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George P. Shultz and John B. Shoven, authors of Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Heath Care Reform, discuss the biggest social issue of our time. George P. Shultz is Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institute and was the sixtieth U.S. Secretary of State serving from 1982 through 1989. John B. Shoven is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). This video was filmed on April 15, 2008. Film credits: Richard Townsend and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).

IWO JIMA: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific (W. W. Norton, 2008). The me who fought and survived the greatest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history. Available wherever books are sold. Visit: www.authorlarrysmith.com

In February 2008, Manil Suri (author of The Age of Shiva and The Death of Vishnu) visited the Barnes and Noble on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He answered a question from the audience about how he managed to capture the female voice in his writing.

Jerome Charyn is the author of Johnny One-Eye (W.W. Norton, 2008). He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and has received the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Paris and New York. Here is discusses his youth in the Bronx, his love for Paris, and his new novel Johnny One-Eye. Filmed at New York University, February 26, 2008.