The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope: 1945-1953

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The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945

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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

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The Long Shadow of World War II: The Legacy of the War and its Impact on Political and Military Thinking since 1945

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When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance

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Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century

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The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020

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The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace

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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

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1939: Countdown to War

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Wilson

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1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America

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1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History

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Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

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Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote

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Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire

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The Making of the President 1960

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Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America

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The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s

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1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon--The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies

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Three Days in January: Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

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The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953

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The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

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Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II

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War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

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Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation

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In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity

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First in Line: Presidents, Vice Presidents, and the Pursuit of Power

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One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

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The Overstory

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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77 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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On Palestine

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The Book of Five Rings

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Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury

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The Secret History of the World

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death: Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, along with Barbara Bair and Dr. Philip Mackowiak, deconstruct Harrison's transformative presidential campaign and debunk the myth of what killed him after only 32 days in office.

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Dom Errichiello: Landing on Omaha beach, Normandy, on D-Day, June 7, 1944, firing in enemy pillboxes, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge and in the major offensive of Berlin, the teenage Dom Errichiello, of the US Army 1st Infantry Division, 18th Regiment was no stranger...

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Sarajevo: Nationalism: Exactly 100 years ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war

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Pandemic, propaganda and the presidency: The 1918 influenza pandemic killed more than 675,000 Americans, but President Woodrow Wilson never made a single public statement about it. Why? Here’s what happens when efforts to promote patriotism and suppress free speech collide with a deadly virus.

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The Assassination of JFK: Explained: Everyone who was alive at the time remembers the day President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas, Texas on the 22 November 1963. On this anniversary Dan gives a moment-by-moment account of the day that shocked the world and speaks to Jefferson Mo...

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Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Author Max Boot returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to talk about his book "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam"

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Demystifying China’s Economy: The Latest Data | Leland Miller: Leland Miller of China Beige Book discussed the current state of China's economy, based on fresh data from the world's largest private in-country data collection network tracking the Chinese marketplace. The data are gathered from thousands of firms...

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Inside Downing Street with Gavin Barwell: British politician Gavin Barwell served as Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May from June 2017 to July 2019, one of the most turbulent periods in recent British political history. He takes Dan through the corridors of power.

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Malcolm Gladwell: Malcolm Gladwell has sold millions of books and more recently become a podcasting titan and he joins Dan to talk about his most recent project The Bomber Mafia.

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Fiona Hill Pulls Back the Curtain on Russia and Vladimir Putin: Very few people understand Vladimir Putin, Russia, and U.S.-Russia relations better than our guest today, Fiona Hill, who became a national figure when she testified during the first impeachment of Donald Trump. We discuss Russia, Vladimir Putin, the recent demonstrations in support of Putin’s chief opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, U.S.-Russia relations since 2016, and the road ahead for the Biden administration. Fiona is now a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute and is hard at work on a new book due out in September, “There Is Nothing For You Here: Opportunity in An Age of Decline.” She previously served as Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Senior Director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. Earlier in her career, from 2006-2009, under Presidents Bush and Obama, she was an intelligence analyst for the National Intelligence Council. Fiona is also the co-author

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J. Edgar Hoover, G-Man (w/ Beverly Gage): Matt and Sam talk to historian Beverly Gage about her new biography of J. Edgar Hoover.

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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

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The Cold War battle for Berlin: Giles Milton reveals how the German capital became the frontline in a bitter diplomatic conflict between the western Allies and the Soviet Union in the wake of the Second World War.

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Christopher Miller: The War Came to Us

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Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes on Lawfare Origins and 9/11

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Rick Atkinson: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777: Author Rick Atkinson returns to the PMML to discuss his latest book titled The British Are Coming, which is the first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution.

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The Fall of the Soviet Union, with Vladislav Zubok

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How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?: Serhii Plokhy discusses the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and reveals just how close the world came to nuclear disaster.

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Fiona Hill on the War Putin Is Really Fighting: Vladimir Putin was looking for a swift invasion that would halt Ukraine’s drift toward the West, reveal NATO’s fractures and weaknesses and solidify Russia as a global power. In response, the West threatened moderate sanctions, but ultimately showed little interest in stepping between Russia and Ukraine. Then came the war, and everything changed. Russia’s invasion met with valiant Ukrainian resistance. President Volodymyr Zelensky became an international hero. NATO countries unified behind a truly punishing sanctions regime and significant military support. Russia’s attack strengthened Ukraine’s national identity — and its desire to join the European Union. A conflict that the U.S. and Europe were treating as purely strategic is now a conflict about the West’s most fundamental values. Much of this has felt hopeful, even inspiring, to those watching from the comfort of home. But it has the potential to unleash a truly terrifying spiral o

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Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents: Should we teach the presidency of Millard Fillmore? What do we lose if we don't? Historians Jean Baker and James McPherson, along with Washington Post education reporter T. Rees Shapiro, tackle these questions in our 13th episode.

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Bryan Mark Rigg, "Japan's Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II" (Knox Press, 2024): An interview with Bryan Mark Rigg

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Bryan Mark Rigg, "Japan's Holocaust: History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II" (Knox Press, 2024): An interview with Bryan Mark Rigg

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David Nasaw, "The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War" (Penguin, 2020): An interview with David Nasaw

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Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023): An interview with Nigel Biggar

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Nigel Biggar, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning" (William Collins, 2023): An interview with Nigel Biggar

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Donald F. Johnson, "Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020): An interview with Donald F. Johnson

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Christopher Capozzola: 100 Years After the Great War, Lessons in Reason: One hundred years ago, Great Britain declared war on Germany, joining in what we now refer to as World War I, a conflict which cost more than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians their lives, and shaped the the world we know today. How did...

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The Blitz: An Alternative History: Between September 1940 and May 1941, the German Luftwaffe relentlessly pounded British cities with bombs in an attempt to force the British to surrender. Ultimately whilst killing thousands and causing extensive damage the bombing offensive failed. The...

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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War: The First World War is not called the Great War for nothing. It was the single most decisive event in modern history, as well as one of the bloodiest: by the time the war ended, some nine million soldiers had been killed. It was also a historical full...

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Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020): An interview with Daniel Y. Kim