First broadcast
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transcript / video)
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Author
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Book
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Subject matter
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January 3, 1993
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Michael Davis
and
Hunter Clark
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Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench
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Thurgood Marshall
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January 10, 1993
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Jeffrey Birnbaum
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The Lobbyists: How Influence Peddlers Get Their Way in Washington
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Lobbying in the United States
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January 17, 1993
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P.F. Bentley
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Clinton: Portrait of Victory
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Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992
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January 24, 1993
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Robert Gilbert
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The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House
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Calvin Coolidge
;
Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness
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Health issues of Dwight D. Eisenhower
;
John F. Kennedy
;
Health of Ronald Reagan
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January 31, 1993
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Benjamin Stein
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A License to Steal: The Untold Story of Michael Milken and the Conspiracy to Bilk the Nation
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Michael Milken
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February 7, 1993
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Jack Nelson
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Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews
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The Ku Klux Klan
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February 14, 1993
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Nathan Miller
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Theodore Roosevelt: A Life
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Theodore Roosevelt
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February 21, 1993
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Richard Norton Smith
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Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation
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George Washington
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February 28, 1993
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Kay Mills
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This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
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Fannie Lou Hamer
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March 6, 1993
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Alex Dragnich
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Serbs and Croats: The Struggle in Yugoslavia
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Serbs
;
Croats
;
Yugoslavia
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March 13, 1993
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Paul Kennedy
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Preparing for the Twenty-First Century
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21st century
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March 21, 1993
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Deborah Shapley
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Promise and Power: The Life and Times of Robert McNamara
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Robert McNamara
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March 28, 1993
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Michael Kelly
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Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War
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Gulf War
;
20th century history of Iraq
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April 4, 1993
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Nadine Cohodas
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Strom Thurmond and the Politics of Southern Change
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Strom Thurmond
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April 11, 1993
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Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1, 1884-1933
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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April 18, 1993
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Douglas Brinkley
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The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
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History of the United States
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April 25, 1993
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Lisa Belkin
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First, Do No Harm: The Dramatic Story of Real Doctors and Patients Making Impossible Choices at a Big-City Hospital
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Hermann Hospital
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Medical ethics
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May 2, 1993
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Marshall DeBruhl
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Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston
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Sam Houston
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May 9, 1993
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Charles Adams
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For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
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Category:History of taxation
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May 16, 1993
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Anna Quindlen
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Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
Journalism
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May 23, 1993
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George Ball
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The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present
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Israel–United States relations
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May 30, 1993
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Douglas Davis
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The Five Myths of Television Power: Or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message
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Television in the United States
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June 6, 1993
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J. Bowyer Bell
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The Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence 1967-1992
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The Troubles
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June 13, 1993
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David Brock
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The Real Anita Hill
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Anita Hill
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June 20, 1993
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Howard Kurtz
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Media Circus: The Trouble with America's Newspapers
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Newspapers in the United States
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June 27, 1993
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George Shultz
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Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
Presidency of Ronald Reagan
;
United States Secretary of State
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July 4, 1993
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Joel Krieger
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The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
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International relations
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July 11, 1993
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David Halberstam
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The Fifties
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United States in the 1950s
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July 18, 1993
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Molly Moore
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A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
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United States Marine Corps
;
Gulf War
;
War journalism
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July 25, 1993
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David Remnick
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Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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August 1, 1993
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Alexander Brook
and
Warren H. Phillips
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The Hard Way: The Odyssey of a Weekly Newspaper Editor
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Newspapers
;
Kennebunk, Maine
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August 8, 1993
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Tom Rosenstiel
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Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992
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1992 United States presidential election
;
ABC News
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August 15, 1993
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Lewis Lapham
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The Wish for Kings: Democracy at Bay
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Federal government of the United States
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August 22, 1993
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Harold Holzer
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The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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The Lincoln-Douglas debates
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August 29, 1993
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Peter Macdonald
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Giap: The Victor in Vietnam
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General Võ Nguyên Giáp
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September 5, 1993
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Joseph Ellis
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
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John Adams
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September 12, 1993
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Ronald Kessler
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The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation
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September 19, 1993
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Madeline Cartwright
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For the Children: Lessons from a Visionary Principal—How We Can Save Our Public School
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School District of Philadelphia
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Public education in the United States
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September 26, 1993
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Malcolm Browne
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Muddy Boots and Red Socks
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
War journalism
;
Vietnam War
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October 3, 1993
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Peter Skerry
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Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority
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Mexican Americans
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October 10, 1993
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Alan Brinkley
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
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The History of the United States
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October 17, 1993
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Christopher Hitchens
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For the Sake of Argument
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Christopher Hitchens's political views
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October 24, 1993
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William F. Buckley Jr.
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Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
The National Review
;
Firing Line
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October 31, 1993
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Andrew Nagorski
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The Birth of Freedom: Shaping Lives and Societies in the New Eastern Europe
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Eastern Europe
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November 7, 1993
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Charles Mee
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Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World
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Pope Leo I
and
Attila the Hun
;
Henry VIII of England
and
Francis I of France
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Hernán Cortés
and
Moctezuma II
;
Congress of Vienna
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Paris Peace Conference, 1919
;
Yalta Conference
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G7
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November 14, 1993
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Herbert Block
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Herblock: A Cartoonist's Life
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
Editorial cartoons
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November 28, 1993
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Betty Friedan
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The Fountain of Age
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Ageing
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December 5, 1993
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Margaret Thatcher
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The Downing Street Years
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
Premiership of Margaret Thatcher
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December 12, 1993
|
Richard Reeves
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President Kennedy: Profile of Power
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John F. Kennedy
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December 19, 1993
|
John Podhoretz
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Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993
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Memoir
/
Autobiography
;
Presidency of George H.W. Bush
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December 26, 1993
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Willard Sterne Randall
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Thomas Jefferson: A Life
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Thomas Jefferson
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