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  • The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World

    Who were the titans, engineers, and test pilots racing to deliver the world’s first transatlantic passenger jet? We’ll talk this hour with journalist Sam Howe Verhovek, author of the new book “Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World” (Penguin, 2010).

  • From the Archive: Quanah Parker & the Rise & Fall of the Comanches

    What was Texas like when it was still wild – just after independence in the mid 19th Century? Journalist S.C. Gwynne tells the legendary story of the 1836 kidnapping of nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker and its consequences in his highly-acclaimed new book “Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of […]