The Online NewsHour: Author Dialogues




Feb. 18, 2004		Conversation: Breathing Space Ray Suarez speaks with Heidi Neumark about her book, "Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx." Neumark is the pastor of the Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx, where the congregation is a mixture of Hispanics and African Americans in one of the poorest communities in the city.
Feb. 16, 2004		Conversation With Mordicai Gerstein Jeffrey Brown speaks with longtime writer and illustrator of children's books, Mordicai Gerstein, who won the 2004 Caldecott Medal for "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers," a book about the French aerialist Philippe Petit, who strode a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.
Nov. 20, 2002		My Name is Red Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews Turkish author Orhan Pamuk about the cultural split between Islam and secularism in Turkey.

Nov. 19, 2002		Bush at War Gwen Ifill speaks with journalist and author Bob Woodward about his new book, Bush at War.
Nov. 15, 2002		Public and Private Terence Smith talks with photojournalist Diana Walker about her new book of presidential photographs.
Nov. 14, 2002		The Conquerors Terence Smith talks with Michael Beschloss about his new book, The Conquerors.
Nov. 11, 2002		Life of Pi Ray Suarez speaks with Yann Martel about his Booker Award-winning novel, Life of Pi.
Oct. 22, 2002		Supreme Command Margaret Warner speaks with writer Eliot Cohen about his book, Supreme Command, and the topic of leadership in a time of war. (10/22/02)
Oct. 21, 2002		A Lefty's Legacy Terence Smith interviews Jane Leavy about her new book on baseball legend Sandy Koufax.
Oct. 15, 2002		Caramelo Ray Suarez speaks with writer Sandra Cisneros about her new book, Caramelo, which follows the tale of a Mexican-American family over multiple generations.
Oct. 14, 2002		Crossing Boundaries Writer Salman Rushdie discusses his new book, Step Across This Line, a collection of non-fiction.
Aug. 29, 2002		"A Simple Habana Melody" Ray Suarez speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos about his new book, A Simple Habana Melody: From When the World Was Good.
Aug. 19, 2002		Buckley on Nuremberg Margaret Warner talks with author William F. Buckley about his newest book, Nuremberg: The Reckoning.
Aug. 15, 2002		Men and Speed Gwen Ifill talks with Wayne Miller about his new book Men and Speed: A Wild Ride Through NASCAR's Breakout Season.
July 30, 2002		Stephen Ambrose David Gergen talks with historian-writer Stephen Ambrose about his newest project.
July 23, 2002		The Bondwoman's Narrative Gwen Ifill talks with Henry Louis Gates, editor of The Bondwoman's Narrative, a novel written by a former slave.
July 22, 2002		Tuxedo Park Margaret Warner talks with author Jenet Conant about her new book Tuxedo Park.
July 11, 2002		The Cat from Hue Terence Smith talks with former Vietnam War correspondent John Laurence about his new book, The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story.
July 5, 2002		Where We Stand Terence Smith talks to NewsHour essayist and author Roger Rosenblatt about his new book, Where We Stand: 30 Reasons for Loving Our Country.
July 2, 2002		Bel Canto Gwen Ifill talks with Ann Patchett, author of the award-winning novel Bel Canto.
May 16, 2002		The Last Editor Terence Smith talks with author Jim Bellows about his new book, The Last Editor.
May 9, 2002		Public Intellectuals Margaret Warner talks to author Richard Posner about his new book Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline.
May 7, 2002		Empire Falls Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews Richard Russo, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, Empire Falls.
May 1, 2002		Horse of a Different Color Terence Smith talks to Jim Squires, author of a new book on the running of the Kentucky Derby: Horse of a Different Color.
April 24, 2002		Revenge: A Story of Hope Margaret Warner talks with Laura Blumenfeld about her new book, Revenge: A Story of Hope.
April 22, 2002		Lincoln's Greatest Speech Ray Suarez talks with Ronald C. White, Jr., author of Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural.
April 18, 2002		Pulitzer Prize Winner: Nonfiction Margaret Warner interviews Diane McWhorter, who received a Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction for her book Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama -- The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.
April 15, 2002		The Metaphysical Club Ray Suarez talks to Louis Menand who won the Pulitzer Prize in History for his book The Metaphysical Club.
April 11, 2002		Topdog/Underdog Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews Suzan-Lori Parks, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her play "Topdog/Underdog."
April 10, 2002		Practical Gods Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with Carl Dennis, who won this year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry for his collection Practical Gods.
April 8, 2002		Brown Richard Rodriguez talks about his new book Brown: The Last Discovery of America.
