Podcasts
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Posted 13 years agoOften called the "Dean of Moderators," Jim Lehrer has presided over eleven presidential and vice-presidential debates. He is also the author of 14 novels, including Flying Crows . Mrs. Kate Lehrer is the author of several books, including… more
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(51:37 mins) • Recorded Jun 9, 2004Posted 13 years agoKatherine Dunham has been called the "Matriarch of Black Dance." A pioneer in the use of folk and ethnic choreography, her unprecedented blend of cultural anthropology with the artistry of dance produced groundbreaking forms of movement and… more
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(59:19 mins) • Recorded Jun 8, 2004Posted 13 years agoKathryn Harrison's first novel, Thicker Than Water and her second, Exposure, were both New York Times Notable Books. Her best-selling memoir, The Kiss, ignited a firestorm of controversy; the subject: Harrison's four-year sexual relationship with… more
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(54:42 mins) • Recorded Jun 3, 2004Posted 13 years agoA native of Wayne, PA, David Brooks is a senior editor of the Weekly Standard, a columnist for the New York Times, a contributing editor the Atlantic Monthly, and a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer." His best-selling book Bobos in… more
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Posted 14 years agoNobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz served as Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank, then as Chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors; he is currently Professor of Economics and Finance at… more
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61 mins • Recorded May 26, 2004Posted 13 years agoA dedicated historian of education, Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and holds the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. A former Assistant Secretary in the US Department of Education,… more
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Posted 13 years agoWinner of the National Book Award for his first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Ron Chernow has been called in the New York Times "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen… more
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77 mins • Recorded May 12, 2004Posted 13 years agoCharles Ellis is an expert on investment management. For thirty years, he was Managing Partner of Greenwich Associates, the leading worldwide strategy consultant to the investment industry. Ellis teaches at Harvard Business School, chairs AIMR… more
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Posted 13 years agoJames Hillman studied with psychiatrist Carl Jung in the 1950s and went on to become the first director of studies at the Jung Institute in Zurich. A profoundly subversive thinker - called "a thorn in the side of respectable psychologists" -… more
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70 mins • Recorded Apr 30, 2004Posted 9 years agoRichard Clarke's recent public testimony before the 9/11 Commission prompted an unprecedented furor in the media. Clarke's allegations are further detailed in his new book, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. Known as a hard-liner… more
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Posted 13 years agoPerhaps best known for his work The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester now focuses his attention on the devastating volcanic eruption of Krakatoa. The explosion, heard almost 3,000 miles a way, resulted in the deaths of nearly 40,000… more
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Posted 13 years agoLawyer turned writer, Louis Begley first appeared on the literary landscape in 1991 with his loosely autobiographical holocaust fiction, Wartime Lies, for which he received a National Book Award nomination and a PEN/Ernest Hemingway First Fiction… more
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Posted 13 years agoFor her journalism Cokie Roberts has garnered both an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award. She is co-anchor of the ABC's This Week and serves as a news analyst for National Public Radio. She has earned Mother of the Year awards from both the… more
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Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . Neal Pollack is a major contributor to McSweeney's .
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71 mins • Recorded Apr 8, 2004Posted 13 years agoCounty Dublin-born Nuala O'Faolain joins the ranks of the "serial memoirists" with her most recent memoir, Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman. According to the Library Journal this memoir "picks up where O'Faolain's celebrated Are… more
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Acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley's book chronicles more than four decades of John Kerry's journey in the Vietnam War.
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Posted 13 years agoBorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edwidge Danticat spent most of early years with her aunt and uncle and then at the age of 12 moved to Brooklyn to be with her parents. She began writing not long after, and since then her essays and stories have… more
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62 mins • Recorded Mar 19, 2004Posted 13 years agoEllen Goodman established a name for herself by making serious work of what have traditionally been considered "soft subjects." Her nationally syndicated newspaper columns, nestled among politically hard-hitting editorials, deal with topics such… more
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Posted 14 years agoConsidered to be one of the most important writers of the modern postwar era, Doris Lessing has enjoyed a long and successful career as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She has traveled widely in geographical, social, political,… more
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Posted 13 years agoEmerging in the late 1960s from the Society of the Holy Child Jesus after seven years as a nun, Karen Armstrong became an academic and historian, freelance writer and broadcaster. She has been called nothing short of a genius, and The New York… more
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