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THE WORLD IN TIME
Lapham's Quarterly editor Lewis H. Lapham hosts The World In Time, a program airing Sundays on Bloomberg Radio. Opening the doors of history behind the events in the news, The World In Time features scholars and historians such as The New School’s Karl E. Meyer or Columbia’s Eric Foner discussing the events of fifty or 500 years ago, not Meet the Press politicos or This Week pundits grappling with the events of last week.
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Lapham's Quarterly editor Lewis H. Lapham hosts The World In Time, a program airing Sundays on Bloomberg Radio. Opening the doors of history behind the events in the news, The World In Time features scholars and historians such as The New School’s Karl E. Meyer or Columbia’s Eric Foner discussing the events of fifty or 500 years ago, not Meet the Press politicos or This Week pundits grappling with the events of last week.
Sundays at 10:00am on Bloomberg Radio
WBBR 1130-AM (NYC Metro)
XM Satellite Radio 129
Sirius Satellite Radio 130
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Previous Guests
PETER CLARKE
Peter Clarke is former professor of modern British history and master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is author, most recently, of The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana (Bloomsbury, 2008).
WILLIAM J. BERNSTEIN
William J. Bernstein is a financial theorist and author of A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008).
BRIAN M. FAGAN
Brian M. Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Bloomsbury, 2008).
STEVEN WALDMAN
Steven Waldman is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com and author of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Random House, 2008).
TONY JUDT
Tony Judt is Professor of History at N. Y. U. and author, most recently, of Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century (Penguin, 2008).
PETER LINEBAUGH
Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo and author, most recently, of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All (University of California, 2008).
KENNETH C. DAVIS
Kenneth C. Davis is best-selling author of Don't Know Much About History and of the "Don't Know Much About" series for adults and children.
DAVID R. BROWN, M.D.
David R. Brown, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Staff Physician at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
MIA BAY
Mia Bay is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and and co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.
DREW GILPIN FAUST
Drew Gilpin Faust is President of Harvard University and author, most recently, of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 2008).
LEONARD RICHARDS
Leonard Richards is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author, most recently, of The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (Knopf, 2007).
RON GLASSER, M.D.
Ron Glasser, M.D., is author of 365 Days and, most recently, Wounded: Vietnam/Iraq (George Braziller, 2006).
TOM BROKAW
Tom Brokaw is legendary former anchor of NBC Nightly News and author, most recently, of Boom!: Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (Random House, 2007).
H. W. BRANDS
H. W. Brands, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and author, most recently, of The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar (Norton, 2006).
ANTHONY LEWIS
Anthony Lewis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist for The New York Times and author, most recently, of Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Basic Books, 2008).
DAVID MCCULLOUGH
David McCullough is author of John Adams (Simon & Schuster, 2001). A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, McCullough is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history."
TARIQ ALI
Tariq Ali is a novelist, historian, political campaigner, and an editor of New Left Review. Mr. Ali is author, most recently, of The Dictatorship of Capital: Politics and Culture in the 21st Century (Verso, 2008).
JOHN M. BARRY
John M. Barry is a prize-winning and best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. In 2005 the National Academy of Sciences named The Great Influenza the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine.
JEANINE BASINGER
Jeanine Basinger is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University and author of The Star Machine (Knopf, 2007).
WILLIAM ROSEN
William Rosen is author of Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Viking, 2007).
GREGORY CLARK
Gregory Clark is Professor and Chair of Economics at U.C. Davis and author, most recently, of A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton, 2007).
DANIEL LEVERING LEWIS
Daniel Levering Lewis is Professor of History at N.Y.U. and author, most recently, of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (Tantor Media, 2008).
JUAN COLE
Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author, most recently, of Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
RHODES COOK
Rhodes Cook is editor of the Rhodes Cook Letter and author of The Presidential Nominating Process: A Place for Us? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
DAVID BLIGHT
ALEX ROSS
Alex Ross is music critic at The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
MICHAEL HUDSON
Michael Hudson is the President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author, most recently, of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press, 2003).
GREGORY RODRIGUEZ
Gregory Rodriguez is Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (Pantheon, 2007).
BRUCE DAVID FORBES
Bruce David Forbes is Professor of Religious Studies at Morningside College and author of Christmas: A Candid History (University of California, 2007).
LAURENCE BERGREEN
Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, chronicler of exploration, and author, most recently, of Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Knopf, 2007).
GARRY WILLS
Garry Wills is adjunct professor and cultural historian at Northwestern University and author, most recently, of Head and Heart: American Christianities (Penguin, 2007).