April 2, 2002		The American Revolution Gordon Wood discusses his new book, The American Revolution: A History with Ray Suarez.
April 1, 2002		Lessons of Terror Caleb Carr talks about his new book Lessons of Terror: A history of warfare against civilians -- why it has always failed and why it will again.
March 13, 2002		Ambling Into History Terence Smith talks to New York Times reporter Frank Bruni about his new book, Ambling Into History, which charts President Bush's rise to power.
Feb. 22, 2002		The Power of Babel Ray Suarez talks with John H. McWhorter, author of The Power of Babel, which chronicles the history of language.
Feb. 1, 2002		Lazy B Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor discusses her new autobiography Lazy B with senior correspondent Gwen Ifill.
Dec. 17, 2001		The Best of Times Gwen Ifill talks to author and historian Haynes Johnson about his new book, The Best of Times: America in the Age of Clinton.
Dec. 10, 2001		Billy Collins Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to the new poet laureate, Billy Collins.
Nov. 26, 2001		Vernon Can Read Margaret Warner talks with author Vernon Jordan about his new book: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir.
Nov. 9 , 2001		Reaching for Glory Terence Smith talks to presidential historian Michael Beschloss about his new book, Reaching for Glory.
Sept. 6, 2001		Internet Dictionary Terence Smith interviews Anne Soukhanov, editor of the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary.
Sept. 4 , 2001		Author Anthony DePalma Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book Here: A Biography of the New American Continent, about the North American neighbors of the United States.
Aug. 21, 2001		Bad News Terence Smith talks with two veterans of campaign journalism, Robert Shogan and Richard Reeves, about mistakes the media made while covering Election 2000.
Aug. 16, 2001		The Wild Blue Gwen Ifill talks with historian and author Stephen Ambrose and World War II pilot and former Senator George McGovern about Ambrose's new book, The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B24's over Germany.
Aug. 14, 2001		Yellow Journalist Terence Smith talks to William Wong, author of the new book Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America.
Aug. 9, 2001		Conversation: Author Jimmy Santiago Baca Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with author and poet Jimmy Santiago Baca about two new books, Healing Earthquakes and A Place to Stand.
Aug. 3 , 2001		New Book: Warriors of God Author James Reston discusses his book, Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade.
July 25, 2001		Wide as the Waters Author Benson Bobrick discusses his new book, Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired.
July 16, 2001		American Patriots Ray Suarez speaks with author Gail Buckley about her new book, American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm.
July 11, 2001		The Last Report Author Louise Erdrich discusses her book, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.
July 9, 2001		American Patriots Ray Suarez talks with authors Walter Berns (Making Patriots) and Roger Wilkins (Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers & the Dilemma of Black Patriotism) about their new books.
July 4, 2001		John Adams David McCullough discusses his biography, John Adams.
June 29 , 2001		Botany of Desire Author Michael Pollan talks about his new book, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World.
June 26, 2001		Listening to the Page Book reviewer Alan Cheuse talks about his own book, Listening to the Page.
June 15, 2001		Making Modern War Retired General Wesley Clark talks about his new book, Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat.
May 29, 2001		Daniel Schorr Terence Smith talks with veteran journalist Daniel Schorr about his career in television and radio news.
May 22, 2001		Pearl's Secret Gwen Ifill talks with Neil Henry, author of Pearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for his White Family.
May 4, 2001		Sea Biscuit On the eve of the Kentucky Derby, Terence Smith talks with Laura Hillenbrand, author of Sea Biscuit: An American Legend, a book about the famous racehorse.
April 30, 2001		Chechnya Margaret Warner talks with Anne Nivat, author of Chienne de Guerre, a book about the war in Chechnya.
April 17, 2001		Paul Robeson The son of the legendary actor and singer discusses his new book about his father.
April 13, 2001		Trekking the Holy Land Bruce Feiler discusses his new book, Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses.
Mar. 26, 2001		Lost at Sea Terence Smith talks with Jim Carrier, author of The Ship and the Storm, an investigation into the apparent disappearance of a passenger ship caught in the eye of Hurricane Mitch.
Feb. 26, 2001		World War 3.0 Ken Auletta discusses his book on the case against software giant Microsoft.
Feb. 2, 2001		In America National Book Award winner Susan Sontag discusses her book on a 19th century Polish actress' move to America.
Jan. 24, 2001		The Fight For Equality David Levering Lewis talks about his book on legendary civil rights leader W.E.B. Du Bois.
Jan. 10, 2001		An Hour Before Daylight Former President Jimmy Carter discusses his book on growing up during the Depression.
