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General Interest

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Alex Vernon — Peace is a Shy Thing, The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien

Janet Singer Applefield — Becoming Janet, Finding Myself in the Holocaust

Joan Nathan—My Life in Recipes, Food, Family, and Memories

Rossana D'Antonio—26 Seconds: Grief and Blame in the Aftermath of Losing My Brother in a Plane Crash

Judith Viorst—Making the Best with What’s Left

Charles Duhigg—Supercommunicators, How To Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Sandy Greenberg—Hello Darkness, My Old Friend, How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision For Life

Jane Ferguson—No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir

Kirsten Powers—Saving Grace: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts

Mary Louise Kelly—It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs

Larry Weber—The New Age of Reason, Harnessing the Power of Tech for Good

Patricia Broderick—Reinventing the Wheel: Hard Roads Can Lead to Beautiful Places

Michael Finkel—The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime and a Dangerous Obsession

David Gergen—Hearts Touched with Fire, How Great Leaders are Made

Derek Black—The Klansman’s Son: My Journey from White Nationalism to Antiracism

Rachel Slade—Making it in America, The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (and How It Got That Way)

Martha McPhee—Omega Farm

Katie Couric--Going There

Jane Fox—The Hungry Mother: Recipes for Recovery and Life in the Kitchen

Oliver Franklin-Wallis—Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Graham Moore—The Wealth of Shadows, Money is a Dangerous Weapon

Sammi Katz—Cocktails in Color: A Spirited Guide to the Art and Joy of Drinkmaking

Mehdi Hasan—Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

Carl Bernstein—Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom, Part I and Part II

Nina Totenberg—Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Molly Ball—Pelosi

Michael Ian Black—A Better Man, A Mostly Serious Letter to my Son

Daisy Pitkin—On the Line, A Story of Class, Solidarity, and Two Women’s Epic Fight to Build a Union

Katy Tur—Rough Draft

Allison Moorer—I Dreamed He Talks to Me, A Memoir of Listening How to Listen

Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell—Her Honor, My Life on the Bench… What’s Broken and How to Change It

Michael Tubbs—The Deeper the Roots, A Memoir of Hope and Home

Beatriz Williams—Our Woman in Moscow

Jake Tapper—The Devil May Dance

Anna Sale—Let’s Talk About Hard Things

Bakari Sellers—My Vanishing Country: A Memoir

Mark Salter—The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain

Sports

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Riding For America | Nancy Hays

Jane Leavy | Make Me Commissioner | Part 1

Jane Leavy | Make Me Commissioner | Part 2

DeMaurice Smith | Turf Wars | Part 1

DeMaurice Smith | Turf Wars | Part 2

Homestand, Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America | Will Bardenwerper

Locker Room Talk | Melissa Ludtke

The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas Fuller

A Conversation with Dave Kindred, Author, 'My Home Team: A Sportswriter’s Life and the Redemptive Power of Small-Town Girls Basketball'

A Conversation with Sally Jenkins, Author, 'The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life'

A Conversation with Andrea Williams, Author, ‘Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues’ & Special Guest, Bob Kendrick, President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

A Conversation with Luke Epplin, Author, ‘Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series that Changed Baseball’

Music and the Arts

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Reviving the Artist Who Fought Hitler | Irvin Ungar and Guest Co-host Philip Eliasoph

Ozzy and Me | Stephen Rea and Guest Co-host Randy Blythe

Revisiting A Conversation with Max Weinberg, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer

Revisiting: Stevie Van Zandt | Unrequited Infatuations’

First Lady of Laughs | Grace Kessler Overbeke

Randy Blythe | Just Beyond The Light, Making Peace with the Wars Inside our Head

Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital | David Browne

An Ideal For Living — A Celebration of the EP (Extended Play) BOOK – by Corey du Browa & Friends‍ ‍

Lydia Abarca Mitchell, One of The Swans of Harlem‍ ‍

The Swans of Harlem | Karen Valby‍ ‍

A Conversation with the writers and directors of the film Airplane! on their new book, Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story Of Airplane!‍ ‍

Remembering Gary Oelze: A Conversation with Stephen Moore, Co-Author, All Roads Lead to the Birchmere.

