Sonja Trom Eayrs discusses her book Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America, a story of her family farm's fight against factory farms that changed agriculture and small townsthroughout the US.

Who was James Jesus Angleton? Why is he important to understanding America in the Cold War era?

Mike Thomas, co-author with the late Bill Zehme of a new biography of Johnny Carson called Carson the Magnificent.

Sarah Vogel discusses her recent book The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm.

Paul Collier, renowned development economist and author of Left Behind:A New Economics for Neglected Places

Jonathan Weisman, an economics and labor policy reporter for the NewYork Times, discusses a recent article he wrote on how the slippage ofworking class support for Democrats predated Trump

Brian Reisinger talks about his book, Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer.

Ruth Harkin discusses her new book, When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories

John Ganz discusses his book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

Yuval Levin, director of social, cultural and constitutional studies atthe American Enterprise Institute and former domestic policy advisor toPresident George W. Bush, discusses his new book, American Covenant: Howthe Constitution Unified Our Nation--And Could Again.