The most popular programs for the In Depth Tag http://www.c-spanvideo.org/browse?topic=88 en-US Copyright 2013, National Cable Satellite Corporation info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:08 GMT Alexander Cockburn was interviewed about his life, his career, and his body of writing. He responded to viewer telephone calls and electronic mail. Video was shown of Mr. Cockburn giving a tour of his rural home in Petrolia, California. He talked about his lifestyle and showed his old cars, artwork, outbuildings, and animals. Mr. Cockburn is a columnist for [The Nation] and co-editor of [CounterPunch], a political newsletter. His work has appeared in many publications, including the [Wall Street Journal], where he had a regular column from 1980 to 1990. Mr. Cockburn has authored or edited over a dozen books, including [Corruptions of Empire, The Golden Age Is In Us, Washington Babylon, Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, Imperial Crusades, The Politics of Anti-Semitism], and [A Dime's Worth of Difference]. His latest, written with [CounterPunch] co-editor Jeffrey St. Clair, is [End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/196500-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/196500-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author and radio talk show host Tammy Bruce was interviewed about her life, career, and writings. She discussed her self-identification as an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Bush progressive feminist. She also responded to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. Video clips from August 19, 2006, were shown of her radio show. At the age of 27, Ms. Bruce was the youngest person ever elected president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) and served from 1990-1996. She also served two years on the national board of directors. With the "Tammy Bruce Show" (1993-1998) on KFI-AM 640, she was the first openly gay women in the country to host a show on mainstream talk radio. Her editorials and commentaries on social issues have been published nationally and internationally in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and on television and radio programming. Ms. Bruce is also a Fox News Channel political analyst, and served on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's transition team. Ms. Bruce is the author of [The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds] (2001), [The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values] (2003) and [The New American Revolution: Using the Power of the Individual to Save Our Nation from Extremists] (2005). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/193300-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/193300-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Foote conducted a tour of his home. Then, sitting at the desk where he does all his writing, talked about his entire body of work, described his writing process, and responded to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. Mr. Foote's first novel, [Tournament], was published in 1949, followed quickly by three other works of fiction: [Follow Me Down] (1950), [Love in a Dry Season] (1951), and [Shiloh] (1952). The success of [Shiloh] prompted Random House publisher Bennett Cerf to ask Mr. Foote to write a short history of the U.S. Civil War to be published for the hundredth anniversary of the conflict. He worked on this three-volume history of the war for twenty years, finally completing it in 1974. The trilogy includes [Fort Sumter to Perryville], published in 1958, [Fredericksburg to Meridian], published in 1963, and finally [Red River to Appomattox], published in 1974. In 1977 Mr. Foote published [September, September], a novel about events in the south in 1957. In 1998, Jay Tolson edited and published [The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy], documenting Foote's sixty-year friendship with southern novelist Walker Percy through the letters they exchanged. Also in 1998, Shelby Foote wrote a 10,000 word introduction to a new Modern Library edition of Stephen Crane's [Red Badge of Courage], the 19th-century classic Civil War novel. Mr. Foote has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and a lecturer at the University of Virginia and Memphis State. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/165823-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/165823-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Michio Kaku talked about his life, career, and his work. He responded to telephones calls and electronic communications. A video clip was shown of Professor Kaku in his office in Manhattan at City College of New York talking about the process of publishing a book. He also showed the planetarium as he talked about teaching astronomy to students. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist and co-founder of the string field theory, a branch of the string theory. He has taught at the City College of New York for 25 years and currently holds the school's Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1968 with a B.S. in Physics and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1972. He is the host of two science radio shows and the Science Channel television series "Sci Fi Science." Michio Kaku is author of eight books, besides two text books: [Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe] (1995); [Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension] (1995); [Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century and Beyond] (1999); [Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time] (2005); [Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos] (2006); [Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel] (2008). His forthcoming book, [Physics of the Future: How Science Will Change Daily Life by 2100], is to be released in 2011. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295788-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295788-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges talked about his life and work and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A foreign correspondent with a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School, he discussed topics such as terrorism, religion, and politics. Chris Hedges is the author of nine books: [War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning] (2002 -- National Book Critics Circle finalist); [What Every Person Should Know About War] (2003); [Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America] (2005); [American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America] (2007); [I Don't Believe in Atheists] (2008): [Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians] (2008); [Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle] (2009); [The Death of the Liberal Class] (2010); and [The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress] (2011). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/303072-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/303072-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author, autism advocate, and animal scientist Temple Grandin talked about her life, career, and body of work. Topics included autism, how she thinks in pictures, and her work with animals. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Temple Grandin is an animal science professor at Colorado State University and a consultant and designer of livestock handling facilities. She was diagnosed as autistic in 1950. A video clip was shown of her talking to people as she signed books at the Tucson Festival of Books on March 14, 2009. Temple Grandin is the author of over eight books, including [Emergence: Labeled Autistic] with Margaret Scariano (1986), [Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism] (1995), [Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals] (1997), [Developing Talents: Careers for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism] with Kate Duffy (2004), [Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior] with Catherine Johnson (2005), [The Way I See It: A Personal Look at Autism & Asperger's] (2008), [Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding Livestock Behavior and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals] with Mark Dessing (2008), [Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals] (2009). Includes program ID 284911-4 http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/289706-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/289706-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University was interviewed about his life and work. He has written more than twenty books including [The Western Canon], [Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human], [How To Read and Why], [Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds], and his latest book, [Hamlet: Poem Unlimited]. A clip from Professor Bloom's appearance on [Booknotes] in 2000 was shown and an audio clip of critic Joseph Epstein. Professor Bloom responded to viewer telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/176255-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/176255-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Christopher Hitchens was interviewed about his life, his career, and his body of writing. Topics included his religious and political opinions. He responded to viewer telephone calls and electronic mail. Video from August 28, 2007, was shown of Christopher Hitchens in his apartment in Washington, D.C., showing his neighborhood and his library. He also talked about his writing habits. Mr. Hitchens is a contributing editor to [Vanity Fair] magazine and a visiting professor of liberal studies at The New School. He is the author of over a dozen books including, [The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice; No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family; Why Orwell Matters] and [God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/198800-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/198800-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Jonah Goldberg talked about his life, work, and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video clip was shown of Mr. Goldberg in his office at the American Enterprise Institute where he talked about his writing habits and showed his library. Jonah Goldberg is the author of [Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning] (2007) and editor of [Proud to be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation] (2010). Jonah Goldberg is the editor at large of [National Review Online] and a Pulitzer Prize-nominated columnist for the [Los Angeles Times]. The American Enterprise Institute visiting fellow is also a syndicated columnist carried by newspapers nationwide, including [USA Today] and the [Chicago Tribune]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/296418-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/296418-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author and columnist Mark Steyn talked about topics such as American culture, free speech, terrorism, the economy, and the worldwide demographic shift to Muslims. He responded to telephone calls and electronic commmunications. Mark Steyn is a regular guest host of Rush Limbaugh's radio show, a visiting fellow in journalism at Hillsdale College, and the author of nine books: [Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now] (1997); [The Face of the Tiger: And Other Tales from the New War] (2002); [From Head to Toe: An Anatomical Anthology] (2004); [America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It] (2006); [Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: Obituaries & Appreciations] (2006); [Mark Steyn's American Songbook] (2008); [A Song for the Season] (2008); [Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech and the Twilight of the West] (2009); A[fter America: Get Ready for Armageddon] (2011). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/303634-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/303634-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Political activist and filmmaker Michael Moore talked about his life and career. Video clips were shown from three of his films and his television show, "TV Nation." He also reacted to a video clip of his controversial March 23, 2003, Academy Award acceptance speech. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Michael Moore is the author of eight non-fiction books: [Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American] (1996); [Adventures in a TV Nation] (1998); [Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!] (2002); [Dude, Where's My Country?] (2003); [Will They Ever Trust Us Again?] (2004); [The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader] (2004); [Mike's Election Guide 2008]; [Here Comes Trouble: Stories From My Life] (2011). His films include the Academy Award-winning [Bowling for Columbine], [Roger and Me], [Fahrenheit 9/11], [Sicko], and [Capitalism: A Love Story]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301442-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301442-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author and syndicated columnist Ann Coulter talked about her life and career. