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Writer GARRY WILLS. He's analyzed the Gettysburg Address in the book, "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America." He says that speaking for only three minutes that day, Lincoln changed the history of American political thought. Wills is a presidential historian and and political scientist. He's written other books on Nixon, Reagan and Kennedy, as well as a critical profile of Ross Perot.(REBROADCAST. Originally aired 7

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Partisan" (Atheneum) by Benjamin Cheever.

1) Director of Health Policy, Department of Public Health, MATHEA (pronounced "ma-THAY-ah") FALCO. She was an advisor to Clinton, during the presidential campaign. She's written extensively about drugs, drug abuse, and drug policy. She has a new book, "The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs that Work," (Random House). Int. 2: Sociologist, and research associate at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, ELLIOTT CURRIE. He's also taught sociology and criminology at Yale and at the University of California. He's written a number of books, "Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth," and "Confronting Crime." He has a new book, "Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future," (Hill and Wang, 19 Union Square West, New York, N.Y.

Actor JAMES EARL JONES. His is one of the distinctive voices of our time, yet few people know he fights a stutter; JONES' stage work off-Broadway in Jean Genet's "The Blacks" and Athol Fugard's "The Blood Knot" lead to a Broadway success in "The Great White Way", for which JONES won a Tony. His work in August Wilson's "Fences" won him another. It took one day to record the voice track for Darth Vader in "Star Wars": a performance which lead to many other commercial voice-over projects. JONES has just released his memoirs, "Voices and Silences" (Scribners).

Actor PETER O'TOOLE. The star of "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Lion in the Winter," and "My Favorite Year," has a new biography about his early years, "Loitering with Intent." (Hyperion). (rebroadcast from 4/

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "Saturation," the new album from the band URGE OVERKILL. (G

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews a newly discovered concert from 1957 of the Thelonious Monk Quartet featuring John Coltrane, "Live at the Five Spot" (Blue Note).

The film "Silverlake Life: The View From Here" was started by filmmaker and film teacher Tom Joslin to document his and his lover's battles with AIDS. Joslin asked his former film student PETER FRIEDMAN to complete the film after Joslin's death. We'll talk with Friedman about working on "Silverlake Life," which opens the sixth season of PBS' P.O.V. series on Tuesday, Ju

Classical music critic LLOYD SCHWARTZ reviews the new Elvis Costello album (yes, you read that right), a collaboration between Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. It''s called "The Juliet Letters" (Warner

2: ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, professor of Literature at Princeton, biographer of Langston Hughes and co-author of tennis star Arthur Ashe's memoir, "Days of Grace" (Knopf). Ashe died this year at age 49 from AIDS he contracted during open heart surgery. He was the first African American tennis champion, winning the United States Open in 1968, and going on to capture three Grand Slam titles. He has remained a vital presence in the sport, and his autobiography features portraits of the great celebrities of Tennis. Ashe talks candidly in "Days of Grace" about privacy issues, the media, race and education.