A Family Farm Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm
With Robert L. Switzer, Ph,.D. (Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, University of Illinois)
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Tough Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart
With Stefan Kanfer (Writer, Editor; Film Critic)
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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
With Wade Davis, Ph.D. (Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society; Anthropologist, Ethnobotanist, Filmmaker)
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The Sublime Engine: A Biography of the Human Heart
With Stephen Amidon (Novelist, Essayist, Critic), and , and Thomas Amidon, M.D. (Cardiologist in Kalispell, Montana)
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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
With David Kaiser, Ph.D. (the Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science; Department Head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society; and Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics, MIT)
Eisenhower The White House Years
With Jim Newton (Journalist; Editor at Large, Los Angeles Times and weekly Columnist)
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Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion
With Robert Morgan (the Kappa Alpha Professor of English, Cornell University)
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The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill
With William Adler (Writer)
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Grant’s Final Victory: Ulysses S. Grant’s Heroic Last Year
With Charles Bracelen Flood (Writer)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
With Isabel Wilkerson (Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction, Boston University; 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Writing)