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The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!

Episode Date
BN+: Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"
Dec 09, 2025
Q&A: Eugene Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director & Author
Dec 08, 2025
ABC: Jodi Picoult on Storytelling, Ethics, and the Power of Fiction
Dec 07, 2025
AW: David Gelles on How Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Built a Purpose-Driven Company
Dec 07, 2025
BN+: Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"
Dec 02, 2025
Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency
Dec 01, 2025
AW: Ken Vogel’s “Devils’ Advocates”: Inside Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and D.C.’s Hidden Foreign Influence Networks
Nov 30, 2025
BN+: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story
Nov 25, 2025
Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom, "In the Name of Freedom"
Nov 24, 2025
ABC: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts
Nov 23, 2025
AW: Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty on Understanding Today’s Russia
Nov 23, 2025
BN+: Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"
Nov 18, 2025
Q&A: Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership
Nov 17, 2025
ABC: Walter Isaacson on the Minds That Shape Our Modern World
Nov 16, 2025
After Words: George Selgin, "False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Bitcoin"
Nov 16, 2025
BN+: William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"
Nov 11, 2025
Q&A: Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House
Nov 10, 2025
David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History
Nov 09, 2025
2025 Printers Row Lit Fest: Maureen Dowd on the Culture of Celebrity in America
Nov 09, 2025
BN+: Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency
Nov 04, 2025
Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi
Nov 03, 2025
Pulitzer Prize Author Stacy Schiff on Writing History That Feels Alive
Nov 02, 2025
Eric Trump, "Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation"
Nov 02, 2025
BN+: Geri Spieler, "Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford"
Oct 28, 2025
Q&A: Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood
Oct 27, 2025
Justice Amy Coney Barrett on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"
Oct 26, 2025
Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Oct 26, 2025
BN+: Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
Oct 21, 2025
Q&A: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin
Oct 20, 2025
From the Library of Congress: John Grisham on Storytelling and Justice
Oct 19, 2025
AW: "Rocket Dreams..." C. Davenport, Musk, Bezos and space race
Oct 19, 2025
BN+: Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s
Oct 14, 2025
AW: Jane Goodall "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink"
Oct 12, 2025
BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power
Oct 07, 2025
Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"
Oct 06, 2025
AW: Trump 2024: Joe Concha on Strategy, Media, and The Greatest Comeback Ever
Oct 05, 2025
BN+: Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"
Sep 30, 2025
Q&A: Every Screen on the Planet: Emily Baker-White on the Future of Technology and Society
Sep 29, 2025
AW: The Mission: Tim Weiner on How the CIA Operates in the Modern Era
Sep 28, 2025
BN+: Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century
Sep 23, 2025
Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency
Sep 22, 2025
Lee Tilghman on ‘If You Don’t Like This I Might Die’: Life Inside Influencer Culture
Sep 21, 2025
BN+: Edward Luce, "Zbig"- Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy
Sep 16, 2025
Q&A: Ann Butler, "Wife, Mother, Spy" — Women, Espionage, and the CIA
Sep 15, 2025
AW: Gianno Caldwell, "The Day My Brother Was Murdered" — Crime, Justice, and Loss
Sep 13, 2025
BN+: Simon Ball, "Death to Order"
Sep 09, 2025
Q&A: John Malone, "Born to Be Wired"
Sep 08, 2025
AW: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"
Sep 07, 2025
BN+: Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"
Sep 02, 2025
Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"
Sep 01, 2025
AW: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"
Aug 31, 2025
BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"
Aug 26, 2025
Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career
Aug 25, 2025
AW: Michael Grynbaum, "Empire of the Elite"
Aug 24, 2025
BN+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"
Aug 19, 2025
Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"
Aug 18, 2025
AW: Isabel Allende, "My Name Is Emilia del Valle"
Aug 17, 2025
BN+: David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"
Aug 12, 2025
Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"
Aug 11, 2025
AW: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager & Isaac Arnsdorf, "2024"
Aug 10, 2025
BN+: Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"
Aug 05, 2025
Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"
Aug 04, 2025
AW: "Framed," John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
Aug 03, 2025
BN+: John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"
Jul 29, 2025
Q&A: Cornel West & Robert George, "Truth Matters"
Jul 28, 2025
AW: Patrick McGee, "Apple in China"
Jul 27, 2025
BN+: Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"
Jul 22, 2025
Q&A: Presidential Legacies
Jul 21, 2025
AW: Bill Clinton and James Patterson, "First Gentleman"
Jul 20, 2025
BN+: Dave Barry, "Class Clown"
Jul 15, 2025
Dr. Robert Malone, "PsyWar"
Jul 14, 2025
AW: Senator Lisa Murkowski, "Far From Home"
Jul 13, 2025
BN+: John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"
Jul 08, 2025
Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair
Jul 07, 2025
AW: Jose Andres. "Change the Recipe"
Jul 06, 2025
BN+: Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"
Jul 01, 2025
Q&A: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"
Jun 30, 2025
Dave and Dina McCormick, "Who Believed in You?"
