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Discussing the book "Maus: Survivor's Tale" with the artist and author Art Spiegelman
Oct. 1, 1986
Discussing the book "Marketplace Medicine: The Rise of the For-Profit Hospital Chains" with author, journalist David Lindorff
Jan. 2, 1992
Discussing the book "Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography" with author, historian and photographer Vicki Goldberg
Jul. 9, 1986
Discussing the book "Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright" with author and architectural preservationist Brendan Gill
Dec. 3, 1987
Discussing the book "Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art" with the author and former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas Hoving
Jan. 28, 1993
Discussing the book "Making Miracles Happen" with Gregory White Smith
Sep. 2, 1997
Discussing the book "Making History" with Carolyn See
Oct. 9, 1991
Discussing the book "Madness and the Criminal Law" with Norval Morris
May. 3, 1983
Discussing the book "Machine Dreams" with Jayne Anne Phillips
Jul. 2, 1984
Discussing the book "Love Life: Stories" with the author Bobbie Ann Mason
Mar. 29, 1989
Discussing the book "Love and Empire" with the author Erik Orsenna
1980
Discussing the book "Louis Armstrong, An American Genius" with biographer and author James Lincoln Collier
Oct. 28, 1983
Discussing the book "Long Road Home" with novelist Ron Taylor
Jun. 22, 1989
Discussing the book "Living Inside Our Hope : A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement" with the author, historian Staughton Lynd
Oct. 24, 1997
Discussing the book "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America" with author, journalist, and historian Garry Wills
Jun. 26, 1992
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