Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
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Author Erik Larson joins us to talk about Winston Churchill’s bold leadership style that willed his nation back from the brink.
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Graeme Wood joins us to talk about a sophisticated program in Germany seeking to solve the problems of the refugee crisis.
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This hour, we’ll talk about the disaster the Lusitania suffered at the hands of German U-boats with Erik Larson.
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It took Anthony Doerr 10 years to write his novel about a blind French girl and a German boy in exile during the Nazi occupation in France. He won a Pulitzer for it.
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We’ll talk this hour about how reunification has turned the city into one of the world’s most vibrant capitals with Peter Schneider. His new book is Berlin Now: The City After the Wall.
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