Jun 29, 2025
BN+: William Geroux, "The Fifteen"
Jun 24, 2025
Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"
Jun 23, 2025
AW: Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults
Jun 22, 2025
BN+: Claire Hoffman, "Sister, Sinner"
Jun 17, 2025
Q&A: Mark Whitaker, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X"
Jun 16, 2025
AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"
Jun 15, 2025
BN+: Kathryn Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen"
Jun 10, 2025
Q&A: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-Founder
Jun 09, 2025
AW: Stephanie Land, "Maid"
Jun 08, 2025
BN+: Kenneth Rogoff, "Our Dollar, Your Problem"
Jun 03, 2025
Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"
Jun 02, 2025
BN+: Rick Atkinson, "The Fate of the Day"
May 27, 2025
Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"
May 26, 2025
BN+: Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn"
May 20, 2025
Q&A: Christopher Cox, "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn"
May 19, 2025
AW: Leah Litman, "Lawless - How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes"
May 18, 2025
BN+: Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"
May 13, 2025
Q&A: John Kasich, "Heaven Help Us"
May 12, 2025
AW: Sophie Gilbert, "Girl on Girl - How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves"
May 11, 2025
BN+: Clay Risen, "Red Scare"
May 06, 2025
Q&A: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"
May 05, 2025
AW: David Graham, "The Project - How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America"
May 04, 2025
BN+: Jill Eicher, "Mellon vs. Churchill"
Apr 29, 2025
Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"
Apr 28, 2025
AW: Stephen Witt, "The Thinking Machine - Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip"
Apr 27, 2025
BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"
Apr 22, 2025
Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"
Apr 21, 2025
AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other
Apr 20, 2025
BN+: Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"
Apr 15, 2025
Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"
Apr 14, 2025
AW: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), "Turnaround - America's Revival"
Apr 11, 2025
BN+: Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"
Apr 08, 2025
Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"
Apr 07, 2025
AW: David Enrich, "Murder the Truth"    
Apr 06, 2025
BN+: Dennis Hutchinson, "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"
Apr 01, 2025
Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career
Mar 31, 2025
AW: Paul Blustein, "King Dollar - The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency"'
Mar 30, 2025
BN+: Stuart Banner, "The Most Powerful Court in the World"
Mar 25, 2025
Q&A: Loretta Ross, "Calling In"
Mar 24, 2025
AW: Michael Lewis, "Who is Government?"
