Q&A

Harold Holzer and Amity Shlaes talk about C-SPAN's latest book, [The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best - and Worst - Chief Executives]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times columnist David Brooks discusses his book "The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

High school students from the U.S. Senate Youth Program talk about their week in Washington and what they've learned from the experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page discusses her book, [The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian Douglas Brinkley talks about his book, "American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic discusses her biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and LBJ biographer Robert Caro discusses his book, [Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iraq War veteran and former State Department official Matthew Hoh talks about his article, "Time for Peace in Afghanistan and an End to the Lies." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Penn State history professor Amy Greenberg discusses her book [Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Army veteran Eileen Rivers talks about her book "Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

West Point English professor Elizabeth Samet discusses her annotated edition of Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monica Norton, Washington Post deputy local editor, talks about James Baldwin's "If Beale Street Could Talk" and the impact the book had on her as a teenager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) talks about her memoir, [Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yale University historian Joanne Freeman discusses her book, "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Southern Methodist University's Jeffrey Engel discusses his book, [When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grace Kennan Warnecke, daughter of American diplomat George Kennan, discusses her memoir, [Daughter of the Cold War]." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Amy Wax talked about the limits of free expression on college campuses in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku talks about his book, [The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yale University Law School professor Amy Chua discusses her book, [Political Tribes], about the role that group identity plays in shaping domestic and foreign affairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prosperity gospel scholar, Kate Bowler, discusses her memoir, [Everything Happens for a Reason], in which she reflects on being diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at the age of 35. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New York Times staff photographer Doug Mills talks about some of the photos he took during the 2016 presidential race and discusses what it's like to cover President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Caitriona Perry, former Washington correspondent for RTE, Ireland's public service broadcaster, talks about her book, [In America], which chronicles her encounters with Trump supporters during the 2016 presidential election season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Musician and author Daryl Davis talks about his efforts over the past 30 years to befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan to try to understand their hatred and to convince them that they are wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allison Stanger, professor of international politics and economics at Middlebury College in Vermont, talks about students' reaction to the appearance of author Charles Murray on Campus last March. Both were attacked by students following the event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Manal Al-Sharif talks about her book, [Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Columnist and political commentator Pat Buchanan, who served as a speechwriter and senior adviser to President Nixon, discusses his book, [Nixon's White House Wars]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cumberland University history professor Mark Cheathem discusses his book, [Andrew Jackson, Southerner], and talks about the comparisons made between President Jackson and President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heather McGhee, president of Demos, talks about an August 2016 appearance on Washington Journal and how a call from a white man in North Carolina, who said he was prejudiced, started a conversation about race in America and evolved into a friendship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Johns Hopkins University political science professor Benjamin Ginsberg discusses his book, [What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions about the American People]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Strauss discusses his book, [Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Historian Candice Millard discusses her book, [Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former New York Police Department Deputy Inspector Corey Pegues discusses his book, [Once a Cop: The Street, the Law, Two Worlds, One Man], about his experiences in law enforcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Editorial cartoonist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez talks about his career and his book, [Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Edmund Morris discusses his most recent book [This Living Hand: and Other Essays], his upcoming book on Thomas Edison, his career as a biographer of presidents and other notable figures, and how he approaches his craft as a writer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author Robert Dallek talks about his recently released historical narrative, "Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House." Dallek describes his book as taking an inside look at the brain trust surrounding President Kennedy's administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bloomberg correspondent and author Amity Shlaes talks about her biography of President Calvin Coolidge, [Coolidge], in which she traces the life of the president from his early days through his presidency and ultimate return to New England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former Justice John Paul Stevens discusses his memoir detailing the workings of the Supreme Court, including his personal views of and interactions with the five most recent chief justices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Doar, former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, talked about his involvement in several major civil rights events during the 1960s. In 1962, he worked to gain the entry of James Meredith into the then-segregated University of Mississippi. In 1963, he confronted and calmed protesters in Jackson, Mississippi, after the assassination of Medgar Evers. He also prosecuted and convicted many individuals on federal civil rights violations including those accused of killing three Mississippi civil rights workers, which was later depicted in movie [Mississippi Burning]. In 1974, he became chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee's investigation of Watergate and helped to prepare articles of impeachment against President Nixon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this 2008 interview from C-SPAN's Q&A series, the late historian and author William Seale discusses the history of the White House and its residents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices