew Everyone"

AW: Dr. Adam Ratner, "Booster Shots -The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health"

BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"

Q&A: Rep. James Comer (R-KY), "All the President's Money"

AW: Omar El Akkad, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

BN+: Katherine Carter, "Churchill's Citadel"

Q&A: Tara Roberts, "Written in the Waters"

Kevin Fagan, "The Lost and the Found - A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances"

BN+: Ruth Franklin, "The Many Lives of Anne Frank"

Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 2

AW: Eve Ewing, "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism"

BN+: Sean McMeekin, "July 1914"

Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 1

AW: Anson Frericks, "Last Call for Bud Light"

BN+: David Levering Lewis, "The Stained Glass Window"

Q&A: Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

AW: Omo Moses, "The White Peril - A Family Memoir"

BN+: Jane Calvert, "Penman of the Founding"

Q&A: Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance"

After Words: Eva Dou, House of Huawei - The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company"

BN+: Robert Kaplan, "Waste Land"

Q&A: Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 2

BN+: John Berendt, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

Q&A: Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 1

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), "It Takes Chutzpah - How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change"

BN+: Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer on His Life & Work

Q&A: Sharon McMahon, "The Small and the Mighty"

AW: Adam Chandler, "99% Perspiration - A New Working History of the American Way of Life"

BN+: Michael Tackett, "The Price of Power"

Q&A: Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

AW: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), "We Before Me"

Brion McClanahan, "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America"

Q&A: Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

BN+: Peter Osnos, "LBJ & McNamara"

Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

AW: Andy Puzder, "A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims"

BN+: Edward Aldrich, "The Partnership"

Q&A: Larry Silverstein, "The Rising"

AW: James Rickards, "MoneyGPT - AI and the Threat to the Global Economy"

BN+: James Bradley, "Martin Van Buren"

Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell, "Revenge of the Tipping Point"

AW: T.J. English, "Los Muchachos,"

AB: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

BN+: Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men"

Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

BN+: Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People"

Q&A: Peggy Noonan, "A Certain Idea of America"

AW: Stephanie Gorton, "The Icon and the Idealist - Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America"

BN+: Talmage Boston, "How the Best Did It"

Q&A: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

AW: Vince Beiser, "Power Metal - The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future"

AB: James Patterson, "American Heroes"

BN+: Kyla Scanlon, "In This Economy?"

Q&A: Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"

AW: Tom Fitton, "Rights and Freedoms in Peril - An Investigative Report on the Left's Attack on America"

BN+: Tess Owen, "Inside the Patriot Wing"

AW: Lina Zeldovich, "The Living Medicine"

Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

AB: Miranda Devine on the Biden Family

BN+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"

Q&A: Pamela Toler, "The Dragon from Chicago"

AW: Rep. Mike Waltz, "Hard Truths - Think and Lead Like a Green Beret"

BN+: Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"

Q&A: John Mackey, "The Whole Story" & Steven Pinker, "Rationality"

AW: Stephanie Baker "Punishing Putin"

BN+: Brenda Wineapple, "Keeping the Faith"

Q&A: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

AW: Brigid Schulte, "Over Work"

AB: Kirk Cameron, "Born to Be Brave

BN+: Harvey Mansfield on Presidential Immunity

Q&A: Francis Collins, "The Road to Wisdom"

AW: Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom"

BN+: Megan Gorman, "All the Presidents' Money"

Q&A: Michael & Robert Meeropol, Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on the Rosenberg Spy Case

AW: Paola Ramos, "Defectors -The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America"

AB: Fall Book Preview 2024

BN+: Lindsay Chervinsky, "Making the Presidency"

Q&A: James Allen, Jr., "Not My Chair"

AW: Brooke Harrington, "Offshore - Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"

BN+: Dr. Marty Makary, "Blind Spots"

Q&A: Peter Osnos, "LBJ and McNamara"

AW: Kim Wehle, "Pardon Power - How the Pardon System Works - and Why"

AB: Patrick Oliver, founder and CEO of Say It Loud! Readers & Writers

BN+: Ken Khachigian, "Behind Closed Doors"

Q&A: Steven Ford on Gerald Ford's Presidency

AW: Joel Pollak, "The Agenda - What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days"

BN+: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 2

Q&A: Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

BN+: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 1

Q&A: Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

BN+: Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money"

Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

BN+: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"

Q&A: World War II Veterans Steven Ellis & Rolf Slen

BN+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"

Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

BN+: Former Washington Post Reporter & Professor Leon Dash

Q&A: Tammy Bruce, "Fear Itself"