Mar 23, 2025
The C-SPAN Story
Mar 20, 2025
BN+: Steven Gillon, "Presidents at War"
Mar 18, 2025
Q&A: Meryl Gordon, "The Woman Who Knew Everyone"
Mar 17, 2025
AW: Dr. Adam Ratner, "Booster Shots -The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health"
Mar 16, 2025
BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"
Mar 11, 2025
Q&A: Rep. James Comer (R-KY), "All the President's Money"
Mar 10, 2025
AW: Omar El Akkad, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"
Mar 09, 2025
BN+: Katherine Carter, "Churchill's Citadel"
Mar 04, 2025
Q&A: Tara Roberts, "Written in the Waters"
Mar 03, 2025
Kevin Fagan, "The Lost and the Found - A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances"
Mar 02, 2025
BN+: Ruth Franklin, "The Many Lives of Anne Frank"
Feb 25, 2025
Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 2
Feb 24, 2025
AW: Eve Ewing, "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism"
Feb 23, 2025
BN+: Sean McMeekin, "July 1914"
Feb 18, 2025
Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 1
Feb 17, 2025
AW: Anson Frericks, "Last Call for Bud Light"
Feb 16, 2025
BN+: David Levering Lewis, "The Stained Glass Window"
Feb 11, 2025
Q&A: Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Feb 10, 2025
AW: Omo Moses, "The White Peril - A Family Memoir"
Feb 09, 2025
BN+: Jane Calvert, "Penman of the Founding"
Feb 04, 2025
Q&A: Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance"
Feb 03, 2025
After Words: Eva Dou, House of Huawei - The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company"
Feb 02, 2025
BN+: Robert Kaplan, "Waste Land"
Jan 28, 2025
Q&A: Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 2
Jan 26, 2025
BN+: John Berendt, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"
Jan 21, 2025
Q&A: Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 1
Jan 20, 2025
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), "It Takes Chutzpah - How to Fight Fearlessly for Progressive Change"
Jan 19, 2025
BN+: Lincoln Scholar Harold Holzer on His Life & Work
Jan 14, 2025
Q&A: Sharon McMahon, "The Small and the Mighty"
Jan 13, 2025
AW: Adam Chandler, "99% Perspiration - A New Working History of the American Way of Life"
Jan 12, 2025
BN+: Michael Tackett, "The Price of Power"
Jan 07, 2025
Q&A: Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"
Jan 06, 2025
AW: Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), "We Before Me"
Jan 05, 2025
Brion McClanahan, "9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America"
Dec 31, 2024
Q&A: Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates
Dec 30, 2024
BN+: Peter Osnos, "LBJ & McNamara"
Dec 24, 2024
Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director
Dec 23, 2024
AW: Andy Puzder, "A Tyranny for the Good of Its Victims"
Dec 22, 2024
BN+: Edward Aldrich, "The Partnership"
Dec 17, 2024
Q&A: Larry Silverstein, "The Rising"
Dec 16, 2024
AW: James Rickards, "MoneyGPT - AI and the Threat to the Global Economy"
Dec 15, 2024
BN+: James Bradley, "Martin Van Buren"
Dec 10, 2024
Q&A: Malcolm Gladwell, "Revenge of the Tipping Point"
Dec 09, 2024
AW: T.J. English, "Los Muchachos,"
Dec 07, 2024
AB: Glory Edim on the Well-Read Black Girl Book Club
Dec 06, 2024
BN+: Evan Thomas, "The Wise Men"
Dec 03, 2024
Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"
Dec 02, 2024
BN+: Corey Brettschneider, "The Presidents and the People"
Nov 26, 2024
Q&A: Peggy Noonan, "A Certain Idea of America"
Nov 25, 2024
AW: Stephanie Gorton, "The Icon and the Idealist - Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America"
Nov 24, 2024
BN+: Talmage Boston, "How the Best Did It"
Nov 19, 2024
Q&A: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"
Nov 18, 2024
AW: Vince Beiser, "Power Metal - The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future"
Nov 17, 2024
AB: James Patterson, "American Heroes"
Nov 15, 2024
BN+: Kyla Scanlon, "In This Economy?"
