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 January 17, 2009 -
TOM FRIEDMAN
Thomas
L. Friedman, one of the world’s preeminent commentators on international
affairs, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winner. Vanity Fair has called
him “the country’s best newspaper columnist.” Mr. Friedman joined The
New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC
and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief
White House and international economics correspondents. His reporting
has covered the Middle East conflict, the end of the Cold War, U.S.
domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the
worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column,
which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to seven hundred
other newspapers worldwide. Friedman’s latest books include
Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it
Can Renew America and the international
bestseller The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First
Century. A frequent guest on programs such as Face the Nation
and Charlie Rose, Friedman appears in his own segment, “Tom’s
Journal,” on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
 February
7, 2009 - NINA TOTENBERG
Nina Totenberg is National Public Radio’s
award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly
on NPR’s critically acclaimed newsmagazines, All Things
Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.
Totenberg’s coverage of legal affairs and the Supreme Court has won
her widespread recognition. Newsweek says, “The mainstays (of
NPR) are Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
But the crème de la crème is Nina Totenberg.” She is also a regular
panelist on Inside Washington, a weekly syndicated public
affairs television program produced in the nation’s capital. In
1988, Totenberg won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver
Baton for her coverage of Supreme Court nominations. In 1991, her
ground-breaking report about University of Oklahoma Law Professor
Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence
Thomas led the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas’ Supreme
Court confirmation hearings. Totenberg has received numerous awards
and honors.
 February 28, 2009 -
JUAN WILLIAMS
Juan Williams is an Emmy Award-winning writer, and radio and television
correspondent. Williams joined Fox News in 1997 as a political
contributor. He is a regular panelist on Fox Broadcasting’s Sunday
morning public affairs program, “Fox News Sunday.” In addition,
Williams anchors weekend daytime live coverage on the Fox News Channel.
Before coming to Fox, Williams spent 23 years at the Washington Post,
where he served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House
correspondent. Williams hosted National Public Radio’s (NPR) national
call-in show “Talk of the Nation” from 2000-2001. He is currently
a senior national correspondent for NPR. The recipient of an Emmy Award
for television documentary writing, Williams also won widespread
critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including, “Politics –
The New Black Power.” Williams is also the author of the non-fiction
bestseller “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years,
1954-1965”, the companion volume to the critically acclaimed PBS
television series.
 March
21, 2009 - DAVID McCULLOUGH
David McCullough is
an American historian and bestselling author. A two-time winner of
both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, he is widely
referred to as a “master of the art of narrative history.” His
John Adams, one of the most acclaimed American biographies ever
published, hit the New York Times bestseller list at number
one and remained on the list for more than a year. A movie, based on
his book, will be shown on The Hallmark Channel later this year. To
date more than two million copies have been sold. His new book,
1776, published May 2005, tells the intensely human story of
those who marched with George Washington in the fateful year of the
Declaration of Independence. In a crowded, productive career, Mr.
McCullough has been an editor, essayist, teacher, lecturer, and
familiar presence on public television – as host of Smithsonian
World, The American Experience, and narrator of numerous
documentaries including The Civil War and Napoleon. He
is also the narrator’s voice in the movie Seabiscuit.
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