Terry Gross

Gates says white supremacy was born in the years after the Civil War, as white Southerners looked for ways to roll back the newly acquired rights of African-Americans. His new book is Stony the Road.

CNN legal affairs correspondent Joan Biskupic discusses the roots of Roberts' conservatism and his work for the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. Her new book is The Chief.

Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb, writes the Dear Therapist column in The Atlantic, and her new book is about her own recent experiences in therapy, as well as that of some of her patients.