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Political Awakenings: Conversations with History

Political Awakenings

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. For more than 25 years, the University of California's Kreisler has been conducting hour-long interviews with "the distinguished men and women who pass through Berkeley on a daily basis" for a series he calls "Conversations with History." In this remarkable collection, Kreisler selects 20 conversations, spotlighting some of the most important activists, academics, and journalists of our generation, including Elizabeth Warren, Michael Pollan, Tariq Ali, Howard Zinn, and Oliver Stone. Having honed his craft over decades, Kreisler poses provocative, open-ended questions leagues deeper than typical sound bite-centered journalism. While discussion ranges from apartheid with Justice Albie Sachs to the Iranian revolution with Nobel Peace Prize-winning lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Kreisler also investigates the formative experiences of each subject. Offering insight into world events, as well as the life and career paths of those who work for change, this study in the art of thoughtful dissent should fascinate anyone interested in activism and world events, especially new and soon-to-be graduates.

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From the Archives

  • Ahmed Rashid
    Jun 11, 2008
  • Hanan Ashrawi
    Apr 11, 2000
  • Pranab Bardhan
    Apr 3, 2011
  • Daniel Ellsberg
    Jul 28, 1998
  • Sung-Joo Han
    Oct 29, 2003
  • Niall Ferguson
    Oct 12, 2016
  • Peter Singer
    Apr 17, 2012
  • Eugenie C. Scott
    Nov 3, 2018
  • Robert Reich
    Mar 21, 2011
  • Susan Shirk
    Jun 27, 2007
  • Garry Wills
    Feb 9, 2010
  • Samuel Lewis
    Nov 14, 1988
  • Kishore Mahbubani
    Feb 12, 2013
  • Oliver Stone
    Apr 16, 1997
  • Annette Gordon-Reed
    Sep 28, 2016
  • Kishore Mahbubani
    Feb 21, 2008
  • Guenter Burghardt
    Mar 6, 2002
  • Gideon Rose
    Oct 26, 2010
  • Michael R. Gordon
    Mar 20, 2006
  • Wolfram Hanrieder
    Apr 4, 1990
  • Linda Greenhouse
    Sep 16, 2008
  • John Kenneth Galbraith
    Mar 26, 1986
  • Ken Jacobs
    Oct 13, 1999
  • Anatol Lieven
    Oct 24, 2006
  • T.M. Scanlon
    Feb 19, 2007
  • Philip Pettit
    Apr 8, 2015
  • Martin Wolf
    Feb 18, 2009
  • Wei Jingsheng
    Nov 17, 1998
  • Oliver Stone
    Apr 21, 2016
  • Edward N. Luttwak
    Nov 4, 2007
  • Alfred L. Atherton
    Feb 27, 1986
  • Talal Asad
    Oct 1, 2008
  • Professor Paul Butler
    Nov 16, 2019
  • Nell Irvin Painter
    Nov 6, 2013
  • Jeff Hawkins
    Oct 2, 2012
  • Norman Podhoretz
    Apr 5, 1999
  • Margot Wallstrom
    Sep 29, 2008
  • Philip C. Bobbitt
    Jan 8, 2014
  • James A. Leach
    Mar 16, 2009
  • George Packer
    Jun 3, 2013
  • James Fallows
    Sep 14, 2008
  • Eva Harris
    Mar 14, 2001
  • Annabel Patterson
    Apr 9, 2008
  • Laura D’Andrea Tyson
    Jan 13, 1998
  • Didier Fassin
    Apr 12, 2016
  • Lord Carrington
    Oct 24, 1984
  • Ken Goldberg
    Apr 10, 2011
  • Hernán Reyes
    Dec 1, 1999
  • Anders Aslund
    Feb 11, 2008
  • Barry Scheck
    Jul 24, 2003
  • David Pierpont Gardner
    Oct 20, 1998
  • Pamela Constable
    Mar 28, 2005
  • Judith Herman
    Sep 20, 2000
  • Ronald M. George
    Mar 29, 2011
  • Tom Segev
    Sep 14, 2004
