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2: Interview with Abraham Verghese continues.

2: Writer STEPHEN CARTER. He's a professor of constitutional law at Yale University and author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby." CARTER's newest book, "The Culture of Disbeleif: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion" (Harper Collins), argues that although the majority of Americans are religious, our law, politics, media, and universities pressure believers to trivialize their faith and treat "God as a Hobby."

Retired Astronaut and former test pilot ALAN SHEPARD. He was America's first man in space in 1961; the voyage covered 302 miles and lasted 15 minutes. Ten years later with Apollo 14, he made it to the moon, playing golf on the moon's surface. (In 1969, the Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon). Early in his space career, SHEPARD was diagnosed with an inner ear syndrome which could have ended his career. SHEPARD grounded himself in 1963 and became Chief of the Astronaut Office. Later, after a risky operation took care of his ear problem, SHEPARD returned to flight status, becoming commader of the Apollo 14. SHEPARD has co-written a new book: "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon." (Turner Publi

Film critic STEPHEN SCHIFF reviews the new film, "Widow''s Peak," starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, and Natasha Richardson.

Singer MARIANNE FAITHFULL got her start in the English music scene of 1964, when she dated Mick Jagger and had the hit song, "As Tears Go By." In the following years she had a drug addiction that almost killed her, before recovering in 1985 and releasing new albums. Her memoir, "Faithfull: An Autobiography" (Little Brown), tells her story of highs and lows with music and drugs. REV.: Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews Eric Clapton's new release, "From the Cradle."

Former First Lady, BARBARA BUSH. She's written her memoir, "Barbara Bush" (Charles Scribner's Sons). A story of a "life of privilege" she writes. The book chronicles her early life, her marriage to George Bush during World War Two at the age of 19, and the political path that took them to the White House. BARBARA BUSH also writes about a depression she fell into in the mid-1970s in which she wept each night in the arms of her husband, and had thoughts about crashing her car into a tree or oncoming auto. The depression finally lifted on its own. The memoir is based on her diaries. One reviewer writes that BUSH "casts herself mostly as enthralled bystander at her husband's ascent from local Texas politics to the White House." (CONTINUES INTO SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Psychiatrist PETER D. KRAMER. Kramer has written "Listening to Prozac" (Viking Books): an examination of the larger issues behind drugs that reshape temperament. Prozac is the most widely prescribed antidepressant today, with some four and a half million users since its introduction in 1987. Kramer raises serious questions about this "miracle mood enhancer": are we headed into an age of cosmetic pharmacology? If a pill is not used to alter an illness, but rather personality, what then is "the self"? And what are the social ramifications for women, in light of the Valium and Lithium use of the 1960's? (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 6

TERRY ANDERSON and his wife MADELEINE BASSIL. ANDERSON was held hostage for seven years in Lebanon. Madeleine was pregnant when he was abducted and gave birth to their daughter, Sulome Theresa, while her husband was in captivity. In ANDERSON's new book, "Den of Lions: Memiors of Seven Years" (Crown Publishers), Terry and Madeleine describe the challenges they were forced to face until his release in December of 1991. (This interview continues into the second half of the show.

In 1990, an American Association of American Women survey found that the self-esteem of young girls plummets during adolescence. A year later, journalist PEGGY ORENSTEIN was commissioned to do a follow-up study to this survey, which resulted in her new book, "SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap" (Doubleday). ORENSTEIN talked to girls in two junior high schools, and examined some of the factors that influnced their feelings about themselves, including schooling, family, and class.

Documentary film makers ALAN and SUSAN RAYMOND. They made documentary history with "An American Family," living for seven months with the Loud family, to film the life of a "typical" American family. The 12-part series was broadcast over PBS in 1973, and it turned out to be a portrait of a not-so-typical family, and of a family disintegrating before our eyes. The RAYMONDS' documentary "The Police Tapes," was the inspiration for the TV series, "Hill Street Blues." They filmed life in a North Philadelphia inner-city elementary school for their latest film, "I am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School." They will be joined in Terry's interview with the principal of the school, DEANNA BURNEY. ("I am the Promise," premieres on HBO Monday, October 11, at 10pm

MOVIE critic Stephen Schiff preivew the upscoming live action film, "The Flinstones".

2: Journalist RAY BONNER. He is former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and former New Yorker staff writer. He's lived in Africa from 1988 until January of this year. He has a new article in "Mother Jones," (Mar/Apr 93) about why the U.S. sent Marines into Somalia, in which he questions our role as the world's "missionary." Bonner also reported from Central America. Just recently he was exonerated for reporting on a massacre in El Salvador. Officials denied the event, but archeologists have since uncovered the mass grave. He's written two books, "Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador," (1984), and "Waltzing with a Dictator: The Marcoses and the Making of American Policy," (1987).