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Discussing the book "Under God: Religion and American Politics" with author Garry Wills
Nov. 27, 1990
Discussing the book "The Closest of Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic Account of U.S. - Cuban Relations Since 1957" with author and former U.S. Diplomat to Cuba, Wayne Smith
Apr. 20, 1987
Discussing the book "Terry: My Daughter's Life-and-Death Struggle with Alcoholism" with the author, former Senator George McGovern
Jun. 3, 1996
Discussing the book "Reunion: A Memoir" with the author Tom Hayden
Jun. 24, 1988
Discussing the book "Reagan's America: Innocents At Home" with author, journalist, and historian Garry Wills
Jan. 26, 1987
Discussing the book "Politics of Compassion and Transformation" with the author, former Chicago alderman and Professor of political science Dick Simpson
Jun. 21, 1989
Discussing the book "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II" with author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin
Oct. 5, 1994
Discussing the book "Freedom's Champion - Elijah Lovejoy" with the author, former Illinois Senator Paul Simon
Dec. 15, 1997
Discussing the book "Fire On The Prairie: Chicago's Harold Washington and the Politics of Race" with Gary Rivlin
Mar. 26, 1992
Discussing the book "Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors" with Herbert Mitgang
Mar. 10, 1989
Discussing the book "Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma" with the author Professor Charles V. Hamilton
Apr. 10, 1991
Professor Charles V. Hamilton
Discussing the book " Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma" with the author Professor Charles V. Hamilton
Feb. 6, 1992
Professor Charles V. Hamilton
Discussing the article "All the Congressmen's Men: How Capitol Hill Controls the Press" with writer Walter Karp
Jun. 29, 1989
Discussing reductions in U.S. military spending with authors and activists Admiral Eugene Carroll (U.S. retired) and Lawrence Korb
Jul. 28, 1995
Discussing police stress with members of the Police Assistance Center in Oak Brook, Illinois; Dr. Clifton Reed, Rory Gilbert, and Jerry Bolger
Jun. 27, 1989
Dr. Clifton Reed

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