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Discussing the book "Freedom's Champion - Elijah Lovejoy" with the author, former Illinois Senator Paul Simon
Dec. 15, 1997
Discussing the book "Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich" with Alison Owings
Jun. 5, 1995
Discussing the book "For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-95," a collection of songs and poems with folksinger and songwriter Bucky Halker
Jun. 14, 1991
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 "Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s" with the author Kurt Vonnegut
Jun. 14, 1991
Discussing the book "Far From Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns" with journalist and author Ron Powers
Jul. 11, 1991
Discussing the book "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965" with Juan Williams
Jan. 23, 1987
Discussing the book "Eugene V. Debs: citizen and socialist" with the author Nick Salvatore
May. 24, 1983
Nick Salvatore discusses Eugene V. Debs' life.
Discussing the book "Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyle's World War II Dispatches" with David Nichols
Sep. 30, 1986
Discussing the book "Ernie's America: The Best of Ernie Pyle's 1930's Travel Dispatches" with David Nichols
Sep. 14, 1989
Discussing the book "Echoes of Revolt: The Masses, 1911-1917"with William O'Neill.
Jan. 11, 1990
Discussing the book "Echo House" with the author Ward Just
May. 7, 1997
Discussing the book "Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life" (published by Farrar Straus Giroux) with the author, non-fiction writer Milton Meltzer.
Aug. 8, 1978
Discussing the book "Democracy in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago" with Jim Miller
Jun. 22, 1987
Discussing the book "The Rolling Stone: illustrated history of rock and roll" with editor Jim Miller.
Discussing the book "Dangerous Dossiers: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors" with Herbert Mitgang
Mar. 10, 1989

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