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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

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

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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