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Discussing the book "Our War: What We Did in Vietnam And What It Did to Us" with the author, journalist David Harris
Oct. 1, 1996
Discussing the book "One Sunny Day: A Child's Memory of Hiroshima" with the author Hideko Tamura Snider
Oct. 21, 1997
Discussing the book "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency" with author, investigative reporter Mark Hertsgaard
Nov. 14, 1988
Discussing the book "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency" with the author, investigative reporter Mark Hertsgaard
May. 8, 1989
Discussing the book "Observing the Nixon Years: 'Notes and Comment' from the New Yorker on the Vietnam War and the Watergate Crisis, 1969-1975" with Jonathan Schell
May. 18, 1989
Discussing the book "Nuclear Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy" with the author, investigative reporter Mark Hertsgaard
May. 31, 1983
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 "New York in the Fifties" with the author, journalist Dan Wakefield
Discussing the book "New Homeless and Old: Community and the Skid Row Hotel" with author and University of Illinois at Chicago Professor Charles Hoch
Feb. 19, 1990
Discussing the book "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget: A Collection of Quotations By People of Color" with Dorothy Winbush Riley
Aug. 13, 1993
Discussing the book "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" with journalist and author Molly Ivins
Oct. 25, 1991
Discussing the book "Maus: Survivor's Tale" with the artist and author Art Spiegelman
Oct. 1, 1986
Discussing the book "Machine Dreams" with Jayne Anne Phillips
Jul. 2, 1984
Discussing the book "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America" with author, journalist, and historian Garry Wills
Jun. 26, 1992
*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations 
Discussing the book "Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi, 1964--the Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America" with Nicolaus Mills
Feb. 19, 1993
Program includes an excerpt of a reading of "This Little Light of Mine" by Kay Mills.

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