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    W.E.B. Du Bois

    Professor Marable discussed the life of the founder of the NAACP in his biography, W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Radical Democrat. The book was updated for Twayne’s Twentieth-Century American Biog…

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    The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib

    Karen Greenberg and Joshua Dratel talked about the book they edited, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, published by Cambridge University Press. The book is a compilation of U.S…

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    Next: The Future Just Happened

    Michael Lewis talked about the social ramifications of the Internet, specifically the empowerment of the youth and the disenfranchised. He talked about the role of instruments that allocate …

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    A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage

    Roy Blount and Calvin Trillin talked about Mark Twain and his newly discovered book, A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage published by W.W. Norton & Company. Mr. Blount wrote the foreword and…

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    Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq

    Alford, Anderson, and Leistner talked about their book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company. They, along with Ghait…

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    Writing Biographies

    Sylvia Jukes Morris and her husband Edmund Morris spoke about writing biographies for living and deceased subjects. Their discussion, entitled “Dead is Easier,” focused on Mr. Morris’s The R…

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    Uncle Tungsten

    Professor Sacks talked about and read from his book, Uncle Tungsten, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The book is a memoir about his youth in London during World War II. Uncle Tungsten refers t…

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    Conflict in Africa: Origins and Responsiblity

    Participants discussed Western responsibility for the problems of modern Africa. They also examined Africa’s ability to find its own solutions. The panelists were Michela Wrong, author of In…

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    Next: The Future Just Happened

    Michael Lewis talked about his book, Next: The Future Just Happened, published by W.W. Norton and Company. The book describes the social ramifications of the Internet. He argued that the Int…

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