Nov 12, 2024
Q&A: Stuart Eizenstat, "The Art of Diplomacy"
Nov 11, 2024
AW: Tom Fitton, "Rights and Freedoms in Peril - An Investigative Report on the Left's Attack on America"
Nov 10, 2024
BN+: Tess Owen, "Inside the Patriot Wing"
Nov 05, 2024
AW: Lina Zeldovich, "The Living Medicine"
Nov 03, 2024
Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director
Nov 03, 2024
AB: Miranda Devine on the Biden Family
Nov 01, 2024
BN+: Howard Blum, "Night of the Assassins"
Oct 29, 2024
Q&A: Pamela Toler, "The Dragon from Chicago"
Oct 28, 2024
AW: Rep. Mike Waltz, "Hard Truths - Think and Lead Like a Green Beret"
Oct 27, 2024
BN+: Max Boot, "Reagan: His Life and Legend"
Oct 22, 2024
Q&A: John Mackey, "The Whole Story" & Steven Pinker, "Rationality"
Oct 21, 2024
AW: Stephanie Baker "Punishing Putin"
Oct 20, 2024
BN+: Brenda Wineapple, "Keeping the Faith"
Oct 15, 2024
Q&A: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"
Oct 14, 2024
AW: Brigid Schulte, "Over Work"
Oct 12, 2024
AB: Kirk Cameron, "Born to Be Brave
Oct 11, 2024
BN+: Harvey Mansfield on Presidential Immunity
Oct 08, 2024
Q&A: Francis Collins, "The Road to Wisdom"
Oct 07, 2024
AW: Timothy Snyder, "On Freedom"
Oct 05, 2024
BN+: Megan Gorman, "All the Presidents' Money"
Oct 01, 2024
Q&A: Michael & Robert Meeropol, Sons of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg on the Rosenberg Spy Case
Sep 30, 2024
AW: Paola Ramos, "Defectors -The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America"
Sep 29, 2024
AB: Fall Book Preview 2024
Sep 26, 2024
BN+: Lindsay Chervinsky, "Making the Presidency"
Sep 24, 2024
Q&A: James Allen, Jr., "Not My Chair"
Sep 23, 2024
AW: Brooke Harrington, "Offshore - Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism"
Sep 22, 2024
BN+: Dr. Marty Makary, "Blind Spots"
Sep 17, 2024
Q&A: Peter Osnos, "LBJ and McNamara"
Sep 16, 2024
AW: Kim Wehle, "Pardon Power - How the Pardon System Works - and Why"
Sep 14, 2024
AB: Patrick Oliver, founder and CEO of Say It Loud! Readers & Writers
Sep 14, 2024
BN+: Ken Khachigian, "Behind Closed Doors"
Sep 10, 2024
Q&A: Steven Ford on Gerald Ford's Presidency
Sep 09, 2024
AW: Joel Pollak, "The Agenda - What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days"
Sep 07, 2024
BN+: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 2
Sep 03, 2024
Q&A: Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"
Sep 02, 2024
BN+: David Roll, "Ascent to Power" – Part 1
Aug 27, 2024
Q&A: Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"
Aug 25, 2024
BN+: Tevi Troy, "The Power and the Money"
Aug 20, 2024
Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"
Aug 19, 2024
BN+: Maureen Callahan, "Ask Not"
Aug 13, 2024
Q&A: World War II Veterans Steven Ellis & Rolf Slen
Aug 12, 2024
BN+: Richard Brookhiser, "Glorious Lessons"
Aug 06, 2024
Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"
Aug 05, 2024
BN+: Former Washington Post Reporter & Professor Leon Dash
Jul 30, 2024
Q&A: Tammy Bruce, "Fear Itself"
Jul 29, 2024
AW: Peter Goodman, "How the World Ran Out of Everything"
Jul 27, 2024
BN+: Ronald Feinman, "Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency"
Jul 23, 2024
Q&A: J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis"
Jul 22, 2024
AW: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"
Jul 21, 2024
AB: The 2024 Kukula Book Review Awards
Jul 19, 2024
BN+: Nigel West, "Operation Garbo"
Jul 16, 2024
Q&A: Riley Gaines, "Swimming Against the Current"
Jul 15, 2024
AW: Soraya Chemaly, "The Resilience Myth"
Jul 13, 2024
Meg Medina on Reading & Young People
Jul 12, 2024
