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Discussing the book "Woody Guthrie: A Life," with Joe Klein
Nov. 17, 1980
Program includes an excerpt of an interview with Woody Guthrie.
Discussing the book "With All Disrespect: More Uncivil Liberties" with the author, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin
Apr. 19, 1985
Discussing the book "Willie and Dwike: An American Profile" with the author, journalist and editor William Zinsser
Aug. 2, 1984
Discussing the book "William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape" with author, art historian Peter Hales
Aug. 18, 1988
Discussing the book "Why Black People Tend to Shout: Cold Facts and Wry Views from a Black Man's World" with Ralph Wiley
Jun. 22, 1992
Discussing the book "Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age" with the author Rosemary Mahoney
Sep. 13, 1993
Discussing the book "Who Put The Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, lyricist" with the author Ernie Harburg
Nov. 9, 1993
Discussing the book "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor" with the author, sociologist William Julius Wilson
Oct. 3, 1996
Discussing the book "What About the Russians - and Nuclear War?" with Roger C. Molander
1980
Discussing the book "Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism" with the author, historian Peter Winn
Jul. 24, 1986
Discussing the book "We Gave Away A Fortune: Stories of People Who Have Devoted Themselves and Their Wealth to Peace, Justice, and the Environment" with Christopher Mogil and Anne Slepian along with Grace Ross, Charles Gray
Nov. 24, 1992
Discussing the book "Watch out for the foreign guests: China encounters the west" with the author Orville Schell
Feb. 6, 1981
Discussing the book "Watch out for the foreign guests: China encounters the west" with the author Orville Schell.
Discussing the book "War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War" (published by Pantheon) with the author John Dower
Jul. 29, 1986
Discussing the book "War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War" (published by Pantheon) with the author John Dower.
Discussing the book "W.E.B. DuBois--Biography of a Race, 1868-1919" with the author, historian David Levering Lewis
Oct. 25, 1993
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

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