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…
1,581 viewsProfessor 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…
1,581 viewsKaren 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…
329 viewsMichael 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 …
809 viewsRoy 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…
275 viewsAlford, 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…
315 viewsSylvia 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…
302 viewsProfessor 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…
970 viewsParticipants 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…
270 viewsMichael 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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