First broadcast (with link to transcript / video) | Author | Book | Subject matter |
January 5, 1992 | Charles Hamilton | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. | Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
January 12, 1992 | August Heckscher | Woodrow Wilson: A Biography | Woodrow Wilson |
January 26, 1992 | Frederick Downs | No Longer Enemies, Not Yet Friends: An American Soldier Returns to Vietnam | The Vietnam War |
February 2, 1992 | Robert Cwiklik | House Rules: A Freshman Congressman's Initiation to the Backslapping, Backpedaling, and Backstabbing Ways of Washington | Peter Hoagland; The U.S. House of Representatives |
February 9, 1992 | Francis Fukuyama | The End of History and the Last Man | Liberal democracy; Sociocultural evolution |
February 16, 1992 | Al Gore | Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit | Ecology; Global Warming |
February 23, 1992 and March 1, 1992 | Richard Nixon | Seize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One-Superpower World | Foreign Policy of the United States |
March 8, 1992 | Robert Massie | Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War | HMS Dreadnought; Origins of World War I |
March 22, 1992 | Linda Chavez | Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation | History of Hispanic and Latino Americans |
March 29, 1992 | Nan Robertson | The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times | The New York Times |
April 12, 1992 | Orlando Patterson | Freedom in the Making of Western Culture | Political freedom |
April 19, 1992 | Paul Hollander | Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990 | Anti-Americanism |
April 26, 1992 | Tinsley Yarbrough | John Marshall Harlan: Great Dissenter of the Warren Court | John Marshall Harlan II |
May 3, 1992 | Earl Black and Merle Black | The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected | Southern strategy |
May 5, 1992 | Robert Remini | Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union | Henry Clay |
May 10, 1992 | David Moore | The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America | Category:Opinion polling in the United States |
May 17, 1992 | Robert Bartley | The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again | Category:1980s economic history |
May 31, 1992 | Lester Thurow | Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America | Economy of Europe; Economy of Japan; Economy of the United States; Japan–United States relations |
June 7, 1992 | R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | The Conservative Crack-Up | Conservatism in the United States |
June 14, 1992 | William Lee Miller | The Business of May Next: James Madison and the Founding | James Madison |
June 21, 1992 | John Jackley | Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress | The U.S. House of Representatives |
June 28, 1992 | David Savage | Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court | The Rehnquist Court; List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court |
July 5, 1992 | William Rehnquist | Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson | Impeachment in the United States; Samuel Chase; Impeachment of Andrew Johnson |
July 12, 1992 | Jeffrey Bell | Populism and Elitism: Politics in the Age of Equality | Populism and Elitism |
July 19, 1992 | David McCullough | Truman | Harry Truman |
July 26, 1992 | Richard Ben Cramer | What It Takes: The Way to the White House | United States presidential election, 1988 |
August 2, 1992 | Gilbert Fite | Richard B. Russell, Jr.: Senator from Georgia | Richard Russell, Jr. |
August 9, 1992 | Robert Donovan and Ray Scherer | Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Life | Television news in the United States |
August 16, 1992 | Martin Anderson | Impostors in the Temple | Higher education in the United States |
August 23, 1992 | Mickey Kaus | The End of Equality | Social equality |
August 30, 1992 | Neil Postman | Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology | Technology and society |
September 6, 1992 | Terry Eastland | Energy in the Executive: The Case for a Strong Presidency | President of the United States |
September 13, 1992 | James Billington | Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope | Russia |
September 20, 1992 | Sen. Paul Simon | Advice and Consent: Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork and the Intriguing History of the Supreme Court's Nomination Battles | Clarence Thomas; Robert Bork |
September 27, 1992 | Walter Isaacson | Kissinger: A Biography | Henry Kissinger |
October 18, 1992 | George Will | Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy | The U.S. Congress; Term limits in the United States |
October 25, 1992 | Susan Faludi | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women | Feminism in the United States |
November 8, 1992 | Barbara Hinkley and Paul Brace | Follow the Leader: Opinion Polls and the Modern Presidents | Category:Opinion polling in the United States |
November 15, 1992 | Derrick Bell | Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism | Racism in the United States |
November 22, 1992 | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | It Doesn't Take a Hero | Memoir/Autobiography; United States Army; Gulf War |
November 29, 1992 | Charles Sykes | A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character | Victim playing |
December 6, 1992 | Daniel Boorstin | The Creators | Cultural history; Creativity; History of the concept of creativity |
December 13, 1992 | Brian Kelly | Adventures in Porkland: How Washington Wastes Your Money and Why They Won't Stop | Pork barrel |
December 20, 1992 | Eric Alterman | Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics | Political journalism; Pundits |
December 27, 1992 | Michael Medved | Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values | Cinema of the United States; Popular culture; Traditional values |