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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Robert Greenwald supports the Obama administration but thinks they're dead wrong about Afghanistan.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer Mary Allen talks with Steve Paulson about her attempts to communicate with the spirit of the man she loved after his suicide.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Michael Lewis joins us to talk about his riveting new account of how high-frequency trading is destroying Wall Street. His new book is "Flash Boys."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Leszek Pawlowicz is a computer consultant who doubles as a professional game show contestant. He says he’s not brilliant, he just has a memory that retains facts. 

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Peter Doyle is the author of "Echo and Reverb: Fabricating Space in Popular Music Recording, 1900-1960."

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Writer and cartoonist Lynda Barry is an outspoken left-wing intellectual with an urban sensibility who now lives off the grid in rural Wisconsin.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For Jeannette Walls, one of the things she struggled with most was keeping her past a secret from just about everyone.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

For TTBOOK host Anne Strainchamps her only encounters with guns happened in the pages of crime fiction -- usually, stories featuring women. Give her a woman and a gun and she was there for 200 plus pages.   Kinsey Milhone, VI Warshawski, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew…She could name dozens of fictional female crime fighters -- but not one real-life woman detective.  

That was until she picked up historian Erika Janik’s latest, “Pistols and Petticoats.”   It’s the story of how women moved from crime solving in fiction to the real world.   

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