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  • Discussing The Hammonds of Redcliffe, with Carol Bleser

    Dec. 2, 1981

    After discovering the family letters of James Henry Hammond in the archives of a South Carolina library, Carol Bleser set about telling a rather troubling saga - of slavery, sexual assault, and hypocrisy in the South, before and after the Civil War.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 

  • Discussing the development of the Southern School, Chicago's only alternative for students kicked out of the public schools, with founder and educator Patrick Zimmerman

    Oct. 20, 1976
  • Discussing the books "Shielding the Flame: An Intimate Conversation with Dr. Marek Edelman, the Last Surviving Leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising," by Hanna Krall, and "Letters From Prison and Other Essays," by Adam Michnik

    Sep. 16, 1986
  • Discussing the books "Dream State: The New Scottish Poets" and "Second Cities" with Donny O'Rourke

    Jan. 24, 1995
  • Discussing the book, "If Men Were Angels," and interviewing the author Milton Mayer

    1970
  • Discussing the book, "How Children Fail," and interviewing the author John Holt ; part 2

    1970

    Educator John Caldwell Holt discusses his book "How Children Fail," part 2. This is a continuation of the conversation from "1993414-4-1."

  • Discussing the book, "How Children Fail," and interviewing the author John Holt ; part 1

    1970

    Educator John Caldwell Holt discusses his book, "How Children Fail," part 1.

  • Helen and Scott Nearing

    Discussing the book, "Continuing the Good Life: Half a Century of Homesteading," with the authors, Scott and Helen Nearing

    Apr. 22, 1979

    Scott and Helen Nearing, advocates of simple living, discuss their book "Continuing the good life: half a century of homesteading" and the simple lifestyle they lead. Includes excerpt from previous interview with Scott and Helen Nearing.

  • Discussing the book "Understanding Health Care Reform" with the author, Yale University Professor of Public Policy Management and Political Science Theodore Marmor

    Jan. 6, 1995
  • Discussing the book "The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America From a Small School in Harlem" (published by Beacon Press) with the author and educator Deborah Meier. Program also includes excerpts from WFMT recordings of "Joy Street, Volume 2," and "D

    Apr. 27, 1995
  • Discussing the book "The Coming White Minority: California's Eruptions and America's Future" professor Dale Maharidge.

    Apr. 16, 1997
  • Discussing the book "The Character Factory: Baden-Powell and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement" with the author, Columbia College Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Michael Rosenthal

    Oct. 27, 1986
  • Discussing the book "The American inquisition: justice and injustice in the cold war" with the author Stanley Kutler

    Dec. 16, 1982

    Discussing the book "The American inquisition: justice and injustice in the cold war" with the author Stanley Kutler.

  • Discussing the book "Shattered Applause: The Lives of Eva Le Gallienne" with the author, educator and theater historian Robert A. Schanke

    Feb. 3, 1993
  • Cornel West

    Discussing the book "Race Matters" with the author, Princeton University Professor of African American studies, Cornel West

    May. 5, 1993
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