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David Maraniss is an Associate Editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Washington Post. He is also the author of several books, including First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama: The Story and Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story.
Detroit's Rise and Fall … and Rise? While other people write about Detroit's bankruptcy and troubled finances, Washington Post associate editor David Maraniss wanted to honor the city where he was born. He did it by focusing on one 18-month period during the 1960's, a time that was embodied by the Motown Sound, the auto industry and civil rights. In October, Maraniss joined us to talk about his latest book, Once in a Great City .
Detroit's Rise and Fall … and Rise? While other people write about Detroit's bankruptcy and troubled finances, Washington Post associate editor David Maraniss wanted to honor the city where he was born. He did it by focusing on one 18-month period during the 1960's, a time that was embodied by the Motown Sound, the auto industry and civil rights. Maraniss joins us to talk about his latest book, Once in a Great City .
Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of JFK Much of America will stop for a moment today to observe the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination . Tens of thousands turned out for a moment of silence in Dallas, and the media hype is unavoidable. The President was gunned down in Dealey Plaza in the midst of the Cold War, at the beginning of the civil rights revolution. His presidency of less than three years had its ups and downs, but polls consistently show most Americans call it one of the greatest. Historians aren't so sure. So why is JFK so highly regarded? Why haven't negative revelations tarnished his image? We separate the man from the myth and look at how the memories of presidents are shaped by symbolism as well as historical facts.
David Maraniss on Obama In June, we interviewed David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winner at the Washington Post, also biographer of Bill Clinton . His latest is Barack Obama : the Story.
Bill Clinton to Take the Stage at the Democratic Convention Tonight, former President Bill Clinton will be the prime time speaker who nominates the current President Barack Obama for re-election. Republicans claim he'll just remind voters of better days. Is he a risky choice for prime time? Will he overshadow the man he'll nominate? We talk about a stormy relationship with the biographer of both Clinton and Obama , whose relationship is one of the most fascinating in current American politics.
Maraniss on Obama When Barack Obama's biographer finally sat down with his subject, he had learned more than the President himself knew about his ancestry and his own family. David Maraniss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Washington Post and the acclaimed biographer of former President Bill Clinton. His latest book, just out yesterday, is Barack Obama: the Story .
Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
How was the trip? President Trump's travels got less fun as he went from the Middle East to Europe.
Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.