  • Frances Dinkelspiel
    Oct 13, 2015
  • Francis Fukuyama
    May 24, 2011
  • Neil Smelser
    Dec 5, 2005
  • Samantha Power
    Feb 25, 2008
  • Howard Berman
    Apr 6, 2014
  • James Mattis
    Mar 19, 2014
  • Harry Kreisler
    Oct 13, 1999
  • Ellen O'Kane Tauscher
    Nov 14, 2013
  • Tom Segev
    Mar 21, 2007
  • Philip Habib
    May 17, 1982
  • Father J. Bryan Hehir
    Apr 1, 1987
  • Stuart E. Eizenstat
    Apr 29, 2003
  • Edward Alden
    Nov 17, 2008
  • Ahmet C. Bozer
    Dec 2, 2014
  • Dudley Herschbach
    Sep 24, 2005
  • Maire MacEntee
    Apr 3, 2000
  • Alan K. Simpson
    Sep 16, 1997
  • Charlotte D. Jacobs
    Aug 8, 2010
  • Harold Palmer Smith
    Jan 25, 2006
  • J. Clifford Wallace
    Mar 10, 2009
  • Michael Mann
    Feb 26, 2004
  • Barry Eichengreen
    Jan 3, 2011
  • Harold Hongju Koh
    Oct 2, 2003
  • Steven Chu
    Feb 12, 2004
  • Susan Shirk
    Nov 7, 2001
  • Frank Rhodes
    Mar 30, 1999
  • John Perry
    Mar 12, 2009
  • Wendy Ewald
    Apr 1, 1998
  • Edward Luttwak
    Mar 9, 1987
  • James Gustave Speth
    Apr 1, 2008
  • John Micklethwait
    Feb 5, 2007
  • David Rieff
    Mar 10, 2003
  • Shibley Telhami
    Sep 27, 2013
  • Rory Stewart
    Apr 10, 2013
  • Gary S. Becker
    Mar 20, 2013
  • Daniel Pipes
    Feb 9, 2004
  • Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
    Mar 9, 2010
  • Ronald Steel
    Feb 29, 2004
  • Michael Walzer
    Nov 12, 2013
  • Nelson Polsby
    Sep 3, 2002
  • Roya Hakakian
    Mar 8, 2009
  • Tom Segev
    Nov 11, 2010
  • David Vogel
    Jul 10, 2007
  • Rogers M. Smith
    Sep 21, 2011
  • Federico Rampini
    Sep 24, 2002
  • Anders Mellbourn
    Apr 18, 2004
  • Vicente Fox
    Feb 7, 2013
  • Pamela Constable
    Apr 2, 2008
  • Jonathan Clarke
    Apr 4, 2005
  • Jeremy Kinsman
    Nov 20, 2008
  • Chikashi Toyoshima
    Apr 30, 2008
  • Sir David King
    Sep 14, 2005
  • Josef Joffe
    Oct 21, 2007
  • George Packer
    Mar 18, 2014
  • Barry Eichengreen
    Jan 1, 2009
  • Jacques Bouchard
    Feb 26, 2009
  • Ken Goldberg
    Aug 24, 2005
  • Allan J. Hamilton
    Mar 20, 2008
  • Eric Foner
    Sep 14, 2011
  • Edward N. Luttwak
    Jan 2, 2013
  • Joseph Wilson
    May 26, 2004
  • Craig Calhoun
    May 8, 2009
  • Lewis H. Lapham
    Oct 6, 2006
  • Joseph Tussman
    Jan 12, 2000
  • John Mearsheimer
    Apr 7, 2002
  • Josef Joffe
    Mar 22, 2000
  • John F. Lehman
    Apr 15, 1991
  • Charles H. Townes
    Feb 14, 2000
  • Robert Jervis
    Nov 16, 2005
  • Robert S. McNamara
    May 14, 1996
  • Chalmers Johnson
    Jan 28, 2004
  • Susumu Shimazono
    Apr 5, 2010
  • Allan Gotlieb
    Jan 25, 1989
  • Ron E. Hassner
    Feb 7, 2011
  • Harry Kreisler
    Apr 28, 2010
  • Earl Anthony Wayne
    Dec 12, 2004
  • Steven A. Cook
    Jan 29, 2012
  • James O. Freedman
    Apr 17, 2001
  • Ruan Zongze
    Sep 22, 2003
  • Lord Patten of Barnes
    May 7, 2015
  • Philippe Sands
    Nov 17, 2008
  • Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
    Mar 6, 2011
  • Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt
    Mar 13, 1989
  • Martin Smith
    Jan 28, 2003
  • Tanya Luhrmann
    Nov 11, 2013
  • Husseini and Beilin
    Sep 14, 1998
  • David Frum
    Jan 19, 2004
  • William Pfaff
    May 6, 1990
  • Lawrence Wilkerson
    Apr 2, 2008
  • Neil Kinnock
    Mar 8, 1994
  • E. J. Dionne,Jr.