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included politics, the media, and the culture wars. A video clip was shown of Ms. Coulter talking to people as she signed books at a book launch party held by the Heritage Foundation. Ann Coulter is the legal correspondent for [Human Events] magazine is the author of eight books, including [Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right; If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd be Republicans]; and her latest, [Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/300573-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/300573-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Noam Chomsky, professor of Linguistics at MIT University in Cambridge, MA, talked about his life and career as a political activist and critic of U.S. foreign policy. Among the topics he addressed were efforts to combat terrorism, war with Iraq, and Bush administration economic and foreign policy. He also responded to questions from viewers on the telephone and submitted by fax and electronic mail. Mr. Chomsky's books included: [Language and Mind]. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1968. [American Power and the New Mandarins]. New York: Pantheon Books and London: Chatto & Windus, 1969. [At War with Asia]. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory]. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1970. [For Reasons of State]. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970. [Chomsky: Selected Readings], edited by J. Allen and P. Van Buren. London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Problems of Knowledge and Freedom]. New York: Pantheon, 1971. [Language and Responsibility]. New York: Pantheon, 1978. [Intellectuals and the State]. Baarn, Netherlands: Internationale, Het Wereldvenster, 1978. [The Political Economy of Human Rights, vol. 1, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism and vol. 2, After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology]. Boston: South End Press, 1979. [Rules and Representations]. New York: Columbia University Press and Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publisher, 1980. [The Fateful Triangle: Israel, the United States, and the Palestinians]. Boston: South End Press, 1983 and Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1984. [Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use]. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986. [The Chomsky Reader], edited by J. Peck. New York: Pantheon Books, New York, 1987. [On Power and Ideology, The Managua Lectures]. Boston: South End Press and Montreal and New York: Black Rose Books, 1987. [Language and Problems of Knowledge. The Managua Lectures]. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1987. [Thought Control in Democratic Societies]. Boston: South End Press; London: Pluto Press; Montreal, Toronto, New York, London: CBC Enterprises, 1989. [Secrets, Lies and Democracy]. Berkeley, Calif.: Odonian Press, 1994. [East Timor: Genocide in Paradise]. Tucson, AZ: Odonian Press, 1995. [On Language: Chomsky's Classsic Works "Language and Responsibility" and "Reflections on Language" in One Volume]. New York: The New Press, 1998. [The New Military Humanism: Lessons from Kosovo]. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1999. [New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind]. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [9-11. An Open Media Book], edited by Greg Ruggerio. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001. [ Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky], edited by Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel. The New Press, 2002. [Pirates & Emperors, Old and New: International Terrorism in the Real World]. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 2002. [Power and Terror: Post-9/11 Talks and Interviews]. Edited by John Junkerman and Takei Masakazu. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003. [Chomsky on Democracy and Education]. Edited by Carlos P. Otero. New York and London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/176809-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/176809-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Historian Gordon Wood talked about his life, career, and his books on the American Revolution, the making of the Constitution, and the importance of historical study. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video was shown from earlier in the week as he gave a tour of his office in his home in Providence, Rhode Island, and his nearby office at Brown University. He talked about his writing and research methods. Professor Brown also reacted to a video clip of Ralph Nader talking about Benjamin Franklin during his "In Depth" interview on August 1, 2010. Gordon Wood is the award-winning author of several books including [The Creation of the American Republic 1776 - 1787] (1969), winner of the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes, and [The Radicalism of the American Revolution] (1992), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Gordon Wood has taught at William and Mary, Harvard, the University of Michigan and Cambridge. He is Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus at Brown University. His other books include: [Revolution and the Political Integration of the Enslaved and Disenfranchised] (1974); [The Making of the Constitution] (1987); [The American Revolution: A History] (2001); [The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin] (2004); [Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different] (2006); [The Purpose of the Past: Reflections of the Uses of History] (2008); [Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815] (2010). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295328-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295328-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Ms. Didion talked about her career from 1963 to 1996 and about the body of work she produced during that period, including 5 works of fiction and 5 works of non-fiction. She wrote [Slouching Towards Bethlehem], [The Last Thing He Wanted], [Salvador], and [A Book of Common Prayer], among others. During the interview she responded to viewer comments and questions. