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Newberry Medal winning children’s author Lois Lowry on the last in “The Giver” series, and J.K. Rowling after Harry Potter.
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From Wikipedia to Kickstarter, we’ll look at the growing power of collaboration as a source of hope and progress with Steven Johnson, author of “Future Perfect.”
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We’ll talk with author Michael Chabon about America now and his hot new book, Telegraph Avenue.
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A fresh take that finds a bridge out of the Victorian Age and a tough comment on American exceptionalism.
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Tea, drugs, fortune and the 19th century high seas. We’ll look back to the exotic history of when America first met China.
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The black church plus blues plus funk meant go-go music in 1970s Washington DC. We’ll get the soundtrack and story of a tough time.
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Marilyn Monroe and Nikita Khrushchev. Mark Twain and Helen Keller. Unexpected encounters of the famous and infamous.
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Montana writer Rick Bass goes way into Africa on the trail of the 3000-pound black rhino.
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Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.
After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?
The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.
New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.