BN+: Investigative Reporter Brody Mullins on Google & Law Professor Joshua Wright, and "The Wolves of K Street"
Jul 09, 2024
Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"
Jul 08, 2024
BN+: Robert Schmuhl, "Mr. Churchill in the White House"
Jul 02, 2024
Q&A: Frank Bruni, "The Age of Grievance"
Jul 01, 2024
AW: Ruchir Sharma, "What Went Wrong with Capitalism"
Jun 30, 2024
BN+: David Tatel, "Vision"
Jun 25, 2024
Q&A: Virginia Ali & Bernard Demczuk, "Breaking Barriers with Chili"
Jun 24, 2024
AW: Lawrence Ingrassia, "A Fatal Inheritance - How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery"
Jun 23, 2024
AB: Cass Sunstein on Campus Free Speech
Jun 21, 2024
BN+: Historian Stacey Schiff at Purdue University
Jun 18, 2024
Q&A: Christina Swarns, Innocence Project Executive Director
Jun 17, 2024
AW: Ernesto Londoño, "Trippy - The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics"
Jun 15, 2024
BN+: Garrett Graff, "When the Sea Came Alive"
Jun 11, 2024
Q&A: George Takei, "My Lost Freedom"
Jun 10, 2024
AW: Shefali Luthra, "Undue Burden - Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America"
Jun 08, 2024
AB: Andrea Fleck-Nisbet on Independent Book Publishing
Jun 07, 2024
BN+: Erik Larson, "The Demon of Unrest"
Jun 04, 2024
Q&A: World War II Veterans Steve Ellis & Rolf Slen
Jun 03, 2024
AW: Mike Hixenbaugh, "They Came for the Schools"
Jun 01, 2024
BN+: Glenn Loury, "Late Admissions"
May 28, 2024
Q&A: Betty Koed, "Scenes"
May 27, 2024
BN+: Alan Taylor, "American Civil Wars"
May 21, 2024
Q&A: Freeman Hrabowski, "The Resilient University"
May 20, 2024
AW: Jim Wallis, "The False White Gospel"
May 18, 2024
BN+: Craig Whitlock, "Fat Leonard"
May 14, 2024
Q&A: Ilyon Woo, "Master Slave Husband Wife"
May 13, 2024
AW: Johann Hari, "Magic Pill"
May 11, 2024
AB: Children's Book Author Jonah Winter on Censorship
May 10, 2024
BN+: Larry Tye, "The Jazzmen"
May 07, 2024
Q&A: Patrick Kennedy, "Profiles in Mental Health Courage"
May 06, 2024
AW: David Sanger, "New Cold Wars"
May 04, 2024
BN+: Carolyn Eisenberg, "Fire and Rain"
Apr 30, 2024
Q&A: Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, "My Two Lives"
Apr 29, 2024
AW: Susan Page, "The Rulebreaker - The Life and Times of Barbara Walters"
Apr 27, 2024
AB: Publishing Analyst Brenna Connor on Book Sales in 2024
Apr 26, 2024
BN+: Joseph Epstein, "Never Say You've Had a Lucky Life"
Apr 23, 2024
Q&A: Zachary Treitz & Christian Hansen, "American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders"
Apr 22, 2024
AW: Eddie Glaude, "We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For"
Apr 20, 2024
BN+: Chris Moody, "Finding Matt Drudge" Podcast Series
Apr 16, 2024
Q&A: Steven Conn, "The Lies of the Land"
Apr 15, 2024
AW: Batya Ungar-Sargon "Second Class"
Apr 13, 2024
AB: Danny Heitman on Rereading the Classics
Apr 12, 2024
BN+: Jack McCallum, "The Real Hoosiers"
Apr 09, 2024
Q&A: David Charter, "Royal Audience"
Apr 08, 2024
AW: Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War"
Apr 06, 2024
BN+: Stephen Puleo, "The Great Abolitionist"
Apr 02, 2024
Q&A: Dr. Uché Blackstock, "Legacy"
Apr 01, 2024
AW: Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation"
Mar 30, 2024
AB: Jonathan Karp on 100 years of Simon & Schuster
Mar 29, 2024
BN+: Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War"
Mar 26, 2024
Q&A: Carlos Lozada, "The Washington Book"
Mar 25, 2024
AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"
Mar 23, 2024
BN+: Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler, "Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?"