    Mar 7, 2001
  • Noam Chomsky
    Mar 21, 2002
  • John R. Searle
    Sep 21, 1999
  • Siegfried S. Hecker
    Apr 7, 2010
  • Oronto Douglas
    Jul 6, 2010
  • Roger Daniels
    Sep 12, 2010
  • Peter Neufeld
    Apr 26, 2001
  • Samuel Bowles
    Feb 26, 2019
  • Sidney Altman
    Sep 22, 2010
  • Niall Ferguson
    Nov 2, 2003
  • Norman Cousins
    Sep 11, 1984
  • Laurent Cohen-Tanugi
    Oct 15, 2008
  • Andrew Scott Cooper
    Sep 11, 2011
  • Philip Bobbit
    Jun 8, 2011
  • Patrick Stewart
    Nov 28, 2011
  • James Mann
    Feb 13, 2005
  • Alice Karekezi
    Oct 4, 1999
  • Alexey G. Arbatov
    Mar 3, 2003
  • Harry Kreisler
    Feb 10, 2013
  • Ian Lustick
    Mar 3, 2002
  • David D. Newsom
    Jun 12, 2002
  • Harriet Mayor Fulbright
    Oct 28, 2013
  • Rajdeep Sardesai
    Nov 16, 2015
  • Joan Wallach Scott
    Feb 25, 2009
  • Scott Sagan
    Mar 8, 2011
  • Stuart Altman
    Mar 22, 2012
  • Oronto Douglas
    May 3, 2001
  • John Shattuck
    Apr 29, 1997
  • Ahmed Kathrada
    Nov 7, 1996
  • Paul Pierson
    Nov 30, 2005
  • Shashi Tharoor
    Feb 7, 1999
  • Peter Dale Scott
    Aug 7, 2007
  • John A. McCone
    Apr 20, 1988
  • Victor Davis Hanson
    Apr 1, 2004
  • Victor Davis Hanson
    Mar 13, 2006
  • Harold L. Wilensky
    Oct 28, 2002
  • Ira Lapidus
    Jan 13, 2003
  • Douglas A. Fraser
    Feb 11, 1985
  • Ernst B. Haas
    Oct 29, 2000
  • Tariq Ali
    Sep 25, 2008
  • T.V. Paul
    Apr 8, 2014
  • Steven A. Cook
    Jan 30, 2008
  • Vali Nasr
    Oct 2, 2002
  • George C. Halvorson
    Jun 9, 2010
  • Josef Joffe
    Apr 11, 2004
  • Gregory L. Schulte
    May 3, 2010
  • Svante Paabo
    Sep 9, 2014
  • Niall Ferguson
    Oct 18, 2006
  • Tariq Ali
    May 7, 2003
  • Anthony Zinni
    Apr 22, 2007
  • Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier
    Sep 24, 2008
  • Manuel Castells
    May 8, 2001
  • Lowell Bergman
    Jan 30, 2001
  • Mark Steyn
    Mar 13, 2007
  • Tom Farer
    Apr 18, 2000
  • Louise Richardson
    Sep 18, 2007
  • John Witte,Jr.
