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Terry Teachout talks about his book, "Pops: A life of Louis Armstrong".

Terry Teachout talked about his biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong was a jazz musician who influenced the music and culture of the 20th century. M…

Terry Teachout talked about the relationship between politics and art. He focused on the purposes of political art, the aesthetic value of art designed to persuade, political ideologies pres…

Terry Teachout talked about this biography The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken, published by Harper Collins. The book is a biography of the late American journalist and author and chronicl…

The institute held a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the publication of Whittaker Chambers' memoir, “Witness". In "Witness,” Chambers revealed how he became a communist and a spy,…