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Week of January 11, 2009

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10:00The Conflict in Gaza

An update on the Gaza conflict, prospects for a cease fire, and what a durable solution for peace might look like.

Guests

James Kitfield, senior correspondent, "National Journal" magazine

Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland and author of "The Stakes: America and the Middle East" (Westview Press)

Aaron David Miller, currently a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, former Middle East negotiator and author of "The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace."

11:00Annette Gordon-Reed: "The Hemingses of Monticello" (Norton) (Rebroadcast)

A decade ago, DNA evidence corroborated Annette Gordon-Reed's controversial assertion that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave Sally Hemings. Her latest book won the National Book Award and gives the most comprehensive account to date of an American slave family, and their life at Monticello and in Paris.

Guests

Annette Gordon-Reed, professor of law at NYU; professor of history at Rutgers University; author "Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings; An American Controversy"

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