ROBERT B. STINNETT
Robert B. Stinnett is a Media Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor (Touchstone, 2001).
EDWARD J. RENEHAN JR.
Edward J. Renehan Jr. is author of Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Basic Books/Perseus, 2007) and Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons (Basic Books/Perseus, 2005).
DAVID COLE
David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and legal affairs correspondent for The Nation.
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Viking, 2006).
JOSEPH CUMMINS
Joseph Cummins is the author of Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises (Quirk, 2007).
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
Walter Russell Mead is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author, most recently, of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Knopf, 2007).
ELAINE PAGELS
Elaine Pagels is Professor of Religion at Princeton and best known as the author of The Gnostic Gospels, The Origin of Satan, and Adam, Eve and the Serpent.
BENEDICT KIERNAN
Benedict Kiernan is Professor of History and of International and Area Studies at Yale and author, most recently, of Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Yale, 2007).
BILL MCKIBBEN
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering.
JACKSON LEARS
T. J. Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of Something for Nothing: Luck in America (Viking, 2003).
SEAN CARR
Sean Carr is Director of Corporate Innovation Programs at the Darden School's Batten Institute, University of Virginia, and author, with Robert F. Bruner, of The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm (Wiley, 2007).
JAY WINIK
HAROLD EVANS
Sir Harold Evans is Editor at Large of The Week Magazine and the author of the critically acclaimed They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators (Little, Brown and Company, 2004). Evans was the President and Publisher of Random House trade group from 1990-1997.
RICHARD RHODES
Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-two books, including novels, history, journalism, and letters. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon and Schuster, 1986) won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Dark Sun (Simon and Schuster, 1995), about the development of the hydrogen bomb, was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in History.
JAMES R. GAINES
James R. Gaines is a longtime journalist and the former editor of several magazines, including Time and People, and author of Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (Fourth Estate, 2005).
NAYAN CHANDA
Nayan Chanda is Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is author, most recently, of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Yale, 2007).
MICHAEL HUDSON
Michael Hudson is the President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author, most recently, of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press, 2003).
TIM WEINER
Tim Weiner is author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday, 2007).
STEVE FRASER
Steve Fraser is author of Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life (HarperCollins, 2005).
RONALD RAPOPORT
Ronald Rapoport is John Marshall Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and author, with Walter J. Stone, of Three's a Crowd: The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and the Republican Resurgence. (Michigan, 2005).
DAVID ANDELMAN
David Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com and author of the forthcoming A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today (Wiley, 2007).
ANTHONY GOTTLIEB
Anthony Gottlieb is former Executive Editor of The Economist and author of The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (Norton, 2002).
DIANE RAVITCH
Diane Ravitch is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, research professor at New York University, non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and member of the board of the New America Foundation. She is editor, with Michael Ravitch, of The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (Oxford, 2006).
MICHAEL LIND
Michael Lind is Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of the ground-breaking study of American grand strategy, The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life (Oxford, 2006).
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, professor emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
CULLEN MURPHY
Cullen Murphy is former editor of The Atlantic Monthly and the author of Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
BARBARA EHRENREICH
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine.
WALTER ISAACSON
Walter Isaacson has served as chairman of CNN and as managing editor of Time magazine. Prior to authoring his recent biography of Albert Einstein, he chronicled the lives of Ben Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and, with Evan Thomas, the six “wise men” who would become the masters of the universe during the heady postwar days of the Truman administration.
LYNN HUNT
Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at UCLA, is former president of the American Historical Association and author of, most recently, Inventing Human Rights: A History (Norton, 2007).
ERIC FONER
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
EDWARD LUTTWAK
Edward Luttwak is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the author of Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Belknap, 1987) and Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook (Knopf, 1969).
RASHID KHALIDI
Rashid Khalidi is Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon, 2006).
JOHN MUELLER
John Mueller is Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University's Mershon Center and the author, most recently, of Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Free Press, 2006).
SIMON WINCHESTER
Simon Winchester is author, most recently, of A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (HarperCollins, 2005).
EDWARD CHANCELLOR
Edward Chancellor is author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999) .
STEPHEN F. COHEN
Stephen F. Cohen is Professor of History and Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University and a contributing editor to The Nation.
KARL E. MEYER
Karl E. Meyer is editor of World Policy Journal at The New School and author of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Counterpoint, 1999).
PETER CLARKE
Peter Clarke is former professor of modern British history and master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is author, most recently, of The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana (Bloomsbury, 2008).
