This hour, we’ll talk about how courtship has evolved over the last century with Moira Weigel, author of “Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating.”
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50 Great American Places
This hour, we’ll talk about America’s must-visit stops with Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the National Museum of American History and author of “50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.”
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Lessons From Buzz Aldrin
This hour, we’ll talk with Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, about perseverance and other wisdom he’s gained in his 86 years, which he’s collected in “No Dream Is Too High: Life Lessons From a Man Who Walked on the Moon.”
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The President’s Book of Secrets
This hour, we’ll talk about how that information is gathered – and how presidents have used it through the years – with David Priess, who served as an intelligence officer in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. His new book is called “The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama.”
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A Killer In The Capital
This hour, we’ll talk about terror in the Texas capital with Texas Monthly’s Skip Hollandsworth, author of “The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer” (Henry Holt and Co.).
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In The Shadow Of The Tower
This hour, we’ll revisit the UT Tower shooting and hear the stories of ordinary people who displayed extraordinary courage, the subject of the documentary “Tower.”
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Lessons From Chinese Philosophy
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can adapt 2,000-year-old wisdom to our lives today with the author of “The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us about the Good Life.”
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The Lusitania’s Final Voyage
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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Lessons From Lyndon
This hour, we’ll talk about what Dallas Theater Center’s “All The Way” has to say about partisan gridlock and political power with its director, Kevin Moriarty, and star Brandon Potter.
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Charting A Career Path
This hour, we’ll talk with Farai Chideya about how the career path for workers isn’t as linear as it once was. She’s the author of “The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption.”
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A WWII Love Story
This hour, we’ll talk with Melody M. Miyamoto Walters on what she learned from reading her grandparents’ correspondence in Hawaii during World War II, the subject of her book “In Love and War: The World War II Courtship Letters of a Nisei Couple.”
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FDR’s Four Freedoms
This hour, in honor of Presidents’ Day, we’ll talk with Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU. He’s the editor of “The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea.”
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