The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series

Why America Should Be Safer than It Is

As a nation, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War.

Jane Harman Makes a Hard Case for Soft Power

The current range of challenges to US security demonstrates the need for a new foreign policy approach.

Young women holding Turkish flags

Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Talk with Amanda Ripley and Garrett Graff

This book talk features Amanda Ripley, Investigative Journalist and Author with Garrett Graff, Journalist, Author, and Director, Cyber Initiatives, Aspen Digital. They will discuss Ripley’s new book, “High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out”.

Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Talk with Tanya Selvaratnam and Carrie Mae Weems

Sensitive and nuanced, written with the gripping power of a dark psychological thriller, Assume Nothing details how Tanya’s relationship devolved into abuse, how she found the strength to leave—risking her career, reputation, and life—and how she reclaimed her freedom and her voice.

Joe Biden Understands Grief—That’s a Valuable Skill Right Now

Biden’s biographer Evan Osnos shares his takeaways from 10 years spent with the president.

Joe Biden at the 2016 Ideas Festival

Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series Book Talk with Martin J. Sherwin

A groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Martin Sherwingives us a riveting explanation of the crisis itself and explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world.

Gildenhorn Book Talk with Jeffrey Rosen

This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era.