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Peggy Noonan and her son, Eric.
Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan in her Manhattan home office, with her son Eric, aged 9.
Peggy Noonan.
Speechwriter and author Peggy Noonan is pointing at a Mass card that once belonged to playwright Tennessee Williams. For inspiration, she keeps it taped to the side of her computer monitor in her brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
William Chafe.
William Chafe wrote his biography of the late congressman Al Lowenstein (D-NY) overlooking Harmon's Harbor in Georgetown, Maine.
George Will.
George Will at work on his laptop in his Georgetown office.
Colin Powell.
Colin Powell signing a book for a C-SPAN staff member on the "Booknotes" set.
Neil Sheehan.
Neil Sheehan with boxes of archival records at the Library of Congress.
Neil Sheehan.
Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, in front of the Library of Congress. All of Mr. Sheehan's letters and research on the Vietnam War and those of John Paul Vann are housed in the Library of Congress.…
An Interview with Judith Shelton.
Economist Dr. Judith Shelton is interviewed as part of the Booknotes Oral History Project on 11 June 2014. Dr. Shelton discusses her appearance on C-SPAN's Booknotes program on 9 April 1989, where she discussed her book "The Coming Soviet Crash."
An Interview with Amity Shlaes.
Amity Shlaes is interviewed as part of the Booknotes Oral History Project on 6 March 2015. Ms. Shlaes discusses her appearance on C-SPAN's Booknotes program on 11 April 1999, where she discussed her book "The Greedy Hand".
Out of order : arrogance, corruption, and incompetence on the bench.
Investigative reporter Max Boot's expose on jurists who, in his opinion, have not lived up to the public's expectations.
Looking for history: dispatches from Latin America.
Since Alma Guillermoprieto became The New Yorker's Latin American correspondent a decade ago, she has emerged as the most informed and admired writer on her part of the world. In these superb pieces of reportage and analysis she anatomizes a region…
Breach of trust: how Washington turns outsiders into insiders.
Breach of Trust takes you directly into Coburn's closed-door coversations with policymakers and sheds new light on the rampant misuse of government funds, pork barrel shenanigans, shameless attempts to "buy" votes, and the unbelievable ways the…
