First paperback edition.

xxi, 426 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Collection of essays by various authors based on interviews originally held on the television program Booknotes.

Includes index.

Storytellers. David McCullough ; Shelby Foote ; Forrest McDonald ; James Reston, Jr. ; Edmund Morris ; Doris Kearns Goodwin ; Albert Murray ; Carlo D'Este ; Simon Schama ; Joseph Ellis ; Blanche Wiesen Cook ; Nicholas Basbanes ; Ben Yagoda ; Nathaniel Branden ; Stephen Ambrose ; Martin Gilbert ; David Levering Lewis ; bell hooks ; Monica Crowley ; Deborah Shapley ; Robert A. Caro ; Richard Reeves ; Paul Hendrickson ; Richard Norton Smith ; Clare Brandt ; James Thomas

Flexner ; Robert K. Massie ; John Keegan ; Paul Kennedy ; Francis Fukuyama ; Robert Leckie ; Stephen Carter ; Daniel Boorstin ; Stanley Weintaub ; Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; Neil Baldwin ; Robert Remini ; Dr. James Billington ; William H. Chafe ; David Remnick ; Nell Irvin Painter ; David Herbert Donald ; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; Peggy Noonan ; Charles Kuralt ; Norman Mailer -- Reporters. David Halberstam ; George Will ; James "Scotty" Reston ; Stanley Crouch ; Evan

Thomas ; Anna Quindlen ; Pete Hamill ; Elsa Walsh ; Neil Sheehan ; Peter Arnett ; William Prochnau ; Malcolm Browne ; Morley Safer ; Robert Timberg ; David Maraniss ; Lou Cannon ; Stanley Karnow ; Richard Ben Cramer ; Colonel David Hackworth ; Johanna Newman ; Nathan McCall ; Lewis Lapham ; Nan Robertson ; Howell Raines ; Andrew Ferguson ; Christopher Hitchens ; Robin Wright ; Colman McCarthy ; William F. Buckley, Jr. ; Richard Rhodes ; Michael Kelly ; Garry Wills ;

Kevin Phillips ; David Halevy ; John Leo ; Elaine Sciolino ; Hugh Pearson ; Robert Kaplan ; Thomas Friedman ; R. Emmett Tyrell ; Roger Gittines ; Jack Nelson ; Tina Rosenberg ; James B. Stewart ; Molly Moore ; Lynn Sherr ; John Hockenberry -- Public figures. Jimmy Carter ; Richard Nixon ; Al Gore ; James Baker ; Lani Guinier ; Robert Dole ; Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof ; Colin Powell ; Bill Clinton ; Robert McNamara ; Hanan Ashrawi ; Hillary Rodham Clinton ; George Shultz ;

Lewis B. Puller, Jr. ; Clark Clifford ; George Ball ; William Rehnquist ; Mikhail Gorbachev ; Dan Quayle ; Betty Friedan ; Norman Schwarzkopf ; Melba Patillo Beals ; Newt Gingrich ; Madeline Cartwright ; Linda Chavez ; Margaret Thatcher.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Interviews.

Books and reading.

Authorship.

Lamb, Brian, 1941-

Book notes

Booknotes (Television program)

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