What will it take to restore habitats, protect migration routes and preserve the planet’s necessary predators? We’ll talk this hour with writer Caroline Fraser, whose new book is “Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution” (Picador, 2010).
What was retirement like for the great hero of World War II whose presidency marked the start of unprecedented prosperity for Americans? We’ll spend this hour with David Eisenhower whose new book is “Going Home To Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961-1969” (Simons & Schuster, 2010). Eisenhower will address the World […]
How important are bats to maintaining a healthy ecosystem and what caused more than a million hibernating bat deaths in the U.S. since 2006? We’ll talk this hour with writer David Quammen, whose article “Bat Crash,” appears in the current issue of National Geographic Magazine.
What was one early 20th Century athlete’s influence on sports, culture and African American hopes for racial equality? We’ll find out this hour with biographer Randy Roberts, whose new book is “Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” (Yale, 2010).
Carol Reed tells what it takes to mount a winning campaign for precarious elections like the Trinity River corridor or a costly new arena.
From the archives – What are environmental degradation, fish farming and commercial fishing doing to the wild fish populations in the world’s oceans? We talked in July with Paul Greenberg, seafood and ocean authority and author of “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food” (The Penguin Press, 2010).
From the archives – Is there any way to prove the existence of the soul? Last summer we talked with David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine and author of the book “Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives” (Vintage, Paperback, 2010).
How has the sun influenced science, literature and countless cultures around the world? We’ll spend the hour with writer Richard Cohen who traveled the globe researching his new book “Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life” (Random House, 2010).
What was World War II like for the citizens of Hitler’s capital city? We’ll find out this hour with historian Roger Moorhouse who takes us from the beginning of the conflict in 1939 to the 1945 Allied European victory in his new book “Berlin at War” (Basic Books, 2010).
How geopolitically important are the Indian Ocean and the countries that surround it? Our guest this hour, Center for a New American Security Senior Fellow Robert D. Kaplan, argues for a more complete understanding of the region and its power in the 21st Century and beyond in his new book “Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and […]
