Jeff Schechtman Interviews December 1995 to January 2018 2018 Daniel Pink When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing 1/18/18 Martin Shiel WhoWhatWhy Story on Deutsche Bank 1/17/18 Sara Zaske Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children 1/17/18 Frances Moore Lappe Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning and Connection for the America We Want 1/16/18 Martin Puchner The Written Word: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization 1/11/18 Sarah Kendzior Author /Journalist “The View From Flyover Country” 1/11/18 Gordon Whitman Stand Up! How to Get Involved, Speak Out and Win in a World on Fire 1/10/18 Brian Dear The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture 1/9/18 Valter Longo The Longevity Diet: The New Science behind Stem Cell Activation 1/9/18 Richard Haass The World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order 1/8/18 Chloe Benjamin The Immortalists: A Novel 1/5/18 2017 Morgan Simon Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change 12/20/17 Daniel Ellsberg The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a War Planner 12/19/17 Tom Kochan Shaping the Future of Work: A Handbook for Action and a New Social Contract 12/15/17 David Patrikarakos War in 140 Characters: How Social Media is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty First Century 12/14/17 Gary Taubes The Case Against Sugar 12/13/17 Luke Harding Collusion: Secret Meetins, Dirty Money and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win 12/13/17 Jake Bernstein Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite 12/13/17’ Philip Ackerman-Leist A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved its Food Heritage and… 12/12/17 Amir Husain The Sentient Machine: The Coming Ave of Artificial Intelligence 12/12/17 Mitchel Resnick Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play 12/11/17 Chuck Collins Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality 12/7/17 Matthew Walker Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams 12/7/17 John O’Brien Keeping it Halal 12/6/17 Bill Binney ThinThread 12/2/17 Jeremy Lent The Patterning Instinct: A cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning 12/1/17 Dan Golden Spy School: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit American Universities 12/1/17 Joe Hagen Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine 11/30/17 Mark Lilla The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics 11/28/17 Sally Quinn Finding Magic: A Spiritual Memoir 11/22/17 Cindy Rosenthal Ellen Stewart Presents: Fifty Years of La MaMa Experimental Theater 11/22/17 Nancy Kohen Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times 11/15/17 Helen Thorpe The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship and Hope in an American Classroom 11/15/17 Chris Matthews Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit 11/13/17 Leslie Berlin Troublemakers: How Silicon Valley Came of Age 11/10/17 Adam Rutherford A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes 11/10/17 Abigail Marsh The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In Between 11/10/17 David Hallberg A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back 11/9/17 George Grundy Death of a Nation: 9/11 and the Rise of Fascism in America 11/9/17 Robert Dallack Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life 11/8/17 !1 Sharon Wyle ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists and Awakeners Navigate Change 11/7/`7 Lia Huber Nourished: A Memoir of Food, Faith & Enduring Love 11/2/17 Jeremy Suri The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office 11/2/17 John Hecinger True Gentleman: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities 11/1/17 Kate Winkler Dawson Death In The Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog and the Strangling of a City 11/1/17 Paul Kevel Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice 10/31/17 Mathew Hoh Re: War in Afghanistan 10/31/17 David Talbot Release of JFK Files 10/27/17 Glen Harcourt The Artist, The Censor and the Nude: A Tale of Morality and Appropriation 10/27/17 Kathryn Kelly Janus Social Sartup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make of Difference 10/25/17 Kenneth Whyte Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times 10/20/17 Katy Tur Unbelievable: My Front Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History 10/19/17 John Bargh Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do 10/19/17 Griffin Dunne Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold 10/19/17 Michael Meyer The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground up 10/13/17 Charlie Sykes How the Right Lost Its Mind 10/10/17 Jennifer Egan Manhattan Beach: A Novel 10/6/17 Al Gini The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives 10/5/17 Blaine Harden The King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea 10/5/17 Yanis Varoufakis Adults in the Room 10/4/17 Ryan Gates Safe: A Novel 10/4/17 Lorie Calhoun We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age 10/4/17 Lenora Chu Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School and the Global Race to Achieve 10/2/17 Bhu Srinivassan Americana: A 400 Year History of American Capitalism 9/29/17 Adam Federman Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray 9/29/17 Kent Hartman Goodnight LA: The Rise and Fall of Classic Rock and the Untold Story from Inside The Legendary…. 9/27/17 Dr. Robert Lustig The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of our Brains 9/27/17 Alyssa Rosenberg Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War 9/21/17 Kurt Andersen Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History 9/21/17 Vanessa Grigoriadis Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power and Consent on Campus 9/20/17 Helen Epstein Another Fine Mess: America, Uganda, and the War on Terror 9/20/17 David Friend The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido 9/19/17 Sasha Abramsky Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream 9/14/17 Dr. Allen Frances Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump 9/14/17 Joyce Maynard The Best of Us: A memoir 9/13/17 Deborah Campbell Disappearance in Damascus Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War 9/12/17 David Palma Taking Charge of Cancer: What You Need to Know to Get the Best Treatment 9/8/17 John Nichols Horseman of the Trumpocalypse: A field guide to the Most Dangerous People in America 9/8/17 Robert Wright Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment 9/7/17 Shaughnessy naughty Toxic Dangers from Irma 9/7/17 Ann Powers Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music 9/5/17 Peter Kalmus Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution 8/31/17 Kate Hammer The Doll Funeral: A Novel 8/31/17 Ken Holmes/John Bateson The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death 8/30/17 Alex Urbina The Inspirational Parent 8/29/17 Gillian Thomas Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives 8/24/17 Heather Ann Thompson Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 8/23/17 Dr. Dale Bredesen The End of Alzheimer’s: Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline 8/23/17 Lucia Graves This is Sinclair 8/22/17 Peter Hellman In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire 8/16/17 Christy Coleman Director, American Civil War Museum 8/18/17 Joan Brady Alger Hiss: Framed - A New Look at the Case that Made Nixon Famous 8/16-17 Jarett Kobek The Future Won't be Long: A Novel 8/15/17 !2 George Anders You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a “Useless” Liberal Arts Education 8/9/17 Jesse Eisenger Chickenshit Chronicles 8/4/17 Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land 8/3/17 Sean McFate Deep Black: A Tom Locke Novel 8/3/17 Victoria Bruce Sellout: How Washington Gave Away America’s Technological Soul 8/2/17 Matt Richtel Dead on Arrival: A Novel 8/2/17 Phillip Caputo A Rumor of War - 40th Anniversary republication 8/1/17 Gretchen Bakke The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future 7/31/17 Rex Bradford The Mary Ferrell Foundation - Re: JFK Document Release 7/29/17 Dan Kovalik The Plot to Scapegoat Russia: How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Russia 7/27/17 Elanor Brown A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light 7/27/17 Jimmy Soni Rob Goodman A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age 7/26/17 Laura Shapiro What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories 7/25/17 Sam Kean Caesar’s Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us 7/24/17 Ed Luce The Retreat of Western Liberalism 7/20/17 Ed Hess Humility is the New Smart 7/19/17 Julie Klam The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care 7/19/17 Alex Klimberg The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace 7/18/17 Ava Siegler How Do I Explain This to My Kids? Parenting in the Age of Trump 7/14/17 Stuart Shanker Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life 7/12/17 Leda Schubert Listen: How Pete Seeger Got America Singing 7/7/17 Henry Olson The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism 7/5/17 Brian Merchant The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone 6/29/17 Peter Brannen The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand….