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    All the Great Prizes and The Man Who Saved the Union

    John Taliaferro, author of All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, From Lincoln to Roosevelt and H.W. Brands, author of The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses S Grant in War and Peace, tal…

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    Q&A with John Taliaferro

    John Taliaferro talked about his newly released biography, All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt. In the book he points out that John Hay was a “delicious” su…

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    Great White Fathers

    Mr. Taliaferro talked about his book Great White Fathers: The Story of the Obsessive Quest to Create Mt. Rushmore, published by Public Affairs. The book tells the story of the monument, its …

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    Magnificent Obsessions

    From the Texas Book Festival in Austin, this panel of historianstalked about their books. They also responded to questions from the audience. Stephen Harrigan, author of “The Gates of the Al…

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    Books of a Lifetime

    The panelists talked about writing biographies and responded to questions from the moderator. The panelists explained what the books they wrote were about and why they wrote the biographies.

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