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Journalist Jim Newton's new book, Justice For All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, looks at the life of the Supreme Court Justice who presided over such landmark decisions as Brown v. Board of Education. Newton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, sharing in the awards given to the Los Angeles Times for coverage of the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and the 1994 earthquake.

For years, E.L. Doctorow thought that Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's destructive march to the sea near the end of the Civil War would make for a gripping work of fiction.

Whether espousing a theory on the war in Iraq, the JFK assassination or Michael Jackson's legal troubles, comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory is not afraid to speak his mind. Gregory talks about his latest interests, including Gregory's role as a personal adviser to Michael Jackson.

Boston Celtics icon Red Auerbach is full of stories. Now retired, he still evokes moments that made legends out of Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird — and Auerbach himself. NPR's Steve Inskeep and Auerbach discuss a life in basketball.

Soprano EILEEN FARRELL. At the age of 73, she's had a long career: she began in radio, with her own show on CBS, in the forties. In the fifties she started singing opera, and has performed with every major opera company and symphony orchestra in the U.S., including five seasons with the Metroplitan Opera in New York. She has also been a professor of music at Indiana University and the University of Maine. Starting in the sixties, she began putting out albums of jazz standards. Terry spoke to her last year after the release of her album,"It's Over." (Reference Recordings RR-46CD) Farrell's latest album is called "Here" (Elba Records.) (REBROADCAST Originally aired 7

Jared Diamond is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel, which has been made into a documentary that debuts Monday. He discusses his ideas about the rise and fall of human civilizations.

NPR's Ken Rudin talks about the Connecticut race for the Senate with Republican candidate Alan Schlesinger.

Following is a transcript of the NPR/Iowa Public Radio Democratic candidates' debate, which took place at the Iowa State Historical Museum. In attendance were senators Biden, Clinton, Dodd and Obama, former senators Edwards and Gravel, and representative Kucinich.

In over 30 years of traveling, writer Eric Hansen has met some odd characters. He details some of his most memorable explorations in a new book of essays called The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer.

Miami Herald columnist and novelist CARL HIAASEN. His newest comic thriller set in South Florida is Stormy Weather, about the rip off artists and corrupt construction and insurance industries that take advantage of hurricane victims. He's also the author of five other books in the same vein: Strip Tease, a yarn, pitting a seemy Florida politician against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. Mr. Hiaasen has spun tales of environmentalists feeding tourists and senior citizens to alligators ("Tourist Season), of a villainous South Florida plastic surgeon who kills a woman during a nose job ("Skin Tight"), and about the amusement park, The Amazing Kingdom of Thrills, where one of the novel's heavies is loved to death by an amorous dolphin ("Native To