Dec. 26, 2000		Robert Kennedy, His Life Evan Thomas discusses his latest book.
Dec. 19, 2000		The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce Judith Wallerstein discusses her latest book, an analysis of the long-term effect of divorce on children.
Nov. 23, 2000		Homeless Bird Author Gloria Whelan talks about her latest book, for which she won this year's National Book Award.
Nov. 21, 2000		The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany Martin Goldsmith talks about his book, The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany.
Oct. 19, 2000		Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Margaret Warner talks to longtime NewsHour contributor David Gergen about his new book, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership.
Oct. 16, 2000		Mystery of Capital Hernando de Soto talks about his newest book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Succeeds in the West and Fails Everywhere Else.
Oct. 9, 2000		Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II Ronald T. Takaki speaks about his book on minorities in World War II.
Sept. 15, 2000		In The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship 'Essex' Ray Suarez talks to Nathaniel Philbrick about his book, In the Heart of the Sea.
Aug. 29, 2000		How to Read and Why Ray Suarez talks with literary critic Harold Bloom whose newest book is a guide to great works of literature.
Aug. 21, 2000		Soldier: A Poet's Childhood June Jordan discusses her latest book.
July 4, 2000		Fly Fishing for Sharks. Author Richard Louv talks about why anglers fish, and why they love it so.
June 23, 2000		The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America. Author, Jeffery Rosen explores the diminishing control over use of our most personal information.
June 21, 2000		The Book of Honor : Covert Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA. . Author, Ted Gup talks about his book.
June 8, 2000		Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine. Leading AIDS and cancer researcher Jerome Groopman talks about his new book
June 7, 2000		Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years by Jonathan Kozol, an award-winning author who spent the last two decades examining the lives of urban schoolchildren.
May 31, 2000		Kosovo: War and Revenge by Tim Judah, and Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond by Michael Ignatieff. The two authors talk about life in Kosovo.
May 30, 2000		Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans Joyce Appleby's novel investigates Americans, born between 1776 and 1830, who reinvented themselves and their society.
May 22, 2000		The Tipping Point: How Little Things can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell talks about his book which examines the little things that change our lives.
May 16, 2000		Inferno A talk with, James Nachtwey, the photographer of a collection of unflinching photographs from recent conflicts in Africa and the Balkans.
May 9, 2000		Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There Newshour regular and senior editor of The Weekly Standard, David Brooks discusses his book about the new nouveau riche.
May 3, 2000		Dead Center: Clinton-Gore Leadership and the Perils of Moderation James MacGregor Burns talks about his book on mediocrity in politics.
May 1, 2000		President Reagan: the Role of a Lifetime Lou Cannon discusses his biography of the former president.
April 21, 2000		The Yard Michael S. Sanders talks about his book, which focuses on a Maine shipyard.
April 19, 2000		Repair This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, C.K. Williams, talks about his book of poems, Repair.
April 17, 2000		Freedom From Fear, the American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, David Kennedy, discusses his book.
April 13, 2000		Dinner with Friends This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, Donald Margulies, discusses his play.
April 12, 2000		Interpreter of Maladies This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, Jhumpa Lahir, discusses her work.
April 11, 2000		Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for biography, Stacy Schiff, discusses her work.
April 6, 2000		Working on the Chain Gang Walter Mosley examines what a world without consumer capitalism might look like.
March 31, 2000		Genius Came Early: Creativity in the 20th century Lee Cullum examines the nature of genius, creativity and invention.
March 28, 2000		The new "Beowulf" Senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews author Seamus Heaney about his book, Beowolf.
March 3, 2000		Between Fathers and Sons V.S. Naipaul collects letters to and from family in an effort to present a picture of familial relations outside of the United States.
Feb. 29, 2000		Genome: An Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley explains the Human Genome Project using the unique metaphor of writing a book. Geneticists, he argues, are writing an epic novel -- the biography of the human race.
Feb. 4, 2000		A Flame of Pure Fire Author Roger Kahn talks with senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth about his new book which features the life of sports legend Jack Dempsey.
Jan. 18, 2000		I May Not Get There With You Michael Eric Dyson contends that more than thirty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, there exists a profound misunderstanding of the civil rights leader among many Americans. Examining his complexities to paint a more complete picture of King, Dyson hopes "to resurrect that King, in whom humanity and greatness lived side by side."
Jan. 5, 2000		Bridge Over the Racial Divide Harvard professor William Julius Wilson tells Ray Suarez that political power is unfairly concentrated among the upper classes and urges the creation of "a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat it," incorporating various racial and ethnic groups to improve the conditions of minorities and the poor in America.
