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Politics
In Depth: The Books by Barack Obama and John McCain
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Author: Leonard Susskind
After Words: Jane Mayer, author of "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals" interviewed by Dana Priest
Public Lives
Stella Rimington "Illegal Action"
Author: Stella Rimington
Public Lives
Thanks for Listening: High Adventures in Journalism and Diplomacy
Author: Patricia Gates Lynch
Public Lives
A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl
Author: Mariane Pearl
Public Lives
Dark Genius: The Influential Career of Legendary Political Operative and Fox News Founder Roger Ailes
Author: Kerwin Swint
A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
Author: Stephen Kinzer
History
Queen of the Oil Club: The Intrepid Wanda Jablonski and the Power of Information
Author: Anna Rubino
History
Washington's War: The American War of Independence to the Iraqi Insurgency
Author: Michael Rose
History
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
Author: Tony Horwitz
Politics
The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties
Author: Judith Nies
Big Man on Campus: A University President Speaks Out on Higher Education
Author: Stephen Joel Trachtenberg
Julia Keller "Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel"
Author: Julia Keller
Exploring Our Solar System
Author: Sally Ride
An Easy Out: Corporate America's Addiction to Outsourcing
Author: Jack Buffington
The Much Too Promised Land: America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
Author: Aaron David Miller
Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Author: Diane MacEachern
Public Lives
Ida: A Sword Against Lions
Author: Paula Giddings
Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)
Author: Jared Bernstein
Politics
The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
Author: Gene Healy
Politics
Pure Goldwater
Author: Barry Goldwater, Jr. and John Dean
History
2008 Roosevelt Reading Festival: Joseph Persico author of "Franklin & Lucy: President Roosevelt, Mrs. Rutherford, and the Other Remarkable Women in His Life"
Author: Joseph Persico
The Right Words: Great Republican Speeches That Shaped History
Author: Wynton Hall
The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land
Author: Donna Rosenthal
History
Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic
Author: Stuart Leibiger
True Blue: To Protect and Serve
Author: Randy Sutton
Politics
2008 Harlem Book Fair: State of Civil Rights
Authors: Keli Goff; Edgar Ridley; Anthony Samad
 
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   Politics
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win
Author: Shelby Steele

 
   A Life Decoded: My Genome, My Life
Author: J. Craig Venter

 
   History
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom
Author: David Blight

 
   History
After Fidel: The Inside Story of Castro’s Regime and Cuba’s Next Leader
Author: Brian Latell

 
   After Words: Ladies of Liberty

 
   After Words: Carl Cannon co-author of "Reagan's Disciple: George W. Bush's Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy" interviewed by Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News

 
   After Words: Dee Dee Myers author of "Why Women Should Rule The World" interviewed by Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary

 
   Politics
Allen Raymond, "How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative" on Washington Journal
Author: Allen Raymond

 
   History
America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, The Race to the Pole, The Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation
Author: Jim Rasenberger

 
   American Power After the Berlin Wall
Author: Thomas Henriksen

 
   Politics
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
Author: Willie Brown

 
   Politics
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law
Author: Nancy Polikoff

 
   History
Boone: A Biography
Author: Robert Morgan

 
   Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Author: John Dean

 
   Politics
Campaign Boot Camp: Basic Training for Future Leaders
Author: Christine Pelosi

 
   Chance or Purpose: Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith
Author: Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

 
   History
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Author: Pope Brock

 
   Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
Author: Samantha Power

 
   Politics
Come to Think of It: Notes on the Turn of the Millennium
Author: Daniel Schorr

 
   Cracking the Code: How to Win Hearts, Change Minds, and Restore America's Original Vision
Author: Thom Hartmann

 
   Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (Or Almost All) of It Back
Author: Frank Schaeffer

 
   Politics
David Boren on the Washington Journal
Author: David Boren

 
   History
Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932
Author: Donald Ritchie

 
   Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Author: Jorge Castaneda

 
   Politics
FairTax: The Truth: Answering the Critics
Authors: Neal Boortz; Rep. John Linder

 
   Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Author: Jessica Valenti

 
   Public Lives
Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Author: Rajmohan Gandhi

 
   Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Author: Sudhir Venkatesh

 
   Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs after 9/11
Author: Jack Shaheen

 
   Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Author: Jeffrey Ogbar

 
   I Don't Believe in Atheists
Author: Chris Hedges

 
   Politics
In the Ring: The Trials of a Washington Lawyer