First broadcast
(with link to
transcript / video) |
Author |
Book |
Subject matter |
January 5, 1992 |
Charles Hamilton |
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
January 12, 1992 |
August Heckscher |
Woodrow Wilson: A Biography |
Woodrow Wilson |
January 26, 1992 |
Frederick Downs |
No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam |
The Vietnam War |
February 2, 1992 |
Robert Cwiklik |
House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington |
Peter Hoagland; The U.S. House of Representatives |
February 9, 1992 |
Francis Fukuyama |
The End of History and the Last Man |
Liberal democracy; Sociocultural evolution |
February 16, 1992 |
Al Gore |
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit |
Ecology; Global Warming |
February 23, 1992 and March 1, 1992 |
Richard Nixon |
Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World |
Foreign Policy of the United States |
March 8, 1992 |
Robert Massie |
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War |
HMS Dreadnought; Origins of World War I |
March 22, 1992 |
Linda Chavez |
Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation |
History of Hispanic and Latino Americans |
March 29, 1992 |
Nan Robertson |
The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times |
The New York Times |
April 12, 1992 |
Orlando Patterson |
Freedom in the Making of Western Culture |
Political freedom |
April 19, 1992 |
Paul Hollander |
Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 |
Anti-Americanism |
April 26, 1992 |
Tinsley Yarbrough |
John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court |
John Marshall Harlan II |
May 3, 1992 |
Earl Black and Merle Black |
The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected |
Southern strategy |
May 5, 1992 |
Robert Remini |
Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union |
Henry Clay |
May 10, 1992 |
David Moore |
The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America |
Category:Opinion polling in the United States |
May 17, 1992 |
Robert Bartley |
The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again |
Category:1980s economic history |
May 31, 1992 |
Lester Thurow |
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America |
Economy of Europe; Economy of Japan; Economy of the United States; Japan–United States relations |
June 7, 1992 |
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. |
The Conservative Crack-Up |
Conservatism in the United States |
June 14, 1992 |
William Lee Miller |
The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding |
James Madison |
June 21, 1992 |
John Jackley |
Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress |
The U.S. House of Representatives |
June 28, 1992 |
David Savage |
Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court |
The Rehnquist Court; List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court |
July 5, 1992 |
William Rehnquist |
Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson |
Impeachment in the United States; Samuel Chase; Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
July 12, 1992 |
Jeffrey Bell |
Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality |
Populism and Elitism |
July 19, 1992 |
David McCullough |
Truman |
Harry Truman |
July 26, 1992 |
Richard Ben Cramer |
What It Takes: The Way to the White House |
United States presidential election, 1988 |
August 2, 1992 |
Gilbert Fite |
Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia |
Richard Russell, Jr. |
August 9, 1992 |
Robert Donovan and Ray Scherer |
Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Life |
Television news in the United States |
August 16, 1992 |
Martin Anderson |
Impostors in the Temple |
Higher education in the United States |
August 23, 1992 |
Mickey Kaus |
The End of Equality |
Social equality |
August 30, 1992 |
Neil Postman |
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology |
Technology and society |
September 6, 1992 |
Terry Eastland |
Energy in the Executive: The Case for a Strong Presidency |
President of the United States |
September 13, 1992 |
James Billington |
Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope |
Russia |
September 20, 1992 |
Sen. Paul Simon |
Advice and Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles |
Clarence Thomas; Robert Bork |
September 27, 1992 |
Walter Isaacson |
Kissinger: A Biography |
Henry Kissinger |
October 18, 1992 |
George Will |
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy |
The U.S. Congress; Term limits in the United States |
October 25, 1992 |
Susan Faludi |
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women |
Feminism in the United States |
November 8, 1992 |
Barbara Hinkley and Paul Brace |
Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents |
Category:Opinion polling in the United States |
November 15, 1992 |
Derrick Bell |
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism |
Racism in the United States |
November 22, 1992 |
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf |
It Doesn't Take a Hero |
Memoir/Autobiography; United States Army; Gulf War |
November 29, 1992 |
Charles Sykes |
A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character |
Victim playing |
December 6, 1992 |
Daniel Boorstin |
The Creators |
Cultural history; Creativity; History of the concept of creativity |
December 13, 1992 |
Brian Kelly |
Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't Stop |
Pork barrel |
December 20, 1992 |
Eric Alterman |
Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics |
Political journalism; Pundits |
December 27, 1992 |
Michael Medved |
Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values |
Cinema of the United States; Popular culture; Traditional values |