The anniversary of the April 4, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a portion of his last speech, President Lyndon Johnson’s address to the nation, and author Hampton Sides' s…
135 viewsThe April 4 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. was remembered with his last speech, President Lyndon Johnson’s address to the nation and a Book TV 2010 talk with Hampton Sides, au…
269 viewsAuthors Hampton Sides, On Desperate Ground; Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic, Indianapolis; and Bruce Dinges, A Just and Righteous Cause; discussed their respective military history books at the…
442 viewsAuthors John Grisham, The Reckoning, David Grann, The White Darkness, and Hampton Sides, On Desperate Ground, talked about their latest books.
1,083 viewsHistorians talked about westward expansion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the political reasons for traveling west. They also discussed Kit Carson and other mountain men, and the i…
1,314 viewsHampton Sides is the author of Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West. He described the American frontiersman as a controversial figure, often …
1,260 viewsMr. Sides talked about his book Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission, published by Doubleday. The book tells the story of 121 elite Army Rangers w…
7,004 viewsDaniel James Brown, S.C. Gwynne, and Hampton Sides talked about how they use character, plot, and pacing to write nonfiction narratives and biographies. “History with a Novelist’s Touch: …
1,058 viewsMr. Sides talked about his book, Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission, published by Doubleday. In a writing workshop on narrative form nonfiction …
521 viewsModerated by Mr. Taylor, prize-winning nonfiction writers described how they found and developed the ideas for their popular nonfiction books. After their remarks they answered audience memb…
218 viewsHampton Sides discussed his book Americana: Dispatches from the New Frontier, published by Anchor Books. In a collection of thirty essays, Mr. Sides attempts to define what America "means".…
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