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Molly Caldwell Crosby presented a history of an illness that emerged during the early 20th century known as sleeping sickness or encephalitis lethargica.ñ It would claim millions of lives h…

Mr. Adair discussed his biography for young adults, Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electronic Age, published by Oxford University Press, about the life, inventions, and business practice…

Marvelyn Brown talked about and read from her book, The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful, and (HIV) Positive (Amistad; August 19, 2008). She recounted her diagnoses as HIV Positive at the age o…

Stephen Mansfield talked about his book The Faith of Barack Obama The book is about Senator Obama’s religious views and the rising influence of the religious left in America. Following his r…

Rev. Joseph Ingle talked about his counseling of death row inmates in the American South. He argued that racial and economic discrimination played a role in death row sentencing. He talked a…

Stephen Mansfield talked about his book, Ten Tortured Words: How the Founding Fathers Tried to Protect Religion in America...and What’s Happened Since. He contended that the separation of …

Bruce Barry talked about his book Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace, published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. In his book Mr. Barry explained why employers…

Stephen Mansfield talked about his book The Faith of the American Soldier, published by Tarcher. In it he discusses the role that religion plays in the lives of American soldiers in Iraq. Du…

Author Ben Ferguson talked about his new book It’s My America Too, published by William Morrow. The 22-year-old discussed his views on a wide range of issues including school prayer, gun con…

Andrew Exum spoke about his book "This Man’s Army: A Soldier’s Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism", published by Gotham Books. He fought in Afghanistan as part of the U.S. A…

Hampton Sides discussed his book Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier, published by Anchor Books. In a collection of thirty essays, Mr. Sides attempts to define what America "means".…

Jennifer Ackerman read excerpts from her book Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book is a series of natural science essays concer…

Mr. Maraniss and Ms. Nakashima talk about their new book The Prince of Tennessee: The Rise of Al Gore, published by Simon and Schuster. The book looks at the early years of Al Gore’s life, …