First air date (Links to video) |
Interviewee(s) |
Interviewer(s) |
Book |
Topic of interview / Comments
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January 3, 2015 |
Chuck Todd |
Dan Balz |
The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House |
Presidency of Barack Obama
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January 10, 2015 |
Cass Sunstein |
Susan Cain |
Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter |
Group decision-making
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January 17, 2015 |
Bret Stephens |
Bob Minzesheimer |
America in Retreat |
Foreign policy of the United States
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January 24, 2015 |
Mike Huckabee |
S. E. Cupp |
God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy |
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January 31, 2015 |
April Ryan |
Ann Compton |
The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America |
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February 7, 2015 |
Toby Harnden |
Dan Lamothe |
Dead Men Risen: An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan |
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February 14, 2015 |
David Axelrod |
David Frum |
Believer: My Forty Years in Politics |
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February 21, 2015 |
Wes Moore |
Wendy Spencer |
The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters |
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February 28, 2015 |
Allan Ryskind |
Tucker Carlson |
Hollywood Traitors: Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler |
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March 7, 2015 |
David Morris |
Kayla Williams |
The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
Posttraumatic stress disorder
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March 14, 2015 |
William Bennett |
Jonah Goldberg |
Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana is Harming America |
Cannabis in the United States
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March 21, 2015 |
Eric Foner |
Edna Greene Medford |
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad |
The Underground Railroad
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March 28, 2015 |
Peter Wallison |
Sudeep Reddy |
Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again |
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April 4, 2015 |
Cornel West |
Khalil Gibran Muhammad |
The Radical King |
Martin Luther King Jr.
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April 11, 2015 |
Grover Norquist |
Stan Veuger |
End the IRS Before It Ends Us: How to Restore a Low Tax, High Growth, Wealthy America |
Internal Revenue Service
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April 18, 2015 |
Elaine Lowry Brye |
Patricia Kime |
Be Safe, Love Mom: A Military Mom’s Stories of Courage, Comfort, and Surviving Life on the Homefront |
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April 25, 2015 |
Colman McCarthy |
Medea Benjamin |
Teaching Peace |
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May 2, 2015 |
Peter Slevin |
Cassandra Clayton |
Michelle Obama: A Life |
Michelle Obama
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May 9, 2015 |
Jon Krakauer |
Katie Baker |
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town |
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May 16, 2015 |
Caroline Fredrickson |
Sabrina Schaeffer |
Under the Bus: How Working Women are Being Run Over |
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May 23, 2015 |
Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
Rodney Slater |
Move: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead |
Transportation in the United States
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May 30, 2015 |
Kenji Yoshino |
David Savage |
Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial |
Hollingsworth v. Perry
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June 6, 2015 |
Joseph Stiglitz |
Heather McGhee |
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them |
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June 13, 2015 |
Kirsten Powers |
Sharyl Attkisson |
The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech |
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June 20, 2015 |
Mona Eltahawy |
Rangita de Silva de Alwis |
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs A Sexual Revolution |
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June 27, 2015 |
Nelson Denis |
Teresite Levy |
War Against All Puerto Ricans |
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July 4, 2015 |
Carol Berkin |
Maeva Marcus |
The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties |
The U.S. Bill of Rights
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July 11, 2015 |
Charles Shields |
Neely Tucker |
Mockingbird |
Harper Lee
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July 18, 2015 |
Andrea Mays |
Jeffery Deaver |
The Millionaire and the Bard |
Henry Clay Folger, Shakespeare's First Folio
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July 25, 2015 |
Ralph Nader |
Andy Shallal |
Return to Sender |
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August 1, 2015 |
Michael Tanner |
Maya MacGuineas |
Going for Broke: Deficits, Debt, and the Entitlement Crisis |
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August 8, 2015 |
Charles Murray |
Jared Bernstein |
By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission |
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August 15, 2015 |
Claire McCaskill |
Susan Glasser |
Plenty Ladylike |
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August 22, 2015 |
Arthur Brooks |
Michael Steele |
The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier and More Prosperous America |
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August 29, 2015 |
Dan-el Padilla Peralta |
Liz Robbins |
Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League |
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September 5, 2015 |
Kathryn Edin |
Gwen Moore |
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America |
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September 12, 2015 |
Amy Klobuchar |
Susan Page |
The Senator Next Door: A Memoir from the Heartland |
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September 19, 2015 |
Joy-Ann Reid |
Michael Higginbotham |
Fracture: Barack Obama, The Clintons, and the Racial Divide |
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September 26, 2015 |
Bill O'Reilly |
Bay Buchanan |
Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency |
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
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October 3, 2015 |
Martha Kumar |
Mack McLarty |
Before the Oath: How George W. Bush and Barack Obama Managed a Transfer of Power |
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October 10, 2015 |
David Gregory |
Sally Quinn |
How's Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey |
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October 17, 2015 |
Bethany McLean |
Joe Light |
Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants |
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
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October 24, 2015 |
John Danforth |
Tim Hutchinson |
The Relevance of Religion |
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October 31, 2015 |
Sean Naylor |
Dana Priest |
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command |
Joint Special Operations Command
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November 7, 2015 |
Ben Bernanke |
Sherrod Brown |
The Courage to Act |
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November 14, 2015 |
Patrick Kennedy |
Jim McDermott |
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction |
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November 21, 2015 |
Niall Ferguson |
Carla Anne Robbins |
Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist |
Henry Kissinger
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November 28, 2015 |
Roberta Kaplan |
Zoe Tillman |
Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA |
United States v. Windsor
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December 5, 2015 |
Gilbert M. Gaul |
Tom McMillen |
Billion-Dollar Ball |
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December 12, 2015 |
Theresa Brown |
Debra Hatmaker |
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives |
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December 19, 2015 |
Sir Michael Marmot |
Christine Sow |
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World |
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December 26, 2015 |
Darcy Olsen |
Kimberly Leonard |
The Right to Try: How the Federal Government Prevents Americans from Getting the Lifesaving Treatments They Need |
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