Milt talks with historian Stephen Ambrose about his book Nothing Like it in the World, the story of the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Milt talks with Lt. General Dave R. Palmer, former Superintendent of West Point and author of George Washington and Benedict Arnold: A Tale of Two Patriots.

Albert Salomon (of the Frankfurt School) said that “The political intellectual enters history through the door of the French Revolution.” It might also be said that systematic political murder by the State entered via the same route. We discuss that, related questions, and why and how the revolution occurred and with what lasting consequences. David Jordan, one of the major historians of that period, is our guest.

The former Secretary of Defense did another and earlier book when he finished his term as Director of the CIA. Here he is, telling Milt how the Air Defense Command almost got us into a full nuclear war with the Soviet Union because somebody goofed down under the mountain in Colorado. This is a short five-minute conversation Milt had with him in the mid-90s.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we talk with Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination. In the book, Shenon looks at the findings of the Warren Commission and the conspiracy theories surrounding Kennedy’s death, pointing out many peculiarities on the day and following days of the assassination.