AW: Peter Goodman, "How the World Ran Out of Everything"

BN+: Ronald Feinman, "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency"

Q&A: J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"

AW: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

AB: The 2024 Kukula Book Review Awards

BN+: Nigel West, "Operation Garbo"

Q&A: Riley Gaines, "Swimming Against the Current"

AW: Soraya Chemaly, "The Resilience Myth"

Meg Medina on Reading & Young People

BN+: Investigative Reporter Brody Mullins on Google & Law Professor Joshua Wright, and "The Wolves of K Street"

Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"

BN+: Robert Schmuhl, "Mr. Churchill in the White House"

Q&A: Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"

AW: Ruchir Sharma, "What Went Wrong with Capitalism"

BN+: David Tatel, "Vision"

Q&A: Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"

AW: Lawrence Ingrassia, "A Fatal Inheritance - How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery"

AB: Cass Sunstein on Campus Free Speech

BN+: Historian Stacey Schiff at Purdue University

Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director

AW: Ernesto Londoño, "Trippy - The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics"

BN+: Garrett Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive"

Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"

AW: Shefali Luthra, "Undue Burden - Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America"

AB: Andrea Fleck-Nisbet on Independent Book Publishing

BN+: Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"

Q&A: World War II Veterans Steve Ellis & Rolf Slen

AW: Mike Hixenbaugh, "They Came for the Schools"

BN+: Glenn Loury, "Late Admissions"

Q&A: Betty Koed, "Scenes"

BN+: Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"

Q&A: Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"

AW: Jim Wallis, "The False White Gospel"

BN+: Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"

Q&A: Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"

AW: Johann Hari, "Magic Pill"

AB: Children's Book Author Jonah Winter on Censorship

BN+: Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"

Q&A: Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"

AW: David Sanger, "New Cold Wars"

BN+: Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"

Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"

AW: Susan Page, "The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters"

AB: Publishing Analyst Brenna Connor on Book Sales in 2024

BN+: Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"

Q&A: Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen, "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"

AW: Eddie Glaude, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"

BN+: Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series

Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"

AW: Batya Ungar-Sargon "Second Class"

AB: Danny Heitman on Rereading the Classics

BN+: Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"

Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"

AW: Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War"

BN+: Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"

Q&A: Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"

AW: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"

AB: Jonathan Karp on 100 years of Simon & Schuster

BN+: Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"

Q&A: Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"

AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

BN+: Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"

Q&A: Rob Henderson, "Troubled"

AW: Jane Marie, "Selling the Dream"

AB: 2024 Spring Book Preview

BN+: James Traub, "True Believer"

Q&A: Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"

AW: Dr. Elizabeth Comen, "All in Her Head"

BN+: Peter Englund, "November 1942"

Q&A: Katie Rogers, "American Woman"

AW: Kara Swisher, "Burn Book - A Tech Love Story"

Tony Lyons of Skyhorse Publishing

BN+: Jim Trusty, Defense Attorney

Q&A: Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"

AW: Marie Arana, "LatinoLand - A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority"

BN+: Glenn Kirschner, Former Federal Prosecutor & "Justice Matters" Host

Q&A: Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates

AW: Andrew Curran, "Who’s Black and Why?"

AB: Daniel Paisner on Ghostwriting

BN+: Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg"

Q&A: Charles Scribner III, "Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing"

AW: Coleman Hughes, "The End of Race Politics"

BN+: Benn Steil, "The World That Wasn't"

QA: Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur

AW: Ijeoma Oluo, "Be a Revolution"

AB: Mary Beth Tinker on Book Bans & Free Speech

BN: H.W. Brands, "Founding Partisans"

QA: Betty Koed, "Scenes"

AW: Donald McNeil, "The Wisdom of Plagues - Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics"

BN: Ep 150 Nigel Hamilton, "FDR at War" Trilogy

AW: David Stockman, "Trump's War on Capitalism"

AB: Brad Meltzer's Ordinary People Change the World Series

BN: Kira Anne West, Defense Attorney

AW: Rachel Slade, "Making It in America"

BN: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife"

Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"

AW: Peter Biskind, "Pandora's Box - How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV"

AB: John Sargent, "Turning Pages"

BN: Ross Perot on His Life & Career

Q&A: Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"

BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen

BN: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "How Do We Get Out of Here?"

