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Discussing the book, "The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power," and interviewing the author Garry Wills.
Discussing the book, "Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence," and interviewing the author Garry Wills.
Discussing the book "Cincinnatus: George Washington and the enlightenment" with the author-journalist Garry Wills.
Discussing the book, "A long time passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation," with the author Myra MacPherson.
Discussing the book "With enough shovels: Reagan, Bush and nuclear war " with the journalist-author Robert Scheer.
Discussing the book "Starving in the shadow of plenty" with the author Loretta Schwartz-Nobel.
Discussing the book "Illusion of peace" with the author Tad Szulc.
David Halberstam discusses his book "The Powers That Be", published in 1979. The book explores transparency and information regarding press organizations such as CBS, Time, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.
Members of John F. Kennedy's administration are featured in David Halberstam's book, "The Best and the Brightest". Halberstam points out the title of his book is actually irony because the men were not the best or the brightest but rather as a result of their bad decisions, America got tangled up in the Vietnam War.