Connor Cruise O'Brien, Irish politician, writer, historian and academic scholar, discusses politics and the book "Writers and Politics: Essays and Criticisms".

Discussing the book, "Jerry Brown: The Man on the White Horse," and interviewing the author J. D. Lorenz.

David Halberstam, writer and historian, talks about his book, "The Fifties." The conversation includes Brown v. Board of Education, atomic weapons, the Cold War, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, consumerism, birth control, suburbs, television and the start of the counterculture. Halberstam reads several passages from his book.

In his book, Make-Believe Presidents: Illusions of Power from McKinley to Carter, the American journalist Nicholas von Hoffman examines which presidents had power and which did not.*Please note: some sections have been edited out from the original recording due to copyright considerations