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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

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

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

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