Podcasts
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• Recorded Feb 9, 2006Nonagenarian John Hope Franklin has long been a leader in the study of African American life. A pioneer of historical studies on the subject, Franklin’s books include American Book Award winner Black Intellectuals, The Emancipation Proclamation,… more
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• Recorded Feb 7, 2006Mark Taylor , a longtime music journalist , chronicles their rise and fall of one of the great girl groups of Motown in The Original Marvelettes . At a time when most girl groups merely swayed back and forth on the stage, the Marvelettes came out… more
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• Recorded Jan 31, 2006Emmy Award-winning business reporter, business and money management columnist for Newsweek and Goodhousekeeping, Jane Bryant Quinn is the New York Times best-selling author of Making the Most of Your Money.
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• Recorded Jan 24, 2006A journalist and civil-rights activist, Taylor Branch is the author of America in the King Years, athree part biography of Martin Luther King. Considered a “major accomplishment in biography as social history,” the trilogy is composed of Parting… more
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• Recorded Dec 15, 2005More than 50 years ago, C. S. Lewis created a land of wonder and enchantment called Narnia, and since then over 60 million readers have discovered that wondrous world. On December 9, 2005, the major motion picture, The Lion, The Witch and the… more
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David Halberstam is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of most distinguished social and political commentators in America. He is the author of War in a Time of Peace and The Best and the Brightest, although five of his fourteen… more
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At Home in Mitford, the first book in Jan Karon’s phenomenally successful Mitford Years series, was nominated for an ABBY by the American Booksellers Association in 1996, 1997, and again in 1998. In Light from Heaven, the long-anticipated final… more
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Written with the perspective of an insider, A Time to Run is the first novel from U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the most admired and respected figures in politics today. A Time to Run tells an exciting tale of friendship and betrayal,… more
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Frank McCourt retired after thirty years of teaching in New York City's public schools to write his autobiography, Angela's Ashes . The memoir remained at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for more than two years, won the Pulitzer… more
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The late, great New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael called Teri Garr “the funniest neurotic dizzy dame on the screen.” One of Hollywood’s most beloved comic actresses, Garr starred in the classic films Young Frankenstein, Close Encounters of the… more
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Maureen Dowd -- the intrepid New York Times columnist and winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her saucy and incisive commentary -- hit the bestseller list during the 2004 presidential campaign with Bushworld , a collection of her amp-ed up… more
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Michael Graves was instrumental in the emergence of postmodernism in the mid-1970s. His classic and colorful buildings are intended to make contemporary architecture more meaningful and accessible, referring to past tradition while responding to… more
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• Recorded Nov 18, 2005In 2002 Lynne Truss, the British writer and journalist, presented Cutting a Dash , a BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. The success of the series led to the publication of Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, a… more
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A distinguished historian and critic, Garry Wills is best known for his incisive political commentaries. Wills won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award and 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Lincoln at Gettysburg , the 1979 National Book Critics… more
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Historian and biographer Edmund Morris wrote Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, the controversial portrait of the 40th U.S. President, and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and first of an… more
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Marilynne Robinson is the author of Housekeeping, a modern classic and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. A teacher at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Robinson has also authored two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. Her new… more
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Scott Turow’s first-hand knowledge of the American legal system informs his taut legal mysteries. His novels, including Presumed Innocent and Reversible Errors, explore the murky terrain of justice with a “brash, backroom sensibility” and his… more
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E. L. Doctorow’s novels include The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, World’s Fair, Billy Bathgate, and City of God . Among his many honors are the National Book Award, two National Book Critics Circle awards, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National… more
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Actor Jerry Lewis’s rubber-faced characters in such films as The Nutty Professor and The King of Comedy earned him recognition as one of the great physical comics of all time. Now this Nobel Peace Prize nominee is chairman of the Muscular… more
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Ernest J. Gaines has enriched the body of American literature with his bestselling books, which include The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award winner A Lesson before Dying . His books revel in the… more
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