Podcasts
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Esteemed Cambridge literary critic and historian Ruth Scurr is the author of 2006’s Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution , named by The Times of London as one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade. Her reviews regularly appear in a… more
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• Recorded Oct 13, 2015“Involved in some of the most important legal developments of recent years” ( The Financial Times ), Roberta Kaplan made history as the first lawyer to successfully defeat the Defense of Marriage Act in the U.S. Supreme Court. A partner in the… more
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• Recorded Mar 27, 2015With “a reporter’s curiosity and an uncanny instinct for the pulse of the zeitgeist” ( New York Times ), Michael Lewis is renowned for his prescient and lively nonfiction. Liar’s Poker , his semiautobiographical account of Wall Street in the 80s,… more
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• Recorded Mar 23, 2015An outspoken Democratic member of Congress from 1981 to 2013, Barney Frank is widely considered America’s most influential gay politician. Known for his scrappy eloquence, prodigious intellect, and combative zeal, he served as the chairman of the… more
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“No one can lay claim to so much influence on the shaping of foreign policy over the past 50 years as Henry Kissinger” ( The Financial Times ). A vital presence in international and national politics since the 1950s and named one of Foreign… more
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• Recorded Jun 24, 2014Award-winning journalist Virginia Morris’s book How to Care for Aging Parents is “a compassionate guide of encyclopedic proportion” ( The Washington Post ). Completely revised and expanded in an up-to-date new edition, this comprehensive resource… more
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• Recorded Dec 6, 2013"One of the nation’s most astute economic observers” and “as famous as any pop star” ( New York Times ), Alan Greenspan served as head of the Federal Reserve System from 1987-2006—a tenure spanning 18 years and four presidents—and prior to that… more
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Religion scholar Reza Aslan is the internationally bestselling author of No god but God , “an eloquent, erudite paean to Islam in all of its complicated glory” ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). The book was a finalist for the Guardian First Book… more
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The Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Cass Sunstein is the author of more than 35 books and textbooks. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The… more
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• Recorded Jul 24, 2012A senior correspondent and former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post , Rajiv Chandrasekaran is the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, “a devastating indictment of the post-invasion failures of the Bush administration” (… more
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Acid yet entertaining, Michael Lewis is a skilled chronicler of our times. He was a top bond salesman at Salomon Brothers before he left to become a writer, and Liar’s Poker, his semiautobiographical account of life on Wall Street in the 1980s,… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2009“Masterfully reported,” according to the Los Angeles Times, William D. Cohan’s House of Cards chronicles the shocking fall of Bear Stearns and the end of the Second Gilded Age on Wall Street, explaining how a combination of risky bets, corporate… more
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• Recorded Feb 19, 2009Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough narrates the story of the Texas oil industry’s four richest fortune holders in his new book, The Big Rich. Known in their day as the Big Four, Roy Cullen, H.L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid… more
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• Recorded Sep 11, 2008The subprime mortgage crisis has visited ruin on millions of people and continues to threaten the health of the U.S. and global economies. In The Subprime Solution, market expert Robert J. Shiller calls for aggressive restructuring of financial… more
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• Recorded May 7, 2008The US spends more money per capita on medical care than any other country in the world, yet tens of millions of citizens are uninsured, underinsured or uninsurable. As Americans look at ways to reinvent the system, a panel of physicians,… more
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• Recorded Feb 6, 20082008 One Book companion title Of Beetles and Angels tells the unforgettable, true story of a young boy's journey from a refugee camp in Sudan to an affluent Chicago suburb, where his family survived on welfare. Following his father's advice to… more
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A prominent CNN commentator, Lou Dobbs is the anchor and editorial director of Lou Dobbs Tonight. He writes for Money and U.S. News & World Report, and manages the Lou Dobbs Money Letter. One of America’s most popular and respected voices on… more
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• Recorded Jan 31, 2006Emmy Award-winning business reporter, business and money management columnist for Newsweek and Goodhousekeeping, Jane Bryant Quinn is the New York Times best-selling author of Making the Most of Your Money.
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