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Monday July 31, 2006

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Week of July 31, 2006

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10:00U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East

Guest host: Susan Page

Diplomatic efforts in the current crisis and the Bush administration foreign policy.

Guests

David Frum, resident fellow, American Enterprise Institute; co-author of "An End to Evil: What's Next in the War on Terror;" former speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush (2001-02).

Ivo Daalder, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, former director for European Affairs for the National Security Council, and co-author of "America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy" (Brookings, Nov 2003)

Flynt Leverett, senior fellow and director of the Global Energy Initiative at the New America Foundation; author, "Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire;" former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council; former Middle East expert on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff; former senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.

11:00Debby Applegate: "The Most Famous Man in America" (Doubleday)

Guest host: Susan Page

A new biographer details the tumultuous life and times of abolitionist minister Henry Ward Beecher and the sex scandal that garnered more newspaper headlines than the entire Civil War.

Guests

Debby Applegate, historian and author of "The Most Famous Man in America"

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