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Lisa Delpit
(First Aired: May. 20, 2012)
``Multiplication is for White People: Raising Expectations For Other People's Children.''
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| Bay Buchanan
(First Aired: May. 19, 2012)
``Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected Lessons I Learned as a (Single) Mom.''
| Hal Weitzman
(First Aired: May. 20, 2012)
``Latin Lessons: How South America Stopped Listening to the United States and Started Prospering.''
| Amy Gutmann; Dennis Thompson
(First Aired: May. 20, 2012)
``The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It.''
| Noam Scheiber
(First Aired: May. 21, 2012)
``The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery.''
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| James Wright
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``Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them.''
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| Lilly Ledbetter
(First Aired: May. 19, 2012)
``Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond.''
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| Vernon Loeb
(First Aired: May. 19, 2012)
``King's Counsel: A Memoir of War, Espionage, and Diplomacy in the Middle East.''
| Josh Meyer
(First Aired: May. 12, 2012)
``The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.''
| Representative Tim Ryan
(First Aired: May. 5, 2012)
``A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit.''
| Maggie Koerth-Baker
(First Aired: May. 20, 2012)
``Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us.''
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| Peter Popham
(First Aired: May. 5, 2012)
``The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi.''
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| Jay Nordlinger
(First Aired: May. 19, 2012)
``Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, The Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World.''
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| Rodney King
(First Aired: Apr. 29, 2012)
``The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption.''
| James Wright
(First Aired: May. 26, 2012)
``Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them.''
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| John Vile
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``The Constitutional Convention of 1787: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of America's Founding.''
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| Maurie McInnis
(First Aired: May. 27, 2012)
``Slaves Waiting for Sale: Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade.''
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| Richard Epstein
(First Aired: Apr. 22, 2012)
``Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law.''
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| Guy Gugliotta
(First Aired: Apr. 22, 2012)
``Freedom's Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War.''
| Christopher Daly
(First Aired: May. 6, 2012)
``Covering America: A Narrative History of a Nation's Journalism.''
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| James Wright
(First Aired: May. 26, 2012)
``Those Who Have Borne the Battle: A History of America's Wars and Those Who Fought Them.''
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(First Aired: Sep. 12, 1998)
Non-fiction books and authors.
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| George Dyson
(First Aired: May. 5, 2012)
``Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.''
| Panel Discussion: Ruby Dee; Sonia Sanchez; Alice Walker
(First Aired: May. 5, 2012)
Zora Neale Hurston's ``Their Eyes Were Watching God.''
| Richard Posner; Scott Turow
(First Aired: Apr. 8, 2012)
Discussion on the future of authors, books, and libraries.
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| Philip White
(First Aired: Apr. 21, 2012)
``Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance.''
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(First Aired: Sep. 12, 1998)
Non-fiction books and authors.
| Neil deGrasse Tyson
(First Aired: Mar. 31, 2012)
``Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.''
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(First Aired: Mar. 10, 2012)
Timothy Stanley (``The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan.'')
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(First Aired: Mar. 11, 2012)
Paula Broadwell; Vernon Loeb (``All In: The Education of General David Petraeus.'')
| Jonathan Haidt
(First Aired: Apr. 14, 2012)
``The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion.''
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