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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
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