Mar 19, 2024
Q&A: Rob Henderson, "Troubled"
Mar 18, 2024
AW: Jane Marie, "Selling the Dream"
Mar 16, 2024
AB: 2024 Spring Book Preview
Mar 15, 2024
BN+: James Traub, "True Believer"
Mar 12, 2024
Q&A: Scott Eyman, "Charlie Chaplin vs. America"
Mar 11, 2024
AW: Dr. Elizabeth Comen, "All in Her Head"
Mar 09, 2024
BN+: Peter Englund, "November 1942"
Mar 05, 2024
Q&A: Katie Rogers, "American Woman"
Mar 04, 2024
AW: Kara Swisher, "Burn Book - A Tech Love Story"
Mar 02, 2024
Tony Lyons of Skyhorse Publishing
Mar 01, 2024
BN+: Jim Trusty, Defense Attorney
Feb 27, 2024
Q&A: Patti Davis, "Dear Mom and Dad"
Feb 26, 2024
AW: Marie Arana, "LatinoLand - A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority"
Feb 24, 2024
BN+: Glenn Kirschner, Former Federal Prosecutor & "Justice Matters" Host
Feb 20, 2024
Q&A: Speaker Don Scott (D), Virginia House of Delegates
Feb 19, 2024
AW: Andrew Curran, "Who’s Black and Why?"
Feb 17, 2024
AB: Daniel Paisner on Ghostwriting
Feb 16, 2024
BN+: Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg"
Feb 13, 2024
Q&A: Charles Scribner III, "Scribners: Five Generations in Publishing"
Feb 12, 2024
AW: Coleman Hughes, "The End of Race Politics"
Feb 10, 2024
BN+: Benn Steil, "The World That Wasn't"
Feb 06, 2024
QA: Sebastian Thrun, AI Pioneer & Tech Entrepreneur
Feb 05, 2024
AW: Ijeoma Oluo, "Be a Revolution"
Feb 03, 2024
AB: Mary Beth Tinker on Book Bans & Free Speech
Feb 02, 2024
BN: H.W. Brands, "Founding Partisans"
Jan 30, 2024
QA: Betty Koed, "Scenes"
Jan 29, 2024
AW: Donald McNeil, "The Wisdom of Plagues - Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics"
Jan 27, 2024
BN: Ep 150 Nigel Hamilton, "FDR at War" Trilogy
Jan 23, 2024
AW: David Stockman, "Trump's War on Capitalism"
Jan 20, 2024
AB: Brad Meltzer's Ordinary People Change the World Series
Jan 18, 2024
BN: Kira Anne West, Defense Attorney
Jan 16, 2024
AW: Rachel Slade, "Making It in America"
Jan 13, 2024
BN: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, "The Vice President's Black Wife"
Jan 09, 2024
Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"
Jan 08, 2024
AW: Peter Biskind, "Pandora's Box - How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV"
Jan 07, 2024
AB: John Sargent, "Turning Pages"
Jan 05, 2024
BN: Ross Perot on His Life & Career
Jan 02, 2024
Q&A: Craig Fehrman, "Author in Chief"
Jan 01, 2024
BONUS EPISODE: Convo w/ New Q&A Host Peter Slen
Dec 27, 2023
BN: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., "How Do We Get Out of Here?"
