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Dark Side:Jane Mayer July 27Jane Mayer’s “The Dark Side” captures the legacy of George W. Bush and the way it viewed the terror threat and it’s subsequent response.

America experienced an unprecedented expansion and turmoil between the years 1815 and 1848. In Waking Giant, Bancroft Prize-winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds, illuminates this period's exciting political story as well as the fascinating social and cultural movements that influenced it. He casts fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened its position internationally.

Collette Livermore - Hope Endures

A compelling chronicle of idealistic determination, rigid discipline
and shattering disillusionment.Livermore demonstrates the internal
frustration and anguish that kept her constantly questioning her role
in the world.This eventually led her to a new career from nun to doctor
and now author.

Harvey Kurtzman was both a satirical genius and comic mastermind. He
created MAD magazine and for decades pushed the envelope of comic book
writing. He was responsible for launching the career of Gloria Steinman
and for many years wrote for Playboy magazine where to this day Hugh
Hefner admits to being a fan. But who was Harvey Kurtzman? Tune in this
week to find out.

From the bestselling presidential biographer, a stirring tale of young men in old planes who achieved the "impossible.": with planes landing and taking off 90 seconds apart supplying the food and fuel and medicines to supply a city of more than two million people by air for
almost a year.

This week on The Public Eye, host Al Vuona chats with author Richard Reeves about his latest book, Daring Young Men.