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In 2009, the author wrote this in the New Yorker: McAllen has another distinction, too: it is one of the most expensive health-care markets ...

CHARLIE ROSE: Felix Rohatyn is here. He is known as the man who saved New York City when it almost went bankrupt in 1975. For years he was ...

CHARLIE ROSE: John Wood is here. He is the founder of Room to Read. It is a nonprofit organization that works to promote literacy in poor c...

CHARLIE ROSE : Joseph Stalin’s reign of mass terror on the Soviet Union has been called the " other Holocaust ." Millions of men...

CHARLIE ROSE: Steve Rattner is here. He was the leader of President Obama’s taskforce on restructuring the automobile industry in the wak...

CHARLIE ROSE: Dana Milbank is here. He is a veteran political reporter and columnist for "The Washington Post." He is also the ...

CHARLIE ROSE: Robert Gottlieb is back. His publishing career spans 50 years. During that time has been editor in chief of Simon and Schu...

CHARLIE ROSE: Robert Gottlieb is back. His publishing career spans 50 years. During that time has been editor in chief of Simon and Schu...

CHARLIE ROSE: Robert Reich is here. He is professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the secretary of l...

CHARLIE ROSE: Nancy Pelosi is here. She is the speaker of the House of Representatives. The Democrats face an uphill battle in the upcom...

Ingrid Betancourt discusses her memoir 'Even Silence has an End - My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle,' the book chron...

CHARLIE ROSE: Isabel Wilkerson is here. In 1994 she became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism. Her n...

CHARLIE ROSE: David Grossman is here. He’s one of Israel’s preeminent authors. He writes both fiction and nonfiction. His novel "S...

CHARLIE ROSE: Annie Cohen-Solal is here. She is a writer, and a teacher and a culture historian. In 1985 she made a name for herself whe...

CHARLIE ROSE: Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers, the event that helped create the deepest recession sinc...

CHARLIE ROSE: Tony Blair was elected prime minister of Britain three times. In 1997 at the age of 43 he led the Labour Party to a stunnin...

CHARLIE ROSE: Tony Judt, a prominent historian and public intellectual died of ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease on August 6. He was 62 years ...

CHARLIE ROSE: Harold Ford Jr. is here. He began his political career at the age of 26 when he succeeded his father in the United States H...

CHARLIE ROSE: Christopher Hitchens is an English-born, Oxford- educated writer and journalist who has lived and worked in Washington for ...

CHARLIE ROSE: Martin Amis is here. At just 24 he published his debut novel "The Rachel Papers." He was quickly branded the enfa...