    Apr 20, 2011
  • Michael Spence
    May 22, 2011
  • Philip Gourevitch
    Feb 10, 2000
  • Mary Ann Mason
    Mar 18, 2013
  • Tom Engelhardt
    Apr 22, 2004
  • Alan Cranston
    Apr 16, 2000
  • Yegor Gaidar
    Nov 19, 1996
  • David Harvey
    Mar 1, 2004
  • Clyde Prestowitz
    Aug 8, 2005
  • General Anthony Zinni
    Mar 5, 2001
  • Paul Ekman
    Jan 13, 2004
  • Neil J. Smelser
    Mar 17, 2010
  • Olivier Roy
    Apr 9, 2002
  • Harry G. Summers
    Mar 5, 1996
  • Robert A. Scalapino
    Apr 20, 2008
  • Richard C. Lewontin
    Nov 19, 2003
  • Josef Joffe
    Apr 3, 2003
  • Leonard Shlain
    Dec 17, 2008
  • Sherry Turkle
    Feb 6, 2019
  • Mark Danner
    May 2, 1999
  • David Cole
    Feb 22, 2018
  • Hillary Mann and Flynt Leverett
    Mar 24, 2013
  • Michael Scheuer
    Mar 11, 2008
  • Ronald V. Dellums
    Feb 9, 2000
  • The Right Honorable Lord Patten of Barnes, CH
    Jan 29, 2006
  • Robert Jay Lifton
    Nov 1, 1999
  • Thomas Goltz
    Nov 16, 2003
  • Juan Guzman
    Apr 16, 2001
  • Olli Rehn
    Feb 25, 2003
  • Karsten Voigt
    Feb 15, 2001
  • Mark Leonard
    May 11, 2008
  • Judge Shelton Henderson
    Apr 28, 1998
  • Akbar Ganji
    Aug 9, 2006
  • Herbert F. York
    Feb 5, 1988
  • Perry Anderson
    Apr 26, 2001
  • John Philip Abizaid
    Mar 11, 2008
  • Nathaniel Fick
    Feb 24, 2010
  • Kenneth Boulding
    Mar 15, 1987
  • Deborah Tannen
    Oct 25, 2017
  • Robert William Fogel
    Nov 15, 2004
  • Barbara Bodine
    May 1, 2008
  • Karim Sadjadpour
    Sep 30, 2009
  • Shibley Telhami
    Nov 7, 2001
  • Michael Watts
    Jul 20, 2001
  • Pierre Schori
    Apr 19, 2004
  • Princeton Lyman
    Feb 27, 2002
  • Amartya Sen
    Mar 3, 2005
  • Josef Joffe
    Jan 19, 2000
  • Leslie H. Gelb
    Apr 5, 2009
  • Sir Brian Urquhart
    Feb 22, 2004
  • Gibor Basri
    Jun 13, 2009
  • Leon Panetta
    May 21, 2000
  • Andrew J. Bacevich
    Aug 12, 2010
  • Amira Hass
    Oct 23, 2003
  • Ira Michael Heyman
    Jul 31, 2000
  • Avner Cohen
    Jan 19, 2011
  • Michael Kinsley
    Apr 9, 2006
  • Howard Zinn
    Apr 19, 2001
  • Chalmers Johnson
    Mar 7, 2007
  • Shashi Tharoor
    Apr 6, 2015
  • Rich Cohen
    Nov 1, 2009
  • Alexandra Horowitz
    Apr 3, 2013
  • John Mearsheimer
    Sep 18, 2007
  • Sir Ralf Dahrendorf
    Apr 3, 1989
  • Daniel Benjamin
    Feb 5, 2006
  • Max Boot
    Mar 11, 2003
  • Leon Wieseltier
    Oct 23, 2012
  • Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld
    Feb 13, 2014
