Includes index.

Contents: 1971 All things considered goes on the air -- 1972 NPR listeners reflect on the stat to the union -- 1973 Remembering LBJ -- 1974 Nixon resigns -- 1975 Celebrating Elvis and Amadeus -- 1976 America turns two hundred -- 1977 A radio lady salutes Mary Tyler Moore -- 1978 Congress debates the Panama Canal Treaty -- 1979 A nuclear accidental at Three Mile Island -- 1980 Lauren Bacall on life with and without Bogey -- 1981 President Reagan takes office -- 1982 A new disease among gay men -- 1983 Vertamae Grosvenor on developing Daufusckie Island -- 1984 Brave New Year's resolutions -- 1985 Defending Flint, Michigan -- 1986 Challenger explodes -- 1987 Living and dying with AIDS -- 1988 Sex and politics -- 1989 HIV and teenagers -- 1990 South Africans learning to live with majority rule -- 1991 Lithuania tries for independence -- 1992 Flying pigs -- 1993 Bad old movies -- 1994 An earthquake in Los Angeles --