Conversations with David Lewis Archive

Buzz Aldrin – Magnificent Desolation

Original Air Date: 03-24-2010

David speaks with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon about his new books and his ideas on the future of space travel. He has two new books out including an illustrated kids book as well as a memoir, Magnificent Desolation.

Matt Beynon Rees – Israel

Original Air Date: 03-23-2010

David talks to Matt Beynon-Rees, based in Jerusalem about the current situation between Israel and the United States. Beynon-Rees is a reporter for the Global Post and a former bureau-chief for Time Magazine.

David Javerbaum – What to Expect

Original Air Date: 03-22-2010

David speaks with Daily Show producer David Javerbaum about his newest project, a guidebook for the unborn. The book is called What To Expect When You’re Expected: A Fetus’s Guide to the First Three Trimesters and it helps prepare the unborn fetus for life outside the womb.

Michael Oren – America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present

Original Air Date: 03-18-2010

Michael Oren, currently the Israeli Ambassador to the US as well as an author and Middle East expert, talks about his book Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present. The book details American intervention in the Middle East but gives a historical context to earlier American efforts towards promoting freedom and democracy in countries that might surprise people today, including Libya and Iran

Michael Oren – Israeli Ambassador to the US

Original Air Date: 03-18-2010

David Lewis talks to scholar, historian, author and now Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren. This interview actually comes from a while ago when Oren was still just a public intellectual and was out publicizing his book Power, Faith, and Fantasy: The United States in the Middle East

John Camp – Odyssey of a Derelict Gunslinger

Original Air Date: 03-16-2010

Peabody-award winning reporter and author John Camp chats with David Lewis about his exploits in the field of investigative journalism, how he helped bring down Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards and how his alcohol addiction almost cost him the whole thing.