Dec. 24, 1999		Reflections on a Ravaged Century Historian Robert Conquest wrote the book Reflections on a Ravaged Century as the culmination of a lifetime researching end observing the ideology he holds responsible for the mass murders of the past 100 years.
Dec. 22, 1999		And the Sea is Never Full Elie Wiesel, the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Holocaust survivor, offers Ray Suarez the concluding volume of his memoirs spanning the past 30 years. During this period, he traveled the world -- including his return to Auschwitz -- met with world leaders and penned Night, his most famous book about his Holocaust experiences.
Dec. 15, 1999		Night Falls Fast Kay Redfield Jamison presents a timely and illuminating examination of suicide to Gwen Ifill. Jamsion reports that someone commits suicide in America every 17 minutes; suicide ranks second among causes of death for college students; and suicide claims more lives per year than AIDS.
Dec. 3, 1999		A Necessary Evil David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Garry Wills, professor of history at Northwestern University and author of A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government.
Nov. 17, 1999		Lady Bird David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Jan Jarboe Russell, author of Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson.
Nov. 10, 1999		Homelands and Waterways David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Adele Logan Alexander, author of Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926.
Nov. 2, 1999		The Big Test David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Nicholas Lemann, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy.
Oct. 20, 1999		The Role Model David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund and author of Lanterns: A Memoir of Mentors.
Oct. 11, 1999		The Women who Wrote the War David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with author Nancy Caldwell Sorel about her new book, The Women who Wrote the War.
Sept. 29, 1999		Age Power David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with author Ken Dychtwald about his new book, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old.

Sept. 13, 1999		Spiritual Machines David Gergen, editor-at-large of U. S. News and World Report, talks with inventor Ray Kurzweil about his new book, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence.
Sept. 7, 1999		The Big Picture David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Dr. Ben Carson, director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University, about his new book The Big Picture: Getting Perspective on What's Really Important in Life.
Aug. 25, 1999		The Students are Watching David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with longtime educators and authors Theodore and Nancy Sizer about their latest book, The Students are Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract.
Aug. 19, 1999		Measuring the Universe David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Kitty Ferguson, professional musician and author of Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time.
Aug. 16, 1999		The First Sex David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Helen Fisher, professor of anthropology at Rutgers University and author of The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are Changing The World.
Aug. 3, 1999		The Decline of Males David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Lionel Tiger, author of The Decline of Males
July 22, 1999		The Curruption of American Politics David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Elizabeth Drew, author of The Curruption of American Politics.
July 16, 1999		Out for Good David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Adam Nagourney and Dudley Clendenin, co-authors of Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America.
July 8, 1999		The Cathedral Within David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Bill Shore, founder and director of the non-profit organization Share Our Strength, about his new book, The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back.
June 30, 1999		Respect David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Sara Lawrence Lightfoot, professor of education at Harvard University and author of Respect: An Exploration.
June 16, 1999		The Tools of a Revolution David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, engages Freeman Dyson, professor of physics at Princeton University, on his new book, The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolution.
June 8, 1999		The American Century David Gergen, editor-at-large of U.S. News and World Report, talks with Harold Evans, editorial director of U.S. News and World Report and The Atlantic Monthly, about his book, The American Century.
May 26, 1999		The World Market David Gergen talks with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization.
May 14, 1999		Visiting "Another Country" David Gergen talks with author Mary Pipher about her new book, Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of our Elders.
April 26, 1999		The Big Bang Book David Gergen talks with Brian Greene, author and Columbia University Physics and Mathematics professor, on his latest book, Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory.
March 15, 1999		The Cousins' War David Gergen engages author and political analyst Kevin Phillips on his new book, The Cousins' War: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America.
March 11, 1999		Spies Like Us David Gergen interviews Allen Weinstein, president of the Center for Democracy and co-author of The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America, the Stalin Era.
March 4, 1999		"Our Kind of People" David Gergen engages Lawrence Otis Graham, an attorney and contributing editor at US News and World Report. He is the author of Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class.
March 1, 1999		American Feminism Danielle Crittenden, founder and editor of The Women's Quarterly magazine, dicusses her book What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes The Modern Woman.
Feb. 24, 1999		"What Remains To Be Discovered" John Maddox, editor emeritus of Nature, argues that scientific discovery is far from complete and that it will be fueled by "the answers to the questions we do not yet know enough to ask."
Feb. 8, 1999		"Working with Emotional Intelligence" Daniel Goleman, author of the best-selling Emotional Intelligence, discusses this very important form of knowledge and why it is an essential ingredient for success in the workplace. </