A Look at Forum's History of Speakers
Forum 2009
-Michael Kinsley, Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Other Economic Leaders
-Gwen Ifill, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama
-Clark Hoyt, The Newspaper Crisis
-David Sanger, The Inheritance: the World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power
-Steve Roberts, The First 100 Days
-Thomas Ricks, The Gamble: General Patraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
Forum 2008
-Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
-Jan Crawford Greenberg, Supreme Conflict
-Louise Richardson, What Terrorist's Want
-Jack Nelson, Doyle McManus, Alexis Simendinger, Phil Gailey, Washington Week in Review
-Mark Shields, Paul Duke Lecture
-Rabbi Andy Baker, Confronting the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe
-Haynes Johnson, The Passing of the Old Order and the Election of 2008
-Liza Mundy, Michelle: A Biography of Michelle Obama
-Ron Brownstein, How He Won: The New Landscape of American Politics
-David Ottaway, The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and America's Tangled Relationship with Saudi Arabia
Forum 2007
-Jeff Faux, A New Era--Or Politics as Usual
-Marty and Susan Tolchin,A World Ignited: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe
-Peter Galbraith, The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
-Gloria Borger, Breaking News Inside Washington
-David Broder, The 2008 Election and Beyond: Will a Great Leader Emerge?
-Melinda Henneberger, If They Only Listened to Us
-Lou Dobbs, Exporting America
-Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Deception: Pakistan, the United States and the Secret Trades in Nuclear Weapons
Forum 2006
-Hedrick Smith, China on the Horizon
-Gwen Ifill, Why Washington Matters
-Haynes Johnson, Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
-John Hope Franklin, Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
-Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy
-Andrew Kohut, Do National Trends Still Matter in Mid-Term Elections, plus America Against the World-How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked
-Dan Wakefield, the Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate
-Jeff Faux, The Global Class War
-Georgie Anne Geyer, Cuba Post-Castro, What Comes Next
-Milton Hirsch, The Bill of Wrongs: The Constitution as a Victim of 9/11
-Jack Nelson, Al Hunt, Doyle McManus, Alexis Simendinger - Election 2006: Is Red Turning Blue?
-Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
-Gary Hart, The Courage of Our Convictions
Forum 2005
-Paul Duke, Georgie Anne Geyer, Jack Nelson, Steve Roberts, Washington Week in Review
-Seymour Hersh, Road to Abu Ghraib
-Ted Fishman, China Inc.
-Amy Goodman, The Exception to the Rulers
-Jim Wallis, God's Politics
-Caryle Murphy, Passion for Islam
-Karen Houppert, Home Fires Burning
-Jim Wooten, The Media, The Culture, The Country
-Mark Shields, Inside Washington Politics
-Bill Press, How the Republicans Stole Christmas
-Hodding Carter, The Fight for the Future of Public Broadcasting with Richard Lobo and Irwin Starr
-Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
-Gene Sperling, The Pro-Growth Progressive
Forum 2004
-Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty, Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
-Paul Duke, Janet Weaver, Richard Lobo, Waldo Proffitt, Gil Cranberg, Who Owns the News?
-Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House and the Education of Paul O'Neill
-Paul Duke, Haynes Johnson, Jack Nelson, Washington Week in Review
-Bruce Feiler, Abraham: Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
-Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice
-Gloria Feldt, The War on Choice: The Right Wing Attack on Women's Rights and How to Fight Back
Presented in Association with Planned Parenthood
-Donna Brazile, Cooking With Grease: Stirring the Pot in American Politics
-E.J. Dionne, Stand Up, Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps and the Politics of Revenge
-Bill Press, Bush Must Go! The Top Ten Reasons Why George Bush Doesn't Deserve a Second Term
-PBS Documentary: The Great Campaign of 1960--How Kennedy Beat Nixon
-PBS Documentary: How Truman Beat Dewey
-Molly Ivins, Can't Say That, Can She? Bushwhacked and Who Let the Dogs In?
Benefit For the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida
-Thomas Mann, Lida Rodriquez, Luiz Baron, Rev. Charles McKenzie, The Voting Scandals: American Disgrace
-Eric Alterman, When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and its Consequences
-Senator Dale Bumpers, Where Does America Go From Here?
-Senator George McGovern, Essential America
-Senator Bob Graham, Intelligence Matters
-Jimmy Breslin, The Church That Forgot Christ