Dec 26, 2023
Q&A: Kate Bowler, "Everything Happens for a Reason"
Dec 25, 2023
BN: Nick Bunker, "In the Shadow of Fear"
Dec 19, 2023
Q&A: Susannah Cahalan, "The Great Pretender"
Dec 18, 2023
AW: Tim Alberta "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"
Dec 17, 2023
BN: Michael Bryant (Co-Editor), "Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' and the Holocaust"
Dec 12, 2023
Q&A: Daryl Davis, Musician & Author
Dec 11, 2023
AW: Jeff Horwitz, "Broken Code Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets"
Dec 10, 2023
AB: Transit Books with Adam Levy
Dec 08, 2023
BN: McKay Coppins, "Romney"
Dec 05, 2023
Q&A: Erik Larson, "In the Garden of Beasts"
Dec 04, 2023
AW: Jennifer Burns, "Milton Friedman - The Last Conservative"
Dec 03, 2023
BN: Historians Douglas Brinkley, Joanne Freeman, Edna Medford and H.W. Brands on the Experiment of Democracy in America
Nov 28, 2023
Q&A: Jesse Holland, "The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House"
Nov 27, 2023
BN: Sarah Ogilvie, "The Dictionary People"
Nov 21, 2023
Q&A: Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence.”
Nov 20, 2023
AW: Fei-Fei Li, "The World's I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI"
Nov 19, 2023
BTSA: "The Words of Cesar Chavez" with historian Miriam Pawl
Nov 17, 2023
BN: Martin Gurri, "The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium"
Nov 14, 2023
Q&A: Rosemary Stevens, "A Time of Scandal: Charles R. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and the Making of the Veterans Bureau"
Nov 13, 2023
AW: Greg Lukianoff, "The Canceling of the American Mind"
Nov 12, 2023
BTSA: "Free to Choose" Milton & Rose Friedman with Prof. Mark Skousen
Nov 10, 2023
AB: Stephen Friot, "Containing History"
Nov 10, 2023
BN: Robert Hartley, "Purpose, Power & Prison"
Nov 07, 2023
Q&A: Randy Barnett and Evan Bernick, "The Original Meaning of the 14th Amendment"
Nov 06, 2023
AW: Ruth Simmons, "Up Home - One Girl's Journey"
Nov 05, 2023
BTSA: "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston w/ Prof. Gary Richards
Nov 03, 2023
BN: Ben Stein, "The Peacemaker"
Oct 31, 2023
Q&A: Tom Cronin, "Imagining a Great Republic"
Oct 30, 2023
AW: Martin Baron, "Collision of Power"
Oct 29, 2023
AB: Book Bans & School Libraries
Oct 27, 2023
BTSA: "My Antonia" by Willa Cather w/ Historian Richard Norton Smith
Oct 27, 2023
BN: Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock"
Oct 24, 2023
Q&A: Elizabeth Papez on Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
Oct 23, 2023
AW: Ryan Reilly, "Sedition Hunters - How January 6th Broke the Justice System"
Oct 22, 2023
BTSA: The Life of Mark Twain w/ Professor Matt Seybold
Oct 20, 2023
BTSA: "The Common Law" by Oliver Wendell Holmes w/ Historian Stephen Budiansky
Oct 18, 2023
BN: Diana Henriques, "Taming the Street"
Oct 17, 2023
AW: Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun"
Oct 15, 2023
BN: Kenneth Rendell, "Safeguarding History"
Oct 10, 2023
Q&A: Michael Green, "The Speaker of the House: A Study of Leadership"
Oct 09, 2023
AW: Melissa Kearney, "The Two-Parent Privilege"
Oct 08, 2023
BTSA: Life of Frederick Douglas w/ Prof. David Blight
Oct 06, 2023
BN: Fox News Contributor Karl Rove on America's Broken Politics
Oct 03, 2023
QA: Randall Eliason, On Senator Bob Menendez's First Trial
Oct 02, 2023
AW: Adam Nagourney, "The Times"
Oct 01, 2023
AB: The Internet Archive & Digital Libraries
Sep 29, 2023
BTSA: Journals of Lewis and Clark w/ Author Lanny Jones
Sep 28, 2023
BN: Charlotte Gray, "Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons"
Sep 26, 2023
AW: Meg Kissinger, "While You Were Out - An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence"
Sep 24, 2023
BTSA: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton & John Jay "The Federalist Papers"
Sep 22, 2023
BN: Erec Smith, Co-Founder of Free Black Thought
Sep 19, 2023
Q&A: Cliff Sloan, "The Court at War
Sep 17, 2023
AW: Loren Grush, "The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts"
Sep 17, 2023
AB: Fall Book Preview with Colette Bancroft
Sep 15, 2023
BTSA: Professor Richard Bell on "Common Sense" Thomas Paine (1776)
Sep 15, 2023
BN: Lindsay Chervinsky, "The Cabinet"
Sep 12, 2023
Q&A: Richard Striner, "Ike in Love and War"
Sep 11, 2023
AW: Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School"
Sep 10, 2023
BN: Politico's Kyle Cheney on the January 6 Trials
Sep 05, 2023
Q&A: Richard Norton Smith, "An Ordinary Man"
Sep 04, 2023
BN: Matthew Delmont, "Half American"
Sep 03, 2023
AB: Max Miller, "Tasting History"
Sep 01, 2023
BN: Luke Nichter, "The Year That Broke Politics"
Aug 29, 2023
Q&A: Jean Twenge, "Generations"
Aug 28, 2023
BN: Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory"
Aug 22, 2023
Q&A: Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.