  • Jeremy Waldron
    Apr 22, 2009
  • Kishore Mahbubani
    Mar 11, 2005
  • John Shattuck
    Jan 12, 2004
  • Eric Stover
    Feb 15, 1999
  • Charles R. Larson
    Mar 8, 2000
  • David Hamburg
    Mar 1, 1998
  • Alexander Yakovlev
    Nov 20, 1996
  • Laura D'Andrea Tyson
    Mar 23, 2015
  • James M. McPherson
    Oct 25, 2008
  • Larry Brilliant
    Apr 16, 2006
  • Michael B. Oren
    Nov 7, 2005
  • Max Boot
    Nov 5, 2006
  • James Wright
    Feb 2, 2010
  • Stanley Cavell
    Feb 6, 2002
  • George Packer
    Nov 16, 2017
  • Stephen M. Walt
    Nov 14, 2005
  • Richard H. Solomon
    Feb 23, 2011
  • Lindsey Hilsum
    Jun 11, 2012
  • Michael Nacht
    Jan 8, 2003
  • James Dobbins
    Feb 27, 2005
  • Steven Weber
    Apr 27, 2003
  • Adam Segal
    Feb 6, 2011
  • Amy Chua
    Nov 15, 2007
  • Parag Khanna
    Mar 20, 2008
  • Jocelyn Cesari
    Dec 3, 2008
  • Leon Fuerth
    Feb 6, 2005
  • Kevin Johnson
    Feb 22, 2012
  • General James Cartwright
    Nov 26, 2012
  • Nemat Shafik
    Nov 12, 2001
  • Nayan Chanda
    May 15, 2007
  • Luc Walleyn
    Apr 15, 2003
  • Robert O. Keohane
    Mar 8, 2004
  • William Haglund
    Sep 21, 2000
  • Michael Pollan
    Dec 15, 2008
  • Merv Field
    Feb 21, 2012
  • Parag Khanna
    Apr 12, 2011
  • Amory Lovins
    Oct 27, 2008
  • Daniel Kahneman
    Feb 6, 2007
  • Arlie Hochschild
    Oct 5, 2017
  • Nathaniel Rich
    Jun 22, 2005
  • Michael Warner
    Mar 21, 2018
  • M. Ibrahim Turhan
    Oct 22, 2014
  • Michael Anastasio
    Nov 7, 2012
  • Khaled Ahmed
    Feb 18, 2002
  • Joseph S. Nye,Jr.
    Apr 7, 1998
  • A. Elizabeth Jones
    Oct 21, 2002
  • Robert M. Berdahl
    Sep 3, 1998
  • Victor F. Weisskopf
    Apr 6, 1988
  • Neil Shubin
    Mar 18, 2009
  • Kenneth Jowitt
    Dec 6, 1999
  • Christopher Patten
    Aug 9, 1989
  • Natan Sharansky
    Apr 15, 2004
  • Kwame Anthony Appiah
    Feb 5, 2015
  • Alexander Dalgarno
    Feb 27, 2003
  • Olli Rehn
    Oct 30, 2013
  • Stewart Patrick
    Apr 3, 2009
  • Hanna Holborn Gray
    Nov 16, 2009
  • Christopher Hitchens
    Apr 24, 2002
  • Stephen D. Krasner
    Oct 28, 2007
  • Bart D. Ehrman
    Apr 16, 2008
  • Zhores I. Alferov
    Apr 10, 2005
  • Nayan Chanda
    Nov 7, 2001
  • Peter Tarnoff
    Oct 12, 1999
  • John Fabian Witt
    Sep 16, 2015
  • Paul Warnke
    Oct 24, 1984
  • Harold T. Shapiro
    Mar 17, 2003
  • Thomas P.M. Barnett
    Mar 7, 2005
  • Lawrence Stark
    Aug 15, 2000
  • Lakhdar Brahimi
    Apr 4, 2005
  • Jack F. Matlock,Jr.
    Feb 12, 1997
  • Peter D. Hart
    Apr 29, 2013
  • T.V. Paul
    Oct 9, 2009
  • Victor S. Navasky
    Sep 15, 2005
  • Stephen D. Biddle
    Jan 26, 2006
  • William Cronon
    Apr 8, 2013
  • Stephen D. Krasner
    Mar 30, 2003
  • Shirin Ebadi
    May 9, 2006
  • Haynes Johnson
    Jan 30, 2002
  • Walter Russell Mead
    Feb 24, 2003
  • Yossie Hollander
    Jul 10, 2012
  • Anatol Lieven
    Apr 5, 2011
  • Michael A. Levi
    Nov 26, 2007
  • Michael Hardt
    Mar 11, 2004
  • Jaron Lanier
    Oct 2, 2005
  • Alain C. Enthoven
    Nov 17, 2010
  • Richard J. Goldstone
    Feb 16, 2011
  • Robert Gallucci
    Feb 10, 2002
  • Glenn Greenwald
    Nov 2, 2011
  • Frederick S. Wyle
    Dec 4, 2007
  • Kenneth Waltz
    Feb 9, 2003
  • Thomas E. Ricks
    Mar 15, 2011
  • William Rusher
    Apr 24, 1990
  • James Fallows
    Dec 6, 2000
  • James Fallows
    Mar 27, 2005
  • Haynes Johnson
    Oct 27, 2005
  • Norman Myers
    Nov 10, 1998
  • Trita Parsi
    Apr 9, 2012
  • Charles M. Vest
    Sep 11, 2005
  • S. David Freeman
    Sep 28, 2003
  • Tim White
    Sep 17, 2003
  • Jennifer Sims
    Feb 10, 2002
  • Ahmed Rashid
    Mar 23, 2012
  • Robert A. Pape
    Feb 15, 2006
  • Sherle R. Schwenninger
    Feb 8, 2004
  • Princeton Lyman
    Feb 15, 2006
  • Walter Russell Mead
    Oct 22, 2007
  • Robert Gallucci
    Apr 19, 2012
  • Donald Kennedy
    Nov 7, 2007
  • Norton Schwartz
    Mar 11, 2013
  • Christopher Patten
    Apr 7, 1999
  • Ahmed Rashid
    Mar 25, 2002
  • John Heilbron
    Nov 8, 2007
  • John Pomfret
    Feb 7, 2007
  • Daniel B. Rodriguez
    Mar 30, 2015
  • Phillip Bobbitt
    May 1, 2008
  • Hubert L. Dreyfus
    Nov 1, 2005
  • Stephen D. Biddle
    Nov 25, 2007
  • Jan Assmann
    Oct 8, 2015
  • Juan Cole
    Oct 19, 2005
  • Shari Eppel
    Apr 22, 2001
  • Jari Vilén
    Jan 22, 2003
  • Jack Citrin
    Jul 31, 2007
  • Abner J. Mikva
    Sep 14, 1999
  • Amy Chua
    Jan 21, 2004
  • Sir John Gurdon
    Mar 15, 2006
  • Tom Wicker
    Nov 2, 1983
  • V.S. Ramachandran
    Feb 29, 2016
  • Ian Lustick
    Apr 30, 2006
  • Robert Baer
    Jul 27, 2009
  • Chalmers Johnson
    Mar 6, 2007
  • Richard B. Freeman
    Oct 30, 2007
  • David Ward
    May 1, 2001
  • Timothy Garton Ash
    Apr 3, 1996
  • Allan Gotlieb
    Mar 20, 1985
  • Joseph S. Nye,Jr.
    Mar 23, 2011
  • Trita Parsi
    Nov 29, 2007
  • Stephen Holmes
    Feb 14, 2008
  • Peter Hayes
    Apr 17, 2003
  • John Campbell
    Apr 24, 2011
  • Sadako Ogata
    Mar 16, 1999
  • Leon Botstein
    Mar 9, 2011
  • Ian Morris
    Dec 2, 2010
  • Gilles Peress
    Apr 9, 1997
  • Richard Rosecrance
    Oct 13, 2013
  • Stewart Patrick
    Apr 2, 2009
  • Edward N. Luttwak
    Dec 7, 2009
  • Laurence R. Simon
    Nov 6, 2008
  • Galia Golan
    Oct 15, 2006
  • Howard Wolpe
    Nov 11, 1982
  • Paul Goldberger
    Apr 20, 2015
  • Yuri Slezkine
    Jul 17, 2007
  • Lawrence K. Grossman
    Sep 11, 2001
  • Mark Danner
    Jul 26, 2007
  • Gananath Obeyesekere
    Mar 18, 2003
  • Lt.Col. John A. Nagl
    Mar 4, 2015
  • Ruth Rosen
    Dec 4, 2001
  • Theda Skocpol
    Sep 18, 2012
  • Susan Shirk
    Jun 4, 2008
  • Harold Palmer Smith, Jr.
    Jan 26, 2006
  • Karim Sadjadpour
    Oct 7, 2007
  • Vitaly Naumkin
    Feb 18, 2003
  • Sir Lawrence Freedman
    Apr 10, 2018
  • J. Bradford DeLong
    Oct 4, 2007
  • Linus Pauling
    Jan 17, 1983
  • Michael Howard
    May 3, 1990
  • David M. Kennedy
    Feb 2, 2009
  • Seyla Benhabib
    Mar 17, 2004
  • Anson Chan
    Jan 26, 1997
  • Albie Sachs
    Feb 1, 1998
  • Harold Smith
    May 24, 2017
  • Antonio M. Taguba
    Feb 6, 2008
  • Daniel Yergin
    Oct 13, 2011
  • Franklin Pierce Huddle
    Jan 14, 2003
  • Frederick Crews
    Aug 23, 1999
  • Christof Koch
    Mar 23, 2006
  • Leon M. Lederman
    Oct 14, 2009
  • John Arquilla
    Mar 16, 2003
  • Shibley Telhami
    Feb 24, 2003
  • Conor Cruise O'Brien
    Apr 3, 2000
  • Robert H. Scales
    Mar 8, 2004
  • Nancy Scheper-Hughes
    Dec 13, 1999
  • Charles McCurdy
    Apr 2, 2014
  • Stephen S. Cohen
    Jan 13, 2010
  • Steven Pinker
    Feb 3, 2014
  • Lucy Jones
    Feb 11, 2016
  • Mark Danner
    May 7, 2009
  • William K. Coblentz
    Jan 20, 2010
  • Tom Farer
    Apr 15, 2007
  • Andrew J. Bacevich
    May 8, 2005
  • Samuel Scheffler
    Mar 14, 2012
  • Anatol Lieven
    May 5, 2004
  • Mark Danner
    Mar 2, 1999
  • Sebastian Mallaby
    Sep 27, 2010
  • Elizabeth Warren
    Mar 7, 2007
  • Niall Ferguson
    Oct 21, 2008
  • Geir Lundestad
    Sep 19, 2005
  • Marwan Muasher
    Mar 13, 2014
  • Tariq Ramadan
    Oct 6, 2010
  • Massimo D'Alema
    Jun 10, 2002
  • Dan Caldwell
    Sep 13, 2011
  • Studs Terkel
    Oct 28, 2003
  • Karin Sveen
    Feb 10, 2015
  • Steven W. Squyres
    May 2, 2011
  • Roy L. Caldwell
    Jun 19, 2001
  • Anita Gradin
    Feb 27, 2001
  • Gurcharan Das
    Oct 18, 2010
  • Robert Fisk
    Dec 13, 2006
  • Elliot Abrams
    Apr 19, 2017

Harry Kreisler

Harry Kreisler is the creator, executive producer and host of the Conversations with History series. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 600 interviews. The story behind Conversations with History  (See the interview conducted by Professors Jack Citrin and Robert Price)

Acknowledgements

Conversations with History has been made possible by support from the Institute of International Studies, Berkeley Graduate Lectures, the Institute of Governmental Studies, the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation, from UCTV, and from UC Berkeley's Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

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