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Max Boot, author of Reagan: His Life and Legend, discusses Reagan'sstrengths and shortcomings in this book including how his upbringing inour listening area shaped his life and career.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild talks about her new book, Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
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Veteran Iowa Republican consultant David Kochel, talks about the leading candidates, roles of momentum and organization, impact of the Hamas terrorist attacks, a possible endorsement by Gov. Reynolds and much more.
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Rick Kogan, host of “After Hours With Rick Kogan” on WGN and Chicago Tribune columnist, talks about the Chicago cultural scene, the Mob, the state of journalism, the urban-rural disconnect, and what it means to be a “newspaperman.”
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John Sides, a Political Science Professor at Vanderbilt and co-author of Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy, talks about key findings in the book, our ‘calcified’ democracy, and offers further insights into the American electorate.
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Maggie Haberman has followed Donald Trump more closely over his career than most other journalists. She talks about her book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, and focuses on his rise in New York City and development of the persona he carried into the White House.
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GovernmentThis week, in Bettendorf, Iowa US Senator Chuck Grassley met with mothers and their young children to learn about the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.
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Erin Murphy, Des Moines bureau chief for The Gazette, looks at the Mike Franken big win for the Democratic nomination to face Chuck Grassley, GOP primary battles with incumbents toppled, turnout and the impact of Iowa’s new election law, the forecast for November’s election and whether the Iowa caucuses will hang on for another presidential cycle.
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Much is known about Robert Kennedy’s life prior to his brother’s assassination and the 1968 presidential campaign but less on the important period in between. On this weekend commemorating RFK’s death, John Bohrer, author of The Revolution of Robert Kennedy: From Power to Protest After JFK, talks about how RFK emerged from his brother’s shadow, won a US Senate seat, and set the stage for a campaign that still has many wondering “What if….?”
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Glenn Hurst, a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Iowa, talks about why he’s running, economic issues, health care, climate, the partisan divide, globalization and much more.
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Michael Stewart Foley, author of Citizen Cash, The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash, reveals the answer along with Johnny Cash’s continuing relevance as an American cultural icon. He talks about his book, the issues that concerned Cash, his political beliefs, and much more.
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Wells King, research director at American Compass, discusses two recent articles he authored on the bipartisan mishandling of globalization and the decline of NASCAR. There are parallels between them and King talks about the need for a fresh perspective on both.