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/155799-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/155799-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., talked about his life and work. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video clip was shown of Mr. Tyrrell in his home in Alexandria, Virginia, where he talked about his reading and writing habits and showed his library. Bob Tyrrell, founder and editor in chief of [The American Spectator] magazine, was also a syndicated columnist and a contributing editor to the [New York Sun] as well as an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute. Mr. Tyrrell had edited books and written nine books, including: [Public Nuisances] (1979); [The Liberal Crack-Up] (1984); [The Conservative Crack-Up] (1992); [Boy Clinton: The Political Biography] (1996); [Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House] (2004); [The Clinton Crack-Up] (2008); and [After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery] (2010). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297472-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297472-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Ms. Sontag is a human rights activist, playwright, essayist and cultural critic. Her books include novels, a collection of short stories, and works of non-fiction, including [Against Interpretation and Other Essays], [On Photography], [Illness as a Metaphor], [Where the Stress Falls], and her latest book, [Regarding the Pain of Others], which is expected to be published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux in early 2003. She talked about her writing and career as well as responded to viewer comments and questions. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/172991-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/172991-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Professor Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first black American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. She is a professor of humanities at Princeton University. She discussed her writings, her life, and the craft of writing. She responded to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. Her books include: [Sula], [Song of Solomon], [Beloved], [The Bluest Eye], [Paradise], [Tar Baby], [Jazz], and [Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/162375-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/162375-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT David Brooks, a [New York Times] Op-Ed columnist and a commentator on "The PBS Newshour," talked about his life and career. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included the 2012 election and class division in American society. The former contributing editor at [Newsweek] and [The Atlantic Monthly] is the author of several books, including [Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There]; [On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense]; and his latest, [The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302718-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302718-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Vidal talked about his body of work which included essays, plays, and novels. He also talked about the art of writing, his involvement in politics, his perspectives on history, and his experiences as an author. He also responded to viewer comments and questions. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/159496-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/159496-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT British historian Paul Johnson talked by remote link from London, England, about his life, career, and his work. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Mr. Johnson, a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2006. His many books include [Modern Times]; [Intellectuals]; [A History of the American People]; and his memoir, [The Vanished Landscape: A 1930s Childhood in the Potteries]. His latest book is a biography of Brititsh Prime Minister Winston Churchill titled [Churchill]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291969-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291969-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT "Democracy Now!" host and executive producer Amy Goodman responded to viewers' calls, Facebook comments, emails and tweets on topics such as war, politics and grass-roots activism, among others. Ms. Goodman has authored or co-authored five non-fiction books, including [The Exception to the Rulers], [Standing Up to the Madness], and [The Silenced Majority]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311382-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311382-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author and columnist Michelle Malkin talked about her life, works, and career. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video clip was shown of a speech Ms. Malkin delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, on September 8, 2004, against a background of protesters. Photographs and other video clips were also shown in the background. Ms. Malkin, a blogger and Fox News contributor, is the author of four books: [Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores] (2002); [In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror] (2004); [Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild] (2005); and [Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies] (2009). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291010-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/291010-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Ishmael Reed talked about his life, work, and career. Topics included the role of the media in American society, race relations past and present, and the impact of the election of President Obama. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Ishmael Reed is the award-winning author of more than twenty books, including novels, essays, plays, and poetry. Mr. Reed has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. Ishmael Reed is the author of non-fiction books: [Shrovetide in Old New Orleans] (1978); [God Made Alaska for the Indians] (1982); [Writin' is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper] (1989); [Airing Dirty Laundry] (1993); [Another Day at the Front: Dispatches from the Race Wars] (2003); [Blues City: A Walk in Oakland] (2003); [Mixing it Up: Taking on the Media and Other Reflections] (2008); [Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers] (2010). He also provided the introduction and commentary to photography book [Oakland Rhapsody: The Secret Soul of an American Downtown] (1995). Mr. Reed is also the editor of 13 anthologies and the author of 10 fiction works, six books of poetry, and a compilation of six plays. His work includes: [Flight to Canada], [Conversations with Ishmael Reed], [Last Days of Louisiana Red], and [Reckless Eyeballing]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298580-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298580-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author Steven Johnson, co-founder and editor-in-chief of FEED, the former science and culture web magazine, talked about his life, career, and body of work and responded to telephone calls and electronic communicatons. He focused on issues such as communications technology, ways in which innovation affects government policy an daily lives, copyright and intellectual property, and the impact of developments in online technology and social media on the economy and lives of Americans. He is the author of eight books: [Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate] (1999); [Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software] (2002); [Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life] (2005); [Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter] (2005); [The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World] (2006); [The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America] (2008); [Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation] (2010); [Future Perfect: The Case of Progress in a Networked Age] (2012). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308085-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/308085-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Friedman spoke about his career as an author and economist as well as his body of work. Among the topics he addressed were the influence of the Chicago school of economics, his perceptions of past presidential administrations, and America's attitudes toward money. He also responded to viewer questions and comments and was later joined by his wife. This program has a five minute break at approximately the two hour mark before continuing with the interview. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/159003-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/159003-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT In Depth focused on the lives and writings of numerous authors. Authors included Shelby Foote, Ray Kurzweil, Taylor Branch, John Hope Franklin, David Lewis, Shelby Steele, Harold Holzer, Nell Irvin Painter, P.J. O'Rourke, Francis Fukuyama, David Horowitz, John McWhorter and Christopher Hitchens. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/202303-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/202303-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Randall Robinson, founder and president emeritus of TransAfrica, talks about his life, career, and body of work. Mr. Robinson is distinguished scholar in residence at The Dickinson School of Law at Penn State. He received humanitarian awards from UNICEF, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congressional Black Caucus, among others. During the interview he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Mr. Robinson has written five non-fiction books: [Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America]; [The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks]; [The Reckoning: What Blacks Owe to Each Other]; [Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man from His Native Land]; [An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President]. He has also written the novel [Makeda]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/310247-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/310247-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Richard Brookhiser talked about his life and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video clip was shown of Mr. Brookhiser working in his home in New York City and talking about his writing process. Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor at the [National Review], where he has worked since 1977. He had a column at the [New York Observer] for 20 years, ending in 2007, and currently writes a column for [American History]. Mr. Brookhiser wrote and hosted PBS documentaries on George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. He also curated an Alexander Hamilton exhibition at the New York Historical Society in 2004-2005. Mr. Brookhiser was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2008 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011. Richard Brookhiser is the author of 11 books: [The Outside Story: How Democrats and Republican Re-Elected Reagan] (1986); [The Way of the WASP] (1991); [Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington] (1996); [Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts that Guided Our First President in War and Peace] (1997); [Alexander Hamilton, American] (1999); [America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918] (2002); [Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution] (2003); [What Would the Founding Fathers Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers] (2006); [George Washington on Leadership] (2008); [Right Time, Right Place: Coming of Age with William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Conservative Movement] (2009); and [James Madison] (2011). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304896-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/304896-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189574-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189574-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker talked about his life and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic mail. Videos were shown of Steven Pinker in his house in Boston, talking about his writing habits and showing the books in his library. Many photographs he had taken were also shown. Steven Pinker currently teaches at Harvard University where he holds the positions of Harvard College Professor and the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the [New York Times, Time], and [Slate], and is the author of seven books, including [The Language Instinct] (1994), [How the Mind Works] (1997), [Words and Rules] (1999), [The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature] (2002), and his latest, [The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature] (2007). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/282181-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/282181-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Martha Nussbaum talked about her life, work, and career. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago Law School. She is author of 16 books on social justice, women's rights, and world citizenship, including: [Women and Human Development]; [Frontiers of Justice]; and [Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293912-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293912-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Keegan the defense editor of [The Daily Telegraph] and the author of a number of books, including [The Face of Battle], [World Armies], [Six Armies in Normandy], [The Mask of Command], [The Price of Admiralty], [The Second World War], [A History of Warfare], [Fields of Battle], [The Battle for History], [The First World War], [Churchill], and [Intelligence in War] spoke about his writings and career as a military historian. He also responded to viewer comments and questions on a number of subjects including military operations in Iraq, efforts to combat terrorism, and tensions in the Middle East. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/178919-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/178919-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author and historian Pauline Maier talked about her work and her life and career. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology history professor, she has written several text books on the Revolutionary period and four popular books on the era: [From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776] (1972); [The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams] (1980); [American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence] (1998); and [Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788] (2010). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298016-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298016-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Michael Beschloss talked about his life and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video was shown of Mr. Beschloss giving a tour of President Lincoln's Cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers' Home in Washington. He talked about visiting historic sites and the book he was writing on presidents in wartime. Michael Beschloss is a presidential historian and a regular contributor to PBS's "The Newshour." He is a trustee of the White House Historical Association, and a former trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. He has also served as a historian for the Smithsonian Institute. Michael Beschloss is the author of six books: [Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance] (1980); [Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair] (1986); [Eisenhower: A Centennial Life] (1990); [The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-196]3 (1991); [The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945] (2002); and [Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989] (2007). He is also the co-author with Strobe Talbott of [At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War] (1993), and the editor of three books: [Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964] (1997); [Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965] (2010); and [Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy] (2011). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307474-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/307474-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Professor Paglia talked about her writing and teaching career and about her books. She also talked about American culture, feminism, the state of American politics, and her experiences as a social critic. She responded to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. Professor Paglia is a social critic, political commentator, professor, and essayist. She is the author of four books: [Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson; Sex, Art and American Culture; Vamps and Tramps;] and [The Birds.] http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/177475-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/177475-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) talked about his political career, politics in Washington, and his book, [The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting America]. In 2012 Senator Coburn also published [Money for Nothing], [Oklahoma Waste Report: Exposing Washington's Wasteful Spending Habits in our Own Backyard], and [Subsidies of the Rich and Famous]. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309282-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309282-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil was interviewed about his life and work. Topics included expanding human intelligence with machines, human pattern recognition, inventing machines to help persons with sensory disabilities, and artificial intelligence. He responded to viewer calls and electronic mail. Included were video clips of Mr. Kurzweil's appearance on "I've Got a Secret" in 1965, a demonstration of his female alter ego in a virtual reality community in 2001, and two clips from October 30, 2006, of a tour of his office in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, where he demonstrated technology. Mr. Kurzweil is the author of several books on the subject of artificial intelligence, including [The Age of Intelligent Machines], [The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence], and his latest, [The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology]. His companies have made major breakthroughs in print, sound and speech recognition technologies. As a result of his work, he was awarded the 1999 National Medal of Technology by President Clinton. He is also the author of [The 10% Solution for a Healthy Life] and [Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/194500-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/194500-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Niall Ferguson talked about his life and work, and responded to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. In addition to his Oxford visiting professorship, he also taught Financial History at the Stern School of Business at New York University and was a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of five books: [The Pity of War: Explaining World War One; The House of Rothschild] (in two volumes, [Money's Prophets] and [The World's Banker]); [The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000; Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power;] and [Colossus: The Price of America's Empire,] which publishes in April 2004. