David Broder of The Washington Post joins Bob to talk politics. Next, a quick search in Amazon Books for "John F. Kennedy" produces almost 55,000 results. One of the most recent - and potentially one of the more detailed - is titled Jack Kennedy: The Illustrated Life of a President featuring Intimate Photos, Personal Memorabilia, and History-making Documents.

Werner Herzog's film career began in the mid-60s and includes more than fifty films. His newest is a drama titled Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. The film is a loose remake of a 1992 film, although besides the title, Herzog says the two share little in common. Still, the director of the original, Abel Ferrara, is not happy about the new version saying, "As far as remakes go, ... I wish these people die in Hell.

As Americans get ready to go shopping for the holidays, the investigative journalism website GlobalPost.com is taking a closer look at conditions for workers in some of the factories that make the hot electronic gadgets this season. Bob talks with Managing Editor Thomas Mucha about the special series, Silicon Sweatshops.

Douglas Gayeton, a multimedia artist and champion of the Slow Food movement, combined his two passions in his new book Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town. With an introduction by Alice Waters, this illustrated memoir and lesson in regional cuisine, focuses on the small villages in Tuscany where the Slow Food Movement (a back-lash against fast food) is simply a way of life. Then, Hal Holbrook is best-known for his iconic portrayal of Mark Twain.

The Omid e Mehr Center in Iran is a rare and unique facility that helps girls from the country's underclass recover after being discarded by their families and society. The Glass House is the title of a new documentary that follows the hidden lives of four girls. Bob talks with the Iranian woman who founded the center, Marjaneh Halati.

Tom Russell is a visual artist, an author and an accomplished musician. He's also a songwriter whose tunes have been covered by the likes of Johnny Cash, Guy Clark and Ramblin' Jack Elliott. But Russell isn't just an artist: he holds a masters degree in Criminology, he taught in Nigeria during a civil war, and while working as a cab driver in Queens, a chance encounter with Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead kick-started his return to the music business.

From the loveable bartender known to the world as "Woody Boyd" in the television series Cheers, to the off-color publisher of Hustler Magazine, Larry Flynt, Woody Harrelson has proven to be a highly diverse actor for more than twenty years. In his most recent film, Harrelson is teamed with actor Ben Foster as members of the Army's Casualty Notification service.

We visit the Army's billion-dollar National Training Center and meet some of the people who help prepare our troops for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Covering more than a thousand square miles of California's Mojave Desert, Ft. Irwin and the NTC includes realistic mock villages populated by role playing Iraqi nationals and military wives who aim to give the soldiers a taste of what's to come overseas. We also witness a group of Army reservists training in a "trauma lane."

Before Sonia Sotomayor and Hillary Clinton, there was Helen Gahagan Douglas, a pioneer of American politics. Douglas was the first Democratic woman elected to Congress and she ran for the US Senate in 1950 against Richard Nixon. Nixon called her "pink right down to her underwear." Douglas retaliated with the nickname "Tricky Dick" after Nixon's vicious smear tactics assured her defeat. Journalist Sally Denton has written the first biography of Douglas.

In her new book, The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood has created a dystopian world that can be read as a commentary on religion, politics, science and the environment. Atwood has authored 15 books of poetry but she's best-known for her novels including The Handmaid's Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake.