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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

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

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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