The Online NewsHour: David Gergen Dialogues





Dec. 31, 1997		An Arbitrary Countdown Professor Steven Jay Gould discusses his book, Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist’s Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown.

Dec. 24, 1997		Nearer My God William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses his relationship with God in his new book.
Dec. 17, 1997		"Breaking with the Past" Gergen engages John Newhouse, former writer for the New Yorker. He’s now a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and author of Europe Adrift.

Dec. 8, 1997		Citizen Soldiers Stephen Ambrose discusses his book, Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany.

Nov. 28, 1997		Requiem David Gergen engages two Vietnam-era photojournalists about their book, Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina.

Nov. 13, 1997		Integration of Races The third David Gergen dialogue about race relations in America. Tonight: Orlando Patterson, a professor of sociology at Harvard University, author of The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America’s Racial Crisis.
Nov. 12, 1997		Melting Pot? David Gergen engages David Shipler, author of A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America.
Nov. 11, 1997		Race Relations Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom discuss their book, America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible.
Nov. 4, 1997		Digital Living? Esther Dyson discusses Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age.
Oct. 24, 1997		Big Trouble Alan Brinkley discusses Big Trouble, a book by the late Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Correspondent J. Anthony Lukas.
Oct. 16, 1997		Surviving the Unabomber Yale Professor David Gelernter talks about his experiences and his book, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber.
Oct. 13, 1997		3-D Hamlet? David Gergen, engages Janet Murray, a humanities professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author Hamlet on the Holodeck, The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace.
Oct. 3, 1997		Why Fight? David Gergen engages James McPherson, Professor of American History at Princeton University, author of For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War.
Sept. 22, 1997		Authority? David Gergen engages Eugene Kennedy, columnist for the Chicago Tribune, co-author of Authority: The Most Misunderstood Idea in America.
Sept. 4, 1997		Encouraging Ideas Lisbeth Schorr's book, Common Purpose: Strengthening American Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America, offers possible solutions to disintegrating families.
Aug. 27, 1997		Born Or Made? What makes a genius? Howard Gardner considers this question in his book Extraordinary Minds.
Aug. 22, 1997		The State of Our Galaxy Author Timothy Ferris, a science writer, discusses his book The Whole Shebang: A State of the Universe's Report.
Aug. 17, 1997		India Turns 50 Shashi Tharoor discusses how India emerged from colonialism, as one of the first of many nations to gain its independence after the world war.
Aug. 11, 1997		Man of Character Author Joseph Ellis discusses the character of Thomas Jefferson, whom he describes as "the great sphinx of American history."
Aug. 1, 1997		Information Overload Author David Shenk discusses the overabundance of information in today's society and its effect on people's daily lives.
July 24, 1997		Life of a Libertarian Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses his book, What It Means To Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation.
July 18, 1997		Behind Closed Doors David Gergen talks with Janna Malamud Smith, author of Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life about the desire for privacy in modern times.
July 11, 1997		The Federal City Novelist Ward Just discusses his book, Echo House, and the culture of Washington, D.C.
July 4, 1997		What was the Declaration of Independence? David Gergen engages Pauline Maier, a Professor of History at MIT, author of American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.
June 27, 1997		The Time Bind Sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild talks about the whirlwind workplace infringing on home life in her book The Time Bind: When Work Becomes home and Home Becomes Work.
June 19, 1997		Crazy Rythm Former Nixon White House counsel Leonard Garment discusses his book Crazy Rythm: My Journey from Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond.
June 10, 1997		Gardens of Eden New York Times science writer and Pulitzer Prize winner William Broad has explored the Earth’s utmost depths in his new book, The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea. He speaks with David Gergen.
May 29, 1997		Doing Battle. Paul Fussell, author of Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, talks with David Gergen about the rigors of war and the personal lessons he learned from his experiences in World War II.
May 20, 1997		Integration, the Army Way. David Gergen engages the authors of All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way discuss social success in the military.They say we could all learn much from the army model.
May 15, 1997		The Unreal America. David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, engages Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal, author of The Unreal America: Architecture and Illusion.
May 6, 1997		The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, engages William Greider, national editor for Rolling Stone Magazine and author of One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism.
April 25, 1997		The Realm of the Living Cell. David Gergen, editor at large of U.S. News & World Report, engages Boyce Rensberger, science writer for the Washington Post, author of Life Itself: Exploring the Realm of the Living Cell.
April 18, 1997		The Mind of the Apostle. David Gergen engages A.N. Wilson, literary editor of the London Evening Standard, author of Paul: The Mind of the Apostle. The new book has caused a stir in Britain because it challenges conventional, traditional thinking about the apostle, Paul, and about Jesus.
April 1, 1997		Lighting out for the Territory. David Gergen engages Shelley Fisher Fishkin, a professor of American studies in English at the University of Texas at Austin, author of Lighting out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture.
March 26, 1997		Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaborations. Warren Bennis talks with David Gergen about group domination of future creative accomplishments.
March 20, 1997		John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity. Garry Wills, professor of History at Northwestern University, talks with David Gergen about America's favorite movie star.
March 7, 1997		African American Literature Anthology. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay, general editors of the new Norton Anthology of African American Literature, discuss over 200 years of African American composition, beginning with the poetry by slaves who weren't allowed to read or write.
Feb. 24, 1997		Divorce Culture. David Gergen engages author Barbara Dafoe Whitehead on the divorce culture and how it’s captivated this country over the last 30 years.
Feb. 21, 1997		Basic Humanity. How can we raise children to be "good" people whose moral character sustains them as adults? Harvard's Robert Coles tells David Gergen his ideas.

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