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An eye-witness to the rise of Hitler’s Germany and a leading American scholar of European history, Fritz Stern received the Leo Baeck Medal from the Leo Baeck Institute, a center focused on German Jewish history. In his provocative acceptance… more
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• Recorded Feb 8, 2007Join us for an evening of etymologic mayhem, sensational syntactic investigation, and grammar gone wild with Mark Liberman , editor of Language Log , co-author of Far From the Madding Gerund, and Professor of Phonetics in Linguistics at the… more
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• Recorded Feb 6, 2007An historian and Middle East scholar with citizenship in the United States and Israel, Michael Oren is the author of the best-selling history Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Niall Ferguson writes, “ Power,… more
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Timothy Zahn published a dozen science fiction novels and novellas, two of which were nominated for, and one of which won, the prestigious Hugo Award, before he picked up writing where the Star Wars movie trilogy left off. He has since published… more
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With the publication of his debut novel, The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis emerged as one of the leading British writers of the late-twentieth century. An essayist and critic as well as a novelist, he is a prolific writer whose work is characterized… more
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• Recorded Jan 25, 2007 Explicit Content( This recording contains explicit content. ) Not suitable for individuals under 18 Walter Mosley is the author of more than twenty-five critically acclaimed books, including the best-selling Easy Rawlins mystery series. His work includes literary… more
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Satirist, food writer, and novelist, Calvin Trillin is a long-time New Yorker staff writer and "Deadline Poet" for The Nation . Acclaimed for their tongue-in-cheek humor, his columns and satirical poems are collected in Uncivil Liberties , If You… more
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Veteran counterterrorism czar and best-selling author of Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror , Richard A. Clarke has worked for seven presidents and devoted three decades of his professional life to combating the terrorist threat… more
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• Recorded Jan 18, 2007Neal Pollack is the author of The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature, published by McSweeney’s, the rock-n-roll novel Nevermind the Pollacks, and editor of Chicago Noir, a collection of crime stories. He has contributed satire and… more
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• Recorded Jan 11, 2007A journalist, historian, and social critic, Barbara Ehrenreich is the outspoken author of fourteen books. In 2001, Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America became a New York Times bestseller and has since sold over one… more
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• Recorded Dec 14, 2006Neal Gabler’s Walt Disney is the long-awaited, definitive biography of one of the most important - and mysterious - figures in the history of American entertainment and culture. As the first writer granted total access to the Disney archives,… more
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William S. McFeely, whose biography of Ulysses S. Grant won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982, sheds new light on the famed Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins. McFeely sets the evocative melancholy of his portraits, particularly of women, in the context… more
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In A History of the Jews in the Modern World, Howard M. Sachar, a professor of history at George Washington University and one of the most respected chroniclers of Jewish life and ideas, proves himself to be both a compelling storyteller and… more
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Almost a decade in the making, Postwar is a sweeping history of post WWII Europe from the renowned historian Tony Judt, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies at New York University and director and founder of the Remarque Institute.… more
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Jules Feiffer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip ran for forty-two years in the Village Voice and his cartoons have been collected into nineteen books. He is the author of numerous plays, among them Little Murders, and screenplays, including… more
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• Recorded Nov 16, 2006Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry for Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell establishes the cosmic, social, and cultural significance of life through the language of daily human experience. The founder and former… more
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Former senior national affairs writer for the Wall Street Journal, Ron Suskind is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of A Hope in the Unseen and The Price of Loyalty, a frank and revealing account of the Bush White… more
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Alice McDermott is the author of five previous novels including Charming Billy , winner of the l998 National Book Award. Her novel At Weddings and Wakes was a New York Times bestseller in l992 and That Night was short-listed for the National Book… more
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• Recorded Nov 7, 2006A toxic mix of money and power, Jack Abramoff’s corrupt lobbying activity has tarred many powerful Washington insiders - including embattled Republican power broker Tom DeLay, Congressman Bob Ney, former head of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed,… more
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The preeminent scientist Richard Dawkins is Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Discover magazine recently dubbed him "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce defense of evolution and Prospect… more
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