Aug 21, 2023
AB: Goodreads and "Review-Bombing"
Aug 18, 2023
BN: Alan Philps, "The Red Hotel"
Aug 15, 2023
Q&A: James Rosen, "Scalia"
Aug 14, 2023
BN: Adam Andrzejewski, OpenTheBooks.com
Aug 08, 2023
Q&A: Ilyon Woo on the Self-Emancipation of William and Ellen Craft in 1848
Aug 07, 2023
AW: Matt Lewis, "Filthy Rich Politicians"
Aug 06, 2023
AB: Cormac McCarthy & the Publishing Industry
Aug 04, 2023
BN: Katherine Clarke, "Billionaires' Row"
Aug 01, 2023
Q&A: Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"
Jul 31, 2023
AW: Judge Amul Thapar, "The People's Justice - Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him"
Jul 30, 2023
BN: Rebeccah Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow
Jul 25, 2023
Q&A: Felix Salmon, "The Phoenix Economy"
Jul 24, 2023
AW: Wesley Lowery, "American Whitelash - A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress"
Jul 23, 2023
AB: Artificial Intelligence and the Publishing Industry
Jul 21, 2023
BN: Benjamin Lorr, "The Secret Life of Groceries"
Jul 18, 2023
Q&A: Joshua Zeitz, "Lincoln's God"
Jul 17, 2023
AW: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, "The Overlooked Americans"
Jul 16, 2023
BN: Martha Hodes, "My Hijacking"
Jul 11, 2023
Q&A: Tania Branigan, "Red Memory"
Jul 10, 2023
AB: Graphic Artist Jerry Craft on Book Bans
Jul 07, 2023
BN: C.W. Goodyear, "President Garfield"
Jul 04, 2023
Q&A: Mark Clague, "O Say Can You Hear?"
Jul 03, 2023
AW: Jason Del Rey, "Winner Sells All - Amazon, Walmart and the Battle for Our Wallets"
Jul 02, 2023
BN: William Hazelgrove, "The Last Charge of the Rough Rider"
Jun 27, 2023
Q&A: Cassandra Good, "First Family"
Jun 26, 2023
AW: Rebecca Grant, "Birth - Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America"
Jun 25, 2023
AB: Brian O'Leary on Upgrading the Publishing Industry Supply Chain
Jun 23, 2023
BN: Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The World"
Jun 20, 2023
Q&A: Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. on the Murder of Emmett Till and the Search for Justice
Jun 19, 2023
Booknotes+: Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"
Jun 13, 2023
Q&A: Henry Grabar, "Paved Paradise"
Jun 12, 2023
AW: David Bernhardt, "You Report to Me - Accountability for the Failing Administrative State"
Jun 11, 2023
AB: Former FBI Director Comey on Writing Crime Novels
Jun 09, 2023
TRAILER: What is the C-SPAN Bookshelf?
May 30, 2023