Season 2
30 episodes · Oct 6, 2011
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- S2E1
Joe Klein
Oct 6, 2011Joe Klein talks about the primaries and the latest from Washington. Longtime wonks might know him best as the mysterious Anonymous, author of the novel Primary Colors, which took heavy inspiration from the Clinton administration.
- S2E2
John Heilemann
Oct 13, 2011You know John Heilemann from his New York magazine work, his TV news analysis and his mega-best-selling book Game Change, co-written with Mark Halperin. The HBO movie airs soon and a 2012 follow-up is on the way. Can't wait.
- S2E3
Margaret Hoover
Oct 20, 2011Margaret Hoover is a FOX News commentator with a magnificent Republican pedigree - but she'not your typical FOX News Republican. Her new book is American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party.
- S2E4
Andrew Card
Oct 27, 2011Andrew Card served at the highest levels of government in the last three Republican administrations, most recently as George W. Bush's Chief of Staff. He's currently acting dean of Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service.
- S2E5
Juan Williams
Nov 3, 2011Veteran political journalist Juan Williams spent 23 years at the Washington Post and eleven years as a senior news analyst at NPR. He's now a political analyst for Fox News. His new book is Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate.
- S2E6
Bill Keller
Nov 10, 2011Bill Keller stepped down as executive editor of The New York Times after more than 8 years in that highest-of-all-high-impact journalism jobs, during which time the paper won 18 Pulitzers. His next chapter: columnist and magazine writer.
- S2E7
Andy Borowitz
Nov 17, 2011Andy Borowitz is a comedian, satirist and New Yorker magazine contributor whose fake news web site, The Borowitz Report, and its accompanying social media extensions should be at the top of everyone's must-read list.
- S2E8
Jim Lehrer
Dec 1, 2011Jim Lehrer is a veteran journalist and prolific author whose measured, congenial presence on public TV has been a welcome respite from the incivility of the world for more than four decades. His latest book is Tension City.
- S2E9
Susan Orlean
Dec 8, 2011Susan Orlean is a veteran and much-loved New Yorker writer whose credits include The Orchid Thief, Saturday Night and the anthology The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-up. Her latest book is Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend.
- S2E10
Len Downie
Dec 15, 2011Len Downie spent 44 years as a reporter and editor at the Washington Post, retiring in 2008 as executive editor. During his 17 years in charge, the Post won 25 Pulitzer Prizes. Today he's a professor at ASU's Cronkite School.
- S2E11
John Hodgman
Jan 5, 2011John Hodgman is an actor, author and humorist best known for his regular contributions to The Daily Show and his star turn on those Mac vs. PC commercials. His most recent book is That is All.
- S2E12
Bill Moyers
Jan 12, 2011Bill Moyers is an icon of public media and progressive politics whose first job in journalism - as a cub reporter in Marshall, Texas - was six decades ago. His newest public television show, Moyers and Company, debuts this month.
- S2E13
Jeff Tweedy
Jan 19, 2012Jeff Tweedy is a singer, songwriter and guitarist whose critically acclaimed, creatively adventurous band Wilco has just released its eighth studio album, The Whole Love - the first on its own record label.
- S2E14
Molly Shannon
Jan 26, 2012Molly Shannon is an Emmy-nominated actress and comedian whose credits include Never Been Kissed, Kath and Kim and Saturday Night Live, where she spent six years as a cast member. Her first book is Tilly the Trickster.
- S2E15
Nick Lowe
Feb 2, 2012Nick Lowe is the self-described "headmaster of British rock" - a much-admired songwriter, musician and producer with four-plus decades of music to his name and a recently-released 13th studio album.
- S2E16
Russell Banks
Feb 19, 2012Russell Banks is an admired and accomplished American novelist whose credits include Affliction and The Sweet Hereafter - which, not insignificantly, were made into pretty terrific movies. His new novel is Lost Memory of Skin.
- S2E17
Dylan Ratigan
Feb 16, 2012Dylan Ratigan is the feisty host of a daily MSNBC talk show whose first book, Greedy Bastards, rails against what he calls government corruption and corporate communism. He's traveling the country to explore the root causes of unemployment.
- S2E18
Deepak Chopra
Mar 1, 2012Deepak Chopra is the world's most celebrated practitioner of mind-body medicine - a champion of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social wellness. He's written more than 60 books, including 19 New York Times best-sellers.
S2E19Meat Loaf
Mar 22, 2012Meat Loaf is an iconic rock and roll singer whose 1977 Bat Out of Hell is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 43 million copies sold. He's also an actor whose credits include The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Fight Club.
- S2E20
Jill Abramson
Mar 29, 2012Jill Abramson is the top editor of The New York Times - the first woman ever to serve in that capacity in the paper's 160-year history.
- S2E21
Seymour Hersh
Apr 5, 2012Seymour Hersh is a venerated investigative reporter for The New Yorker who published his first piece in the magazine 41 years ago. He's won a Pulitzer Prize, two National Magazine Awards, five George Polk Awards, and countless other honors.
- S2E22
Howard Fineman
Apr 12, 2012Howard Fineman is the editorial director of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group and an NBC and MSNBC political analyst who previously spent thirty years writing and blogging and columnizing about politics for Newsweek.
- S2E23
Elie Wiesel
Apr 19, 2012Elie Wiesel is a tireless activist, celebrated humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner. His lectures and writings on his experiences in the concentration camps have enlightened generations about the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Richard Linklater
May 3, 2012Richard Linklater is a director/screenwriter. He founded the Austin Film Society in 1985 together with his frequent collaborator Lee Daniel, and is lauded for launching and solidifying the city of Austin as a hub for independent filmmaking.
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Mark Updegrove
May 10, 2012Mark Updegrove is the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum and the author of several books on the American presidency - most recently Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency.
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Chris Isaak
May 17, 2012Chris Isaak is a stylishly retro rock musician and sometime actor who covers Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and other Sun Records legends on his most recent release, Beyond the Sun.
S2E27Robert Caro
Jun 7, 2012Robert Caro is a two-time Pulitzer winner whose multiple volumes about Lyndon Johnson have reinvigorated and reset the bar for biography. The magnificent fourth volume, The Passage of Power, has just been published.
- S2E28
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Jul 12, 2012Leonard Pitts, Jr. is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald whose latest book, Freeman, a novel set in the months following the Confederate surrender, was recently published.
- S2E29
Michael Morton
Jul 19, 2012Michael Morton spent 25 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit: the murder of his wife. In late 2011, he became the 45th person in the state of Texas to be exonerated based on DNA evidence.
S2E30Gary Johnson
Nov 6, 2012Gary Johnson is a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who's running for President of the United States as the nominee of the Libertarian Party.