A Conversation with Patrick Bringley, Author, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me. With Special Guest Professor Philip Eliasoph

A Conversation with Hugh Eakin, Author, ‘Picasso’s War; How Modern Art Came to America.’ With Special Guest Professor Philip Eliasoph

A Conversation with Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm, Authors, ‘Art and Crime, The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World’ with Special Guest Professor Philip Eliasoph

A Conversation with Stevie Van Zandt, Author, ‘Unrequited Infatuations’

Season One Finale: A Conversation with Max Weinberg, Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame drummer from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band

A Conversation with Ron Brownstein, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Senior Political Analyst for CNN & Author of “Rock Me on the Water”

Current Events

Update on the Case for Universal Voting with E.J. Dionne, Jr. and Miles Rapoport

Revisiting John Dean’s Take on Trump’s Authoritarian Grip

A Conversation with Barbara McQuade, author, Attack from Within How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

A Conversation with Professor Heather Cox Richardson, Author, 'Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America'

A Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin, Author, Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

A Conversation with Joan Biskupic, Author, 'Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and its Historic Consequences'

A Conversation with Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian, Authors, 'Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump', Part I

A Conversation with Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian, and Congress' Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump, Part II

A Conversation with Cody Keenan, Author, ‘Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America’

A Conversation with EJ Dionne and Miles Rapoport, Authors, ‘Democracy, The Case for Universal Voting’

A Conversation with Brian Karem, Author, FREE THE PRESS: THE DEATH OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM AND HOW TO REVIVE IT

A Conversation with Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, Authors, ‘I Alone Can Fix It, Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year’

PART I – A Conversation with Brian Stelter on His Best-Seller, ‘HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth’

PART II – A Conversation with Brian Stelter on His Best-Seller, ‘HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth’

Jim Acosta, Guest –That Said with Michael Zeldin

A Conversation with John Dean, author, "Authoritarian Nightmare"

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Chris Matthews | Lessons from Bobby, Ten Reasons Robert F. Kennedy Still Matters

Revisiting | Cody Keenan | Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

Mother Emanuel, Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church | Kevin Sack

Murder the Truth | David Enrich

Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America by John Della Volpe

Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

Law

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Elliot Williams | Five Bullets

Alan Dershowitz—The Preventive State

Jeffrey Toobin—The Pardon: Nixon, Ford and the Politics of Presidential Mercy

Ronald K. L. Collins | Tragedy on Trial, The Story of the Infamous Emmett Till Murder Trial

Religion

A Conversation with Dara Horn, Author, ‘People Love Dead Jews, Reports from a Haunted Present’

A Conversation with Michael Ignatieff, Author, ‘On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times’

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Becoming Janet, Finding Myself In The Holocaust | Janet Singer Applefield

Gareth Gore | Opus, The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy in the Catholic Church

Miracles and Wonder, The Historical Mystery of Jesus by Elaine Pagels

Don Lemon | I Once Was Lost, My Search for God in America

A Conversation with Julian Zelizer, Author, ‘Abraham Joshua Heschel, A Life of Radical Amazement’

History

Robert Edsel | Remember Us, American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and a Forever Promise Forged in World War II

Mary Annette Pember | Medicine River, A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

Daniel James Brown | Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Skies of Thunder | Caroline Alexander

Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler

Dana Bash | America’s Deadliest Election the Cautionary Tale of the Most Violent Election in American History

Small Acts of Courage by Ali Velshi

The Highest Calling, Conversations on the American Presidency by David Rubenstein

Revisiting Political Convention Coverage with Heather Hendershot, Author, When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America

"The Bishop and the Butterfly" by Michael Wolraich

"The Situation Room" by George Stephanopoulos with Lisa Dickey

A Conversation with conversation with Robin Bernstein, author, Freeman’s Challenge, The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit

Revisiting a Conversation with Jeff Nussbaum, Author, ‘Undelivered: The Never-heard Speeches that would have Rewritten History’

A Conversation with Jim Sciutto, Author, 'The Return of Great Powers, Russia, China, and The Next World War'

A Conversation with Timothy Ryback, Author, Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power

A Conversation with Jennet Conant, Author, 'Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins'

A Conversation with Fareed Zakaria, Author, 'Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present'

A Conversation with Saket Soni, Author, ‘The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America’

A Conversation with Jeffrey Rosen, Author, 'The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America'

A Conversation with Janet Wallach, Author, ‘Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy’

A Conversation with Steven Ujifusa, Author, ‘The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and The Race to Save Russia’s Jews on the Eve of World War I’

A Conversation with Fergus Bordewich, Author, 'Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction'

Doug Melville's Journey from 'Invisible Generals' to Leading DEI Initiatives

A Conversation with Professor Ed Ayers, Author, ‘American Visions, The United States, 1800-1860’

A Conversation with Scott Eyman, Author, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America, When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided"

A Conversation with Prof. Laurel Leff, Author, 'Well Worth Saving: American Universities’ Life-and-Death Decisions of Refugees from Nazi Europe'

A Conversation with Heather Hendershot, Author, 'When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America'

A Conversation with Steve Drummond, Author, 'The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two'

A Conversation with Alexander Rose, Author, The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

A Conversation with Ann Hagedorn, Author, 'Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away'

A Conversation with Dr. Catherine Musemeche, Author, ‘Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II’

A Conversation with Adam Hochschild, Author, ‘American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis’

A Conversation with Jeff Nussbaum, Author, ‘Undelivered: The Never-heard Speeches that would have Rewritten History’

A Conversation with A.J. Baime, Author, ‘Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul’

A Conversation with A.J. Baime, Author, ‘White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret’

A Conversation with Garrett M. Graff, Author, ‘Watergate: A New History’

A Conversation with Jeffrey Veidlinger, Author, ‘The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust’

A Conversation with Matti Friedman, Author, ‘Who By Fire, Leonard Cohen in the Sinai’

A Conversation with Erin L. Thompson, Author, ‘Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments’

A Conversation with John Avlon, Author, ‘Lincoln and the Fight for Peace’

A Conversation with David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History at Yale University

A Conversation with Dan Abrams Author, ‘Kennedy’s Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby’

A Conversation with Julian Zelizer, Author, ‘Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, The Fall of a Speaker, And the Rise of the New Republican Party’

A Conversation with Daniel James Brown, Author, ‘Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II’

A Conversation with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Author, ‘The Daughters of Kobani’

A Conversation with Peter Baker & Susan Glasser – Authors of “The Man Who Ran Washington: the Life and Times of James Baker III”

A Conversation with Professor Michael Gerhardt, Author of “Lincoln’s Mentors: The Education of a Leader”

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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz | Anne Sebba

Lynne Olson | The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück

Nina Willner | The Boys in the Light

The Traitor's Circle | Jonathan Freedland

Andrew Porwancher | American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt & The Jews

Jeffrey Rosen | The Pursuit of Liberty

Melting Point

Becky Aikman | Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II

Health

Breast Cancer Awareness Month Special Edition with Ali Rogin and Dr. Felice Gersh

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Dr. Sanjay Gupta | It Doesn't Have to Hurt

National Cancer Survivors Day | Ali Rogin, author of Beat Breast Cancer Like A Boss, and Dr. Felice Gersh

Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life | Shigehiro Oishi, PhD

A Conversation with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Author, 'Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at any Age'

A Conversation with CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Author, ‘World War C: Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One

Civil Rights/African American Studies

A Conversation with Paul Kix, Author, You Have to be Prepared to Die Before you can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham that Changed America

A Conversation with Mark Whitaker, Author, Saying It Loud: 1966-The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement

A Conversation with Hawa Allan Author, ‘Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship’

A Conversation with Anna Malaika Tubbs, Author, ‘The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation’

A Conversation with Harvard Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Author, ‘Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality’

A Conversation with Dante Stewart, Author, ‘Shouting In The Fire, An American Epistle’

A Conversation with Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin, Author, ‘Read Until You Understand, The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature’

A Conversation with Professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Author, ‘Begin Again, James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own’

A Conversation with April Ryan, Author, ‘At Mama’s Knee, Mothers and Race in Black and White’

A Conversation with Don Lemon, CNN Anchor, on His New Book, ‘This Is The Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism’

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New Prize for These Eyes, The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement | Juan Williams

Savings and Trust the Rise and Betrayal of the Freedmen's Bank | Professor Justene Hill Edwards

Wright Thompson | The Barn

A Conversation with Eddie Glaude, Jr., author, We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking

A Conversation with Jefferson Cowie, Author, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

A Conversation with Rachel Louise Martin, PhD, Author, 'A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation'

Conversations

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Jennifer Ho, President of the Association for Asian American Studies

Muriel Fox, Co-Founder of the National Organization For Women (NOW)

Jason Miller—Communications Strategist and Former Trump Spokesman on the 2020 Presidential Election, the Big Lie, and the Events of January 6th, Part I and Part II

Eddie Glaude, Jr. Discusses America at a Crossroads

Douglas Brinkley on Trump, Biden, and the State of America Today

Heather Cox Richardson—Reflecting on Democracy

Michael Steele—Reflections on America Today

Chuck Rosenberg (MSNBC)—The Trump Impeachment Trial: The Case for and Against Conviction

Joe Lockhart (Bill Clinton Press Sec)—Impeach, Indict, Heal? A Discussion of Post-Trump Washington

Congressman Eric Swalwell & Professor Michael J. Gerhardt—Analyzing Trump’s Second Impeachment

Dan Balz (WAPO)—Observations on America