Books and authors. Television for serious readers. Heres a look at some authors recently featured on booktvs after words, our weekly Author Interview program. Manhattan Institute Senior fellow Heather Mac Donald looked at the state of policing in america. Ney that would ya holt profiled the women instrumental in the development of americas Space Program in the 1940s and 50s. And historian pamela haig looked at the history of gun ownership in america. In the coming weeks, karen greenberg, director of the center on National Security at fordham university, will report on the steps taken by the department of justice to combat terrorism since september 11th. Eric fehr will discuss his time in iraq working as an interrogator for a private military contractor. Also coming up, wall street journal columnist Kimberly Strassel will argue the political left is using scare tactics to silence conservative speech. And this weekend republican congressman darrell issa talks about his time as chairman o
I started thinking about competitive elections long ago, and i started the project thinking that i was writing as a devils advocate. I saw people assume without question the competitive elections are intrinsically good and intrinsically healthy, and i thought it was important to have somebody make the argument in the other direction. Later, go inside the Cleveland Public Librarys special collections to explore the life of harlem renaissance writer Langston Hughes and his connections to the city. During Langston Hughes time here, he lived in about five different residences. He said he lived in a lot of basements. He enrolled in Central High School which was one of the first public high schools in the country, first in the city. But first, we hear from author john gras bow sky about the history of cleveland and how transportation has shaped its identity. East boulevard and University Circle, but i wanted to look at a history, and i worked on this with my wife, diane, that looked at the i