Podcasts
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James Gleick's bestselling book, Chaos: Making a New Science, explained chaos theory in layman's terms by focusing on the stories of those scientists who were pioneers in the field and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer… more
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• Recorded Feb 22, 2011Born in Tipperary, Frank Delaney enjoyed a long and prominent career in broadcasting before becoming a full-time writer. The author of more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, Delaney is writing a series of historical novels that explore the… more
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With his New York Times bestselling biography The Bridge, David Remnick offers a personal and historical context for Barack Obama's extraordinary political career. Remnick's exhaustive research illuminates the President's critical formative… more
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• Recorded Feb 15, 2011Global economist Dambisa Moyo is the author of the controversial and critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa , which details the inefficacy of development aid for… more
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Michael Scheuer—the former chief of the bin Laden unit at the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center—is the bestselling author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terrorism and Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam,… more
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• Recorded Feb 8, 2011When Andrew Johnson succeeded Abraham Lincoln to the presidency of the United States, he faced a nearly impossible task: to reconcile the nation after the Civil War while working with a recalcitrant Congress controlled by the Radical Republicans.… more
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Published in 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston's first book, The Woman Warrior, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and made her a literary celebrity at age 36. A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the… more
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• Recorded Feb 1, 2011An accomplished food historian and critically acclaimed cookbook author, Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life documenting the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. Her books include Iron Pots & Wooden Spoons: Africa’s Gifts to New… more
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Brad Meltzer is the no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Fate, The Tenth Justice, The Millionaires , and The Zero Game. He is also a co-creator of the television show, Jack & Bobby ; the Eisner Award-winning author of the… more
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• Recorded Jan 20, 2011The former Mexican Ambassador to France, Carlos Fuentes is the author of more than 20 books, including Happy Families, The Eagle’s Throne, The Death of Artemio Cruz, and The Old Gringo . He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the… more
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The New York Times Book Review called Edmund Morris's biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, “one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment.” Winner of the Pulitzer… more
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Writer and director Nora Ephron is a three-time Academy Award-nominee, for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle; her latest film, Julie and Julia (based on Julie Powell's New York Times bestseller and Julia Child's memoir My… more
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• Recorded Dec 9, 2010A food editor and columnist for more than a decade at the New York Times, Amanda Hesser is the award-winning author of The Cook and the Gardener and Cooking for Mr. Latte, a collection of her "Food Diary" columns for New York Times Magazine.… more
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"A moving portrait of the artist as a young woman," according to the Los Angeles Times, Just Kids is Patti Smith's memoir of her friendship and collaboration with fellow artist Robert Mapplethorpe in gritty and glamorous New York City during the… more
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• Recorded Dec 7, 2010Winner of the 1995 Presidential Medal of Freedom, Philadelphia-born lawyer William T. Coleman was the first black American to serve as a clerk for the Supreme Court, and the first to join a major American law firm. In a career spanning nearly 70… more
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• Recorded Dec 2, 2010Director of the Institute for Public Service at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communication, David Eisenhower is the grandson of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower and the namesake of presidential retreat Camp David. His… more
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• Recorded Nov 30, 2010The DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, Eric Foner is a noted scholar of the Civil War and Reconstruction period of U.S. history. He is the author of several books including The Story of American Freedom, Who Owns… more
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Salman Rushdie's acclaimed novels are known for their witty examinations of an ever-changing sociopolitical landscape. He is the author of 10 books, including Midnight's Children --winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 and the "Booker of Bookers"… more
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• Recorded Nov 18, 2010James K. Galbraith is a professor of economics and the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr., Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. A regular contributor to The Nation and… more
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• Recorded Nov 16, 2010Born in Havana in 1950, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 unaccompanied children airlifted out of Cuba by Operation Pedro Pan in the early 1960s. Today, he is the Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University and author of the… more
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