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WILLIAM J. BERNSTEIN
William J. Bernstein is a financial theorist and author of A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008).
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BRIAN M. FAGAN
Brian M. Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (Bloomsbury, 2008).
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STEVEN WALDMAN
Steven Waldman is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Beliefnet.com and author of Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America (Random House, 2008).
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TONY JUDT
Tony Judt is Professor of History at N. Y. U. and author, most recently, of Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century (Penguin, 2008).
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PETER LINEBAUGH
Peter Linebaugh is Professor of History at the University of Toledo and author, most recently, of The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All (University of California, 2008).
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KENNETH C. DAVIS
Kenneth C. Davis is best-selling author of Don't Know Much About History and of the "Don't Know Much About" series for adults and children.
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DAVID R. BROWN, M.D.
David R. Brown, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Staff Physician at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
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MIA BAY
Mia Bay is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and and co-director of the Black Atlantic Seminar at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.
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DREW GILPIN FAUST
Drew Gilpin Faust is President of Harvard University and author, most recently, of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Knopf, 2008).
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LEONARD RICHARDS
Leonard Richards is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author, most recently, of The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War (Knopf, 2007).
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RON GLASSER, M.D.
Ron Glasser, M.D., is author of 365 Days and, most recently, Wounded: Vietnam/Iraq (George Braziller, 2006).
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TOM BROKAW
Tom Brokaw is legendary former anchor of NBC Nightly News and author, most recently, of Boom!: Voices of the Sixties, Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today (Random House, 2007).
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H. W. BRANDS
H. W. Brands, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and author, most recently, of The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar (Norton, 2006).
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ANTHONY LEWIS
Anthony Lewis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former columnist for The New York Times and author, most recently, of Freedom for the Thought We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment (Basic Books, 2008).
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH
David McCullough is author of John Adams (Simon & Schuster, 2001). A two-time winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, McCullough is widely referred to as a "master of the art of narrative history."
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TARIQ ALI
Tariq Ali is a novelist, historian, political campaigner, and an editor of New Left Review. Mr. Ali is author, most recently, of The Dictatorship of Capital: Politics and Culture in the 21st Century (Verso, 2008).
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JOHN M. BARRY
John M. Barry is a prize-winning and best-selling author whose books have won more than twenty awards. In 2005 the National Academy of Sciences named The Great Influenza the year’s outstanding book on science or medicine.
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JEANINE BASINGER
Jeanine Basinger is Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University and author of The Star Machine (Knopf, 2007).
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WILLIAM ROSEN
William Rosen is author of Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe (Viking, 2007).
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GREGORY CLARK
Gregory Clark is Professor and Chair of Economics at U.C. Davis and author, most recently, of A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton, 2007).
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DANIEL LEVERING LEWIS
Daniel Levering Lewis is Professor of History at N.Y.U. and author, most recently, of God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215 (Tantor Media, 2008).
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JUAN COLE
Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author, most recently, of Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
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RHODES COOK
Rhodes Cook is editor of the Rhodes Cook Letter and author of The Presidential Nominating Process: A Place for Us? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
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DAVID BLIGHT
David Blight is professor of history at Yale University and author of A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation (Harcourt, 2007).
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ALEX ROSS
Alex Ross is music critic at The New Yorker and author of The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007).
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MICHAEL HUDSON
Michael Hudson is the President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author, most recently, of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press, 2003).
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GREGORY RODRIGUEZ
Gregory Rodriguez is Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America (Pantheon, 2007).
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BRUCE DAVID FORBES
Bruce David Forbes is Professor of Religious Studies at Morningside College and author of Christmas: A Candid History (University of California, 2007).
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LAURENCE BERGREEN
Laurence Bergreen is an award-winning biographer, historian, chronicler of exploration, and author, most recently, of Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu (Knopf, 2007).
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GARRY WILLS
Garry Wills is adjunct professor and cultural historian at Northwestern University and author, most recently, of Head and Heart: American Christianities (Penguin, 2007).
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ROBERT B. STINNETT
Robert B. Stinnett is a Media Fellow at The Independent Institute in Oakland, California, and author of Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor (Touchstone, 2001).
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EDWARD J. RENEHAN JR.
Edward J. Renehan Jr. is author of Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Basic Books/Perseus, 2007) and Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons (Basic Books/Perseus, 2005).
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DAVID COLE
David Cole is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center and legal affairs correspondent for The Nation.
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NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (Viking, 2006).
