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Jared Bernstein spoke about his book Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries) in which he outlines several economic pressures faced by a majority of America…

Edward Larson talked about his book A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign, published by Free Press. In his book Mr. Larson chronic…

Shelby Steel talked about his book A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win, published by Free Press. He talked about the challenges that Senator Barack Obama faces i…

Ann Wright, co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq, was joined by Daniel Ellsberg, who wrote the introduction to the book. They tal…

Daniel Farber talked about his book Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have, published by Perseus Books Group. He fo…

Jeffrey Feldman talked about his book Framing the Debate: Famous Presidential Speeches and How Progressives Can Use Them to Change the Conversation (and Win Elections), published by Ig Publi…

Joseph Campbell talked about his book, The Year That Defined American Journalism, published by Routledge. In his book he examines the year 1897, when journalism was becoming 'big business." …

Dina Rasor and Robert Bauman talked about the book they co-authored, Betraying Our Troops: The Destructive Results of Privatizing War, published by Palgrave Macmillan. They described the use…

Ken Alder talked about his book The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession, published by Free Press. He focused on America’s fascination with the concept of truth in his history…

David Margolick talked about his book Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink, published by Alfred A. Knopf. In the book, the author recounted the intense heavyw…

Ray Bourhis talked about his book Insult to Injury: Insurance Fraud, and the Big Business of Bad Faith, published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. In the book, he argued that insurance provid…

Curtis White talked about his book, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves, published by Harper San Francisco. His term “middle mind” describes a portion of mainstream Am…

Former co-anchor of PBS' MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, Robert MacNeil discusses his memoir, Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America," published by Doubleday. He talked about moving from…

Tamim Ansary talked about his latest book, a memoir entitled West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In it, the author talks about …

Participants paid tribute to Jessica Mitford, in reading passages from her book, "The American Way of Death Revisited".

Mr. Hochschild talked about his book King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. He described the search for …

Ronald Takaki discussed his book "A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices". The book which is constructed of oral histories of people from varying ethnic groups throughout A…

Co-Authors Ms. Valerie Lewis and Mr. Walter Mayes talked about their guide to children’s books, Valerie and Walter’s Best Books for Children: A Lively Opinionated Guide, published by Avon Bo…

Professor Douglas Hofstadter talked about, Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, a book about words, poetry translation, language, creativity and pattern. He won a Pulitz…