Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:15:42 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews webmaster@nysun.com en-us Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/77-milt-rosenberg-interviews.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/77-milt-rosenberg-interviews.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:41:12 EST In this episode, Milt interviews Michael Gerson. Michael J. Gerson is the Roger Hertog senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on issues of global health and development, religion and foreign policy, and the democracy agenda. He is the author of Heroic Conservatism (HarperOne, October 2007), a columnist syndicated with the Washington Post Writers Group, and a contributor to Newsweek. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Holocaust Memorial Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/67-milt-rosenberg-interviews-rick.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/67-milt-rosenberg-interviews-rick.html Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST In this episode, Milt interviews pulitzer prize winning author Rick Atkinson about Rick's book "The Day of Battle", writing stories from history, Dwight Eisenhower as a general, George Patton, why men go to war, Italy's liberation in World War II, what World War II would have been without Hitler and what it is like to live inside of your research for over a decade at a time. Rick Atkinson is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes. He earned his Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-now.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-now.html Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:20:33 EST If you use iTunes to manage your podcasts, please note that you can now find "Milt Rosenberg Interviews..." as a download through the iTunes Store. Subscribe to "Milt Rosenberg Interviews..." on iTunes If you do not have the iTunes software and wish to download it, there is a free download available through Apple at iTunes.com Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-john.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-john.html Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST In this episode, Milt interviews John Ferling about John's book "Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence", George Washington, why nations go to war, the battle of Bunker Hill's impact on the war, changes to the American army personnel during the course of the war and what has gone wrong with our connection to American history. John Ferling, professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia, has written on topics ranging from warfare in colonial America to the lives Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-james-1.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-james-1.html Wed, 9 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST In this episode, Milt interviews author James Pierson. Milt and James speak about James' new book "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution", what the repercussions would have been if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed in Dallas, liberalism before and after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the atmosphere of Dallas in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald's background, and the record "Camelot". James Piereson is a Senior Fellow and Director of Manhattan Institute's Center for the American University and president Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-sally.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2008/01/milt-rosenberg-interviews-sally.html Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST This week, Milt interviews author Sally Bedell Smith. They discuss her book" For Love of Politics; Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years". Sally Bedell Smith is the author of the bestselling biographies of William S. Paley, Pamela Harriman, Diana, Princess of Wales, John and Jacqueline Kennedy and Bill and Hillary Clinton. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. She was awarded a Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2007/12/milt-rosenberg-interviews-james.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2007/12/milt-rosenberg-interviews-james.html Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST This week, Milt interviews James Gaines to discuss his book "For Liberty and Glory", the relationship between Washington and Lafayette, comparing the American revolution to Waterloo, the Thomas Jefferson quote "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants", the French revolution, modern day France, Sarkozy's non-ideological pragmatism and Pierre Beaumarchais. James R. Gaines is an American journalist, author, and international publishing Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2007/12/milt-rosenberg-interviews-steven.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2007/12/milt-rosenberg-interviews-steven.html Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST This week, Milt interviews Steven Pinkner about Steven's new book "The Stuff of Thought", D.L. Austin's assertion that double positives do not make a negative yet double negatives make a positive, the use of double intensifiers, both sexual and non-sexual innuendo, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the content of human nature in Pinkner's works, political rhetoric and Bill Clinton's use of the word "is", vocabularistic differentiation, taboo words and baby names. Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Rob Blatt http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2007/12/about-milt-rosenberg.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/milt-rosenberg-interviews/2007/12/about-milt-rosenberg.html Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:00:00 EST Welcome to the New York Sun Podcast mini-series "Milt Rosenberg Interviews...". For our uninitiated listeners, we thought that a brief introduction might be needed. For over thirty years-and still going strong-Milt Rosenberg has been doing interviews with the world's most important authors, journalists, politicians, and news makers. Past guests of note include Margaret Thatcher, David McCullough, Henry Kissinger, David Mamet, Colin Powell, John Updike, Yegor Gaidar, William Safire, P.D. James,