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JOSEPH CUMMINS
Joseph Cummins is the author of Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises (Quirk, 2007).
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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
Walter Russell Mead is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author, most recently, of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Knopf, 2007).
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ELAINE PAGELS
Elaine Pagels is Professor of Religion at Princeton and best known as the author of The Gnostic Gospels, The Origin of Satan, and Adam, Eve and the Serpent.
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BENEDICT KIERNAN
Benedict Kiernan is Professor of History and of International and Area Studies at Yale and author, most recently, of Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Yale, 2007).
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BILL MCKIBBEN
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming, alternative energy, and the risks associated with human genetic engineering.
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JACKSON LEARS
T. J. Jackson Lears is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of Something for Nothing: Luck in America (Viking, 2003).
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SEAN CARR
Sean Carr is Director of Corporate Innovation Programs at the Darden School's Batten Institute, University of Virginia, and author, with Robert F. Bruner, of The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm (Wiley, 2007).
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JAY WINIK
Jay Winik is author of The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World (Harper, 2007).
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HAROLD EVANS
Sir Harold Evans is Editor at Large of The Week Magazine and the author of the critically acclaimed They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators (Little, Brown and Company, 2004). Evans was the President and Publisher of Random House trade group from 1990-1997.
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RICHARD RHODES
Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twenty-two books, including novels, history, journalism, and letters. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon and Schuster, 1986) won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Dark Sun (Simon and Schuster, 1995), about the development of the hydrogen bomb, was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in History.
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JAMES R. GAINES
James R. Gaines is a longtime journalist and the former editor of several magazines, including Time and People, and author of Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (Fourth Estate, 2005).
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NAYAN CHANDA
Nayan Chanda is Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He is author, most recently, of Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Yale, 2007).
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MICHAEL HUDSON
Michael Hudson is the President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author, most recently, of Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press, 2003).
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TIM WEINER
Tim Weiner is author of Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday, 2007).
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STEVE FRASER
Steve Fraser is author of Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life (HarperCollins, 2005).
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RONALD RAPOPORT
Ronald Rapoport is John Marshall Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and author, with Walter J. Stone, of Three's a Crowd: The Dynamic of Third Parties, Ross Perot, and the Republican Resurgence. (Michigan, 2005).
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DAVID ANDELMAN
David Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com and author of the forthcoming A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today (Wiley, 2007).
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ANTHONY GOTTLIEB
Anthony Gottlieb is former Executive Editor of The Economist and author of The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (Norton, 2002).
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DIANE RAVITCH
Diane Ravitch is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, research professor at New York University, non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and member of the board of the New America Foundation. She is editor, with Michael Ravitch, of The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know (Oxford, 2006).
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MICHAEL LIND
Michael Lind is Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of the ground-breaking study of American grand strategy, The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life (Oxford, 2006).
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, professor emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services.
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CULLEN MURPHY
Cullen Murphy is former editor of The Atlantic Monthly and the author of Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
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BARBARA EHRENREICH
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of fourteen books, including the New York Times bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch. A frequent contributor to Harper's and The Nation, she has been a columnist at The New York Times and Time magazine.
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WALTER ISAACSON
Walter Isaacson has served as chairman of CNN and as managing editor of Time magazine. Prior to authoring his recent biography of Albert Einstein, he chronicled the lives of Ben Franklin, Henry Kissinger, and, with Evan Thomas, the six “wise men” who would become the masters of the universe during the heady postwar days of the Truman administration.
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LYNN HUNT
Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at UCLA, is former president of the American Historical Association and author of, most recently, Inventing Human Rights: A History (Norton, 2007).
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ERIC FONER
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. He is only the second person to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians.
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EDWARD LUTTWAK
Edward Luttwak is Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies and the author of Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace (Belknap, 1987) and Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook (Knopf, 1969).
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RASHID KHALIDI
Rashid Khalidi is Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and the author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon, 2006).
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JOHN MUELLER
John Mueller is Chair of National Security Studies at Ohio State University's Mershon Center and the author, most recently, of Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them (Free Press, 2006).
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SIMON WINCHESTER
Simon Winchester is author, most recently, of A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (HarperCollins, 2005).
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EDWARD CHANCELLOR
Edward Chancellor is author of Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999) .
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STEPHEN F. COHEN
Stephen F. Cohen is Professor of History and Russian & Slavic Studies at New York University and a contributing editor to The Nation.
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KARL E. MEYER
Karl E. Meyer is editor of World Policy Journal at The New School and author of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Counterpoint, 1999).
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