Think from KERA

[2016-05-23 12:00:00] Many factors lead to the accomplishment of a goal: intelligence, opportunity, experience. At the top of the list, though, may be simply our desire to achieve. This hour, we’ll talk about how business leaders, top athletes and world-class artists rise to the top of their fields through sheer determination with psychologist Angela Duckworth, author of “Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance” (Scribner).

[2016-05-19 13:00:00] Since 2013, KERA has followed a group of students on the path to graduation. As they finish their junior year in high school, they’re making college and career decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. As part of KERA’s American Graduate series What’s Next For The Class Of ’17, we’ll discuss those pivotal decisions with Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Stanford dean and author of “How to Raise an Adult” (Henry Holt and Co.).

[2016-05-19 13:00:00] Since 2013, KERA has followed a group of students on the path to graduation. As they finish their junior year in high school, they're making college and career decisions that will affect the rest of their lives. As part of KERA's American Graduate series What's Next For The Class Of '17, we'll discuss those pivotal decisions with Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Stanford dean and author of "How to Raise an Adult" (Henry Holt and Co.).

[2016-05-19 12:00:00] In a book out last year, historian Ruth Goodman detailed for readers what it was like to live in Victorian England. This hour, we’ll listen back to our February conversation with Goodman about her newest book, “How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life” (Liveright), to learn about the ups and downs of English life during the reign of Henry VIII.

[2016-05-18 12:00:00] With school nearly out, many families are gearing up to take the great American road trip. This hour, we’ll talk about must-visit stops along the way with Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the National Museum of American History. His new book is called “50 Great American Places: Essential Historic Sites Across the U.S.” (Simon & Schuster), and he’s in town to talk about it tonight at the Sixth Floor Museum.

[2016-05-18 13:00:00] Siddhartha Mukherjee won a Pulitzer Prize in 2011 for his book “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.” This hour, he’ll take us from Gregor Mendel’s 19th Century experiments with pea plants to current methods of gene editing with CRISPR/Cas9. He writes about it all in his latest effort, “The Gene: An Intimate History” (Scribner).

[2016-05-17 13:00:00] Traditional thinking about addiction suggests that addicts have a brain disease or addictive personalities. This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility that alcoholics, drug abusers and compulsive gamblers may actually suffer from a learning disorder with Maia Szalavitz. She explores the idea in “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction” (St. Martin’s Press).

[2016-05-17 12:00:00] Amy Stewart’s “Girl Waits With Gun” (Mariner Books) features some of toughest female characters in recent memory – just one of the traits that made it a national best-seller. This hour, we’ll talk with Stewart about creating memorable characters – and we’ll get a preview of her next book due this fall. Stewart is in town to speak tonight at the Dallas Museum of Art for Arts and Letters Live.

[2016-05-16 13:00:00] Since the Kennedy White House, each president has received a daily dossier that includes up-to-the-minute, top-secret information. This hour, we'll talk about how that information is gathered – and how presidents have used it through the years – with David Priess, who served as an intelligence officer in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. His new book is called "The President's Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America's Presidents from Kennedy to Obama" (PublicAffairs).

[2016-05-16 13:00:00] Since the Kennedy White House, each president has received a daily dossier that includes up-to-the-minute, top-secret information. This hour, we’ll talk about how that information is gathered – and how presidents have used it through the years – with David Priess, who served as an intelligence officer in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. His new book is called “The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama” (PublicAffairs).