Archive from 7/12/07 – What would motivate a “sweet, soft-spoken nurse” to begin murdering her patients? Skip Hollandsworth waited years to find out. He interviewed Nocona nurse Vickie Dawn Jackson for his July, 2007 Texas Monthly cover story “Angel of Death.” Hollandsworth joined us for an hour last month.
Archive from 7/6/07 – How are art and war related? During World War II, the Nazi’s looted European art treasures by the thousands. Author and film producer Robert M. Edsel tells the story of this theft and the subsequent Allied recovery in his book “Rescuing Da Vinci” (Laurel, 2006) and the documentary film “The Rape […]
Archive from 6/13/07 – Everyone wants to do a good job, but doctors are under constant pressure to perform perfectly. Dr. Atul Gawande knows first hand what it’s like to work under stressful conditions. The 2006 MacArthur Fellow and general surgeon at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is the author of “Better: A […]
Archive from 6/28/07 – What makes a country? What makes America what it is today? Author Andro Linklater argues that changing territorial markers and frontiers played an important role in the creation of our country’s personality. His book is “The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National […]
Archive from 5/23/07 – We’ve heard many theories and there are still questions surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963. Vincent Bugliosi, author of “Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” (Norton, 2007), joined us in May.
Archive from 6/4/07 – What does it take to be a really great President? Perhaps no one is better suited to discuss the question than historian Michael Beschloss. He joined us for an hour in June to talk about his latest work “Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989” (Simon and Schuster, […]
Archive from 5/17/07 – How do you decide how you’ll raise your kids? Will you take your parents’ advice? What about friends and what you’ve seen in the media? Michael Gurian, author of “Nurture the Nature: Understanding Your Child’s Unique Core Personality” (Jossey-Bass, 2007) joined us in May to explore the issues that parents face […]
Archive from 5/22/07 – Is adventure dead? Not according to people like John Haslett. In 1995, Haslett attempted to re-create Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Hawaii. He ended up engaged in a five-year quest that was more a struggle for survival than anything else. His book “Voyage of the Mante??o: The Education […]
Archive from 5/16/07 – Is there something wrong with religion? Famous contrarian and “devout atheist” Christopher Hitchens thinks so. The contributing editor to Vanity Fair, who has been called “one of the most brilliant journalists of our time” by the London Observer, has just published his latest book “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons […]
Archive from 5/16/07 – Imagine you’re riding in a tank covering Iraq as a journalist and suddenly, without any warning an IED explodes, causing a traumatic brain injury that nearly kills you. Now imagine getting the word back home that this has happened to your spouse. Lee and Bob Woodruff joined us in May to […]
