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Ron Powers talked about his book Mark Twain: A Life, published by Free Press. In his book the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning author chronicled the life of one of America’s most famou…

Ron Powers and John Baldwin were interviewed about their book Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship, published by Crown.

Author Ron Powers spoke on In Depth with host Connie Doebele. Mr. Powers spoke on his writing career up to his most recent book “Mark Twain: A Life.”

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the publishing year 2005 read from their works at an event held in the New School’s Tishman Auditorium on the evening before the awa…

Author Ron Powers was interviewed about his book Mark Twain: A Life, published by Free Press. They also discussed books that he co-wrote about World War II, Flags of Our Fathers and The Man…

Authors speak about recent books they have written, all of which started as somewhat political works and ended up being very personal narratives. They answered questions from the audience.

Powers talked about his book, Tom and Huck Don’t Live Here Anymore, published by St. Martin’s Press. The author said that small town America is no longer the symbol of childhood innocence th…

Ron Powers talked about his book Dangerous Water: A Biography of the Boy Who Became Mark Twain, published by Basic Books. The book recreates the boyhood of Samuel Clemens in Hannibal, Missou…