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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

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