Q&A: Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"

BN: Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear"

Q&A: Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"

AW: Tim Alberta "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"

BN: Michael Bryant (Co-Editor), "Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust"

Q&A: Daryl Davis, Musician & Author

AW: Jeff Horwitz, "Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets"

AB: Transit Books with Adam Levy

BN: McKay Coppins, "Romney"

Q&A: Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"

AW: Jennifer Burns, "Milton Friedman - The Last Conservative"

BN: Historians Douglas Brinkley, Joanne Freeman, Edna Medford and H.W. Brands on the Experiment of Democracy in America

Q&A: Jesse Holland, "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House"

BN: Sarah Ogilvie, "The Dictionary People"

Q&A: Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.”

AW: Fei-Fei Li, "The World's I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI"

BTSA: "The Words of Cesar Chavez" with historian Miriam Pawl

BN: Martin Gurri, "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium"

Q&A: Rosemary Stevens, "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau"

AW: Greg Lukianoff, "The Canceling of the American Mind"

BTSA: "Free to Choose" Milton & Rose Friedman with Prof. Mark Skousen

AB: Stephen Friot, "Containing History"

BN: Robert Hartley, "Purpose, Power & Prison"

Q&A: Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment"

AW: Ruth Simmons, "Up Home - One Girl's Journey"

BTSA: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston w/ Prof. Gary Richards

BN: Ben Stein, "The Peacemaker"

Q&A: Tom Cronin, "Imagining a Great Republic"

AW: Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"

BTSA: "My Antonia" by Willa Cather w/ Historian Richard Norton Smith

AB: Book Bans & School Libraries

BN: Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock"

Q&A: Elizabeth Papez on Chief Justices of the Supreme Court

AW: Ryan Reilly, "Sedition Hunters - How January 6th Broke the Justice System"

BTSA: The Life of Mark Twain w/ Professor Matt Seybold

BTSA: "The Common Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes w/ Historian Stephen Budiansky

BN: Diana Henriques, "Taming the Street"

AW: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun"

BN: Kenneth Rendell, "Safeguarding History"

Q&A: Michael Green, "The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership"

AW: Melissa Kearney, "The Two-Parent Privilege"

BTSA: Life of Frederick Douglas w/ Prof. David Blight

BN: Fox News Contributor Karl Rove on America's Broken Politics

QA: Randall Eliason, On Senator Bob Menendez's First Trial

AW: Adam Nagourney, "The Times"

AB: The Internet Archive & Digital Libraries

BTSA: Journals of Lewis and Clark w/ Author Lanny Jones

BN: Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons"

AW: Meg Kissinger, "While You Were Out - An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence"

BTSA: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay "The Federalist Papers"

BN: Erec Smith, Co-Founder of Free Black Thought

Q&A: Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War

AW: Loren Grush, "The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts"

AB: Fall Book Preview with Colette Bancroft

BTSA: Professor Richard Bell on "Common Sense" Thomas Paine (1776)

BN: Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"

Q&A: Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"

AW: Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School"

BN: Politico's Kyle Cheney on the January 6 Trials

Q&A: Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"

BN: Matthew Delmont, "Half American"

AB: Max Miller, "Tasting History"

BN: Luke Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics"

Q&A: Jean Twenge, "Generations"

BN: Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory"

Q&A: Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.

AB: Goodreads and "Review-Bombing"

BN: Alan Philps, "The Red Hotel"

Q&A: James Rosen, "Scalia"

BN: Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks.com

Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848

AW: Matt Lewis, "Filthy Rich Politicians"

AB: Cormac McCarthy & the Publishing Industry

BN: Katherine Clarke, "Billionaires' Row"

Q&A: Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"

AW: Judge Amul Thapar, "The People's Justice - Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him"

BN: Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow

Q&A: Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"

AW: Wesley Lowery, "American Whitelash - A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress"

AB: Artificial Intelligence and the Publishing Industry

BN: Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries"

Q&A: Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"

AW: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, "The Overlooked Americans"

BN: Martha Hodes, "My Hijacking"

Q&A: Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"

AB: Graphic Artist Jerry Craft on Book Bans

BN: C.W. Goodyear, "President Garfield"

Q&A: Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"

AW: Jason Del Rey, "Winner Sells All - Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets"

BN: William Hazelgrove, "The Last Charge of the Rough Rider"

Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"

AW: Rebecca Grant, "Birth - Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America"

AB: Brian O'Leary on Upgrading the Publishing Industry Supply Chain

BN: Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The World"

Q&A: Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice

Booknotes+: Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"

Q&A: Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise"

AW: David Bernhardt, "You Report to Me - Accountability for the Failing Administrative State"

AB: Former FBI Director Comey on Writing Crime Novels

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