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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

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

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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