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Journalist Hugh Miles is the author of Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera, the premier news channel in the Arabic-speaking world, plans to launch an English channel sometime in the next few months.

In his book Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades, British historian Christopher Tyerman challenges many assumptions about the epic conflicts that began many centuries ago. He outlines popular misconceptions in a conversation with Sheilah Kast.

Biblical scholar Jaroslav Pelikan of Yale University tells Sheilah Kast about his latest book, Whose Bible Is It?. It's an effort to track scriptural history through the ages. Pelikan concludes that Christians and Jews need each other to understand the sacred text they share.

Author Frederick Clarkson wrote the book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy And Democracy, on the growing religious movement to influence government. Clarkson has written articles on the religious right's plans to take over the Republican Party, and how elements of the right encouraged citizen militias.

The 1960s show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In turned actress Goldie Hawn into a star. Later, she starred in the films Cactus Flower, Swing Shift, and Private Benjamin. Hawn's autobiography, written with Wendy Holden, is Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud.

Nic Harcourt, host of KCRW's popular Morning Becomes Eclectic and author of Music Lust, talks about his book, along with some of the best music you've probably missed this past year.

Caroline Kennedy has compiled a new collection of poems for youngsters. The Book My Favorite Poetry for Children includes many of the poems Kennedy's parents read to her.

Author Caroline Preston's Gatsby's Girl takes what little is known about a 19-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald's love affair with a young Midwestern heiress and turns it into a work of historical fiction. Preston tells Liane Hansen about the book.

Poet Brian Turner served as a sergeant in the US Army's Third Stryker Brigade in Iraq. Here, Bullet, collects the poems through which he reflects the experience of war.

America's oldest sugar substitute has a long, tangled and not always sweet history. The gradson of the inventor of Sweet 'N Low, Rich Cohen has written a book about the family enterprise.