Dec 14th, 2008 · An official American history describes big problems with the reconstruction of Iraq — from inflated numbers of Iraqi security forces to costs underestimated by the billions. The New York Times' James Glanz, in Baghdad, talks to Jacki Lyden about a draft of the report that's circulating in Washington and Baghdad.
Nov 25th, 2008 · Three months after the armies of Russia and Georgia clashed in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Georgians are beginning to come to terms with their disastrous military defeat. Reconstruction projects are under way, but Georgians still remain uneasy.
Oct 22nd, 2008 · Not all of the epic stories in American history are well known. Consider the lives of the first African American members of Congress. They served during the Reconstruction era, just after the Civil War. Historian Phillip Dray talks with NPR's Tony Cox about his book, Capitol Men.
Aug 11th, 2008 · Hostile womanizer, crack addict, New York Times journalist — David Carr has been all of those, sometimes simultaneously. For his memoir The Night of the Gun, Carr put on his investigative-reporter hat — to reconstruct his various sordid lives.
Jul 1st, 2008 · Super-Folks deconstructs and reconstructs the superhero genre for adult readers.
Jun 19th, 2008 · Golf champion Tiger Woods faces reconstructive surgery that will sideline him for the rest of the year. He played through the pain of a stress fracture and a badly torn knee ligament when he won this year's U.S Open.
Jun 6th, 2008 · Some Afghan-watchers worry that the West is repeating mistakes that the Soviet Union made in the 1980s when it sent troops there to prop up a communist regime. Among other issues, they say it is focusing too much on a military approach and not enough on reconstruction.
Jun 6th, 2008 · Douglas Wilder made history himself, when he became the first African-American elected governor of Virginia, and in post-reconstruction America. In 1992, Wilder ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. Wilder discusses his legendary career the personal advice he give to Obama.