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/181456-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/181456-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Tibor Machan talked about his life, work, and career. Topics included morality in business, capitalism versus individualism, and the pros and cons of the Libertarian philosophy. He reacted to a brief video clip of Ayn Rand being interviewed for CBS News and a video of Mr. Machan talking about Ayn Rand for Reason TV was shown. He also reacted to a clip of President Obama speaking on April 13, 2011. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications from the grounds of the University Park Campus of the University of Southern California during the [Los Angeles Times] Festival of Books. Tibor Machan holds the R.C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University. He is also professor emeritus of philosophy at Auburn University and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Professor Machan is the co-founder and former editor of [Reason] magazine. Tibor Machan is the sole author of 29 English language books, the co-author of four books, the sole editor of 15 books, and co-editor of five books. His books include [The Pseudo-Science of B.F. Skinner] (1973), [Liberty and Culture: Essays on the Idea of a Free Society] (1989), [Private Rights and Public Illusions] (1995); [Ayn Rand] (2000); and [The Promise of Liberty: A Non-Utopian Vision] (2008). His memoir, [The Man Without a Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist], was published in 2004. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298992-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/298992-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Pat Buchanan talked about his life and career and his philosophy. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Video was also shown of Patrick Buchanan in his home in McLean, Virginia, on August 5, 2008, talking about his writing process. Pat Buchanan was the senior adviser to three U.S. presidents and ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1992 and 1996 as well as being the Reform Party candidate in 2000. One of the original hosts on CNN's "Crossfire" and a founding member of "The McLaughlin Group," he is currently a senior policy analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated columnist. Mr. Buchanan is the author of ten books including: [The New Majority] (1973); [Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories] (1975); [Right from the Beginning] (1990); [Great Betrayal] (1998); [The Death of the West] (2002); and [Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War] (2008). Includes program 280462-1. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293287-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293287-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Ben Mezrich talked about his life and career and responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included choosing the topics of his books, his research and writing style, and the experience of having books made into movies. A video clip was shown of an interview with Brian Sweany from July 15, 2011. Video clips were shown in the background, including form the movies [21] and [The Social Network]. Ben Mezrich is the author of novels and several nonfiction books including: [Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions]; [Busting Vegas: The M.I.T Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees]; and [Rigged: The True Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, from Wall Street to Dubai]. Two of his book, [The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook] and [Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions], have been made into motion pictures. His latest book is [Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301874-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/301874-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Ralph Nader talked about his life and career. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Ralph Nader ran for president of the United States on the Green Party ticket in 1996 and 2000 and as an independent in 2004 and 2008. His first book, [Unsafe at Any Speed], was an indictment of the auto industry published in 1965. As a consumer advocate he has spoken out on a variety of issues, including health care, food safety, environmental pollution, worker rights, tax reform, civil rights, and corporate influence. Ralph Nader is author or co-author of more than 20 books, including: [Whistle-Blowing] (1972); [Action for a Change] (1973); [The Big Boys] (1986); [The Lemon Book] (1990); [Winning the Insurance Game] (1990); [Canada Firsts] (1992); [Collision Course] (1994); [No Contest] (1996); [Ralph Nader Reader] (2000); [Cutting Corporate Welfare] (2000); [Crashing the Party] (2002); [In Pursuit of Justice] (2004); [The Good Fight] (2004); [Civic Arousal] (2004); [The Seventeen Traditions] (2007); and a fictional work, [Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!] (2009). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294832-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294832-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Alexander Cockburn was interviewed at his rural home in Petrolia, California. He talked about his lifestyle and showed his 1960's cars, artwork, outbuildings, dog and horse. He showed his father's manual typewriter and talked about his life and family, his work habits, and his online newsletter, [CounterPunch]. Portions of the video were first aired on April 1, 2007, during during program ID 196500-1, "In Depth with Alexander Cockburn." The event date is not known. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/289570-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/289570-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Melanie Phillips spoke about her eight non-fiction books and responded to viewer telephone calls and electronic communications. Ms Phillips is the author of: [The Divided House: Women at Westminster]; [Doctors' Dilemmas: Medical Ethics and Contemporary Science]; [All Must Have Prizes]; [The Sex-Change Society: Feminized Britain and the Neutered Male]; [America's Social Revolution]; [The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement]; [Londonistan: How Britain Has Created a Terror State Within]; and [The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, and Power]. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311970-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/311970-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Professor West talked about his career and his entire body of work and responded to audience telephone calls, faxes and electronic mail. Professor West has written or edited more than twenty books, on topics ranging from religion and philosophy to politics and race. His most recent books are [The Cornel West Reader] (1999) and [The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country], (2000, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) His first book, written in his 20s, was [Prophecy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity] (1982). He has also written [Prophetic Fragments] (1988), [The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism] (1989), [The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought] (1991), [Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life] (1991, with bell hooks), [Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism] (1993, Volumes 1 & 2), [Race Matters] (1993), [Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America] (1993), [White Screens, Black Images: Hollywood from the Dark Side] (1994, by James Snead, edited with Colin MacCabe), [Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America] (1995, with Michael Lerner), [The Future of the Race] (1996, with Henry Lewis Gates, Jr.), [Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America] (1997), [The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform] (1998, with Roberto Mangabeira Unger), and [The War Against Parents] (1998, with Sylvia Ann Hewlett). He is the editor of [Post-Analytic Philosophy] (1985, with John Rajchman), and [Struggle in the Promised Land] (1997, with Jack Salzman). In September 2001 Professor West released a spoken-word CD called "Sketches of My Culture." http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/168013-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/168013-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Phyllis Bennis talked about her life, career, and work. Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, is also a fellow at the Transnational Institute and an adviser to United Nation officials on the Middle East. She responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A previously recorded video was shown of Ms. Bennis giving a tour of her library and talking about her writing habits at her home in the Adams Morgan area of Washington, D.C. Phyllis Bennis is the author of eight books, including [From Stones to Statehood: The Palestinian Uprising] (1990); [Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN] (2000); [Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis] (2003) [Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer] (2009); [Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer] (2009); and [Ending the US War in Afghanistan: A Primer] (2010). Ms. Bennis is also co-editor of [Beyond the Storm: A Gulf Crisis Reader] (1991) and [Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order] (1993). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297084-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/297084-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Mr. Buckley talked about his body of published works, people who have influenced his thinking, and his political philosophies. He also responded to viewer telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail. He founded the [National Review] in 1955 and was its editor in chief until 1990. His column 'On the Right' appeared weekly in over 300 newspapers. His television show 'Firing Line,' PBS' longest-running show, began in 1966. He has written and edited more than 40 books, both fiction and nonfiction. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/156252-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/156252-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Author and syndicated radio talk show host Bill Bennett talked about his life, work, and career. Former Secretary Bennett discussed his books on American history, the state of education in the country, and electoral politics. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. A video was shown of Mr. Bennett giving a tour of the radio station in Arlington, Virginia, from where his show "Morning in America" is broadcast. He introduced members of his staff and talked about his writing habits. William Bennett is co-director of Empower America and founder and chairman of K12, an Internet-based school. Bill Bennett served as President Reagan's chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities and secretary of education, and as the first President's Bush's "Drug Czar." He is the author or co-author of more than 20 books for adults and children, including [The Book of Virtues] (1993); [The Moral Compass] (1995); [The Death of Outrage] (1998); [The Educated Child] (2000); [The American Patriots Almanac] (2008); and [A Century Turns] (2010). http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294333-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/294333-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Alice Walker was interviewed about her life, her career, and her body of writings. She was interviewed in her home in Berkeley, California, and views of her home were shown. She responded to viewer telephone calls and electronic mail. Ms. Walker is the author of over twenty-five books, including [The Third Life of Grange Copeland; Living by the Word; Warrior; In Search of our Mother's Gardens; Anything We Love Can Be Saved; We Are the One's We Have Been Waiting For]; and [The Color Purple] that won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1983. Her most recent book, [Why War Is Never a Good Idea], is an illustrated book intended for ages 4-8. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203000-1 info@c-spanarchives.org (National Cable Satellite Corporation) http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/203000-1 Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT