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Discussing the book "Saigon, Illinois" with author Paul Hoover
Jan. 25, 1989
Discussing the book "Rusted Dreams: Hard Times in the Steel Community" with one of the book's authors, Roberta Lynch
Mar. 19, 1987
*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 
Discussing the book "Russia and the Russians: Inside the Closed Society" with Brendan Klose and Kevin Klose
Jun. 7, 1984
Discussing the book "Reunion: A Memoir" with the author Tom Hayden
Jun. 24, 1988
Discussing the book "Repairing America: An Account of the Movement for Japanese-American Redress" with author William Hohri and Yuriko Hohri
Dec. 15, 1988
Discussing the book "Remembering Denny" with the author, humorist and poet Calvin Trillin
May. 4, 1993
Discussing the book "Reagan's America: Innocents At Home" with author, journalist, and historian Garry Wills
Jan. 26, 1987
Discussing the book "Rain of Gold" with the author, novelist and short story writer Victor Villasenor
Nov. 16, 1992
Discussing the book "Professors, Politics, and Pop" with the author, historian Jon Wiener
Nov. 18, 1991
Discussing the book "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream" with the author, architect Robert A. M. Stern
Apr. 7, 1995
Discussing the book "Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s" with the author, journalist Nora Sayre
Oct. 11, 1996
Discussing the book "Poor Boy and a Long Way From Home" with the author, novelist and playwright Jim Sherburne
Sep. 18, 1984
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 "Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life" with Martha Nussbaum.
Feb. 16, 1996
Program includes an excerpt of a 1963 interview with Mary Parparis(T2180).
Discussing the book "Poems and Psalms," with the author, poet Paul Carroll
Nov. 19, 1990

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