Jill - A Biography of the First Lady
Associated Press' Julie Pace and Darlene Superville spoke about the life and career of First Lady Jill Biden. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this event.
240 viewsAssociated Press' Julie Pace and Darlene Superville spoke about the life and career of First Lady Jill Biden. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosted this event.
240 viewsAuthor Debby Applegate recounted the life of Jazz Age icon and notorious madam Polly Adler. This program took place at the American Library Association’s 2022 conference in Washington, D.C.
223 viewsWilliam Cross talked about his biography of painter Winslow Homer, who was capturing the American experience as the Civil War erupted in 1861 and who continued working through Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and into the early 20th century.
285 viewsNorthwestern University History Professor Amy Stanley discussed her biography, Stranger in the Shogun's City, about a Japanese woman's life in Edo (now Toyko) during the 19th century, just prior to the city's encounters with Commodore Matthew Perry and the United States Navy in 1853. The book was a National Book Critics Award winner and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography.
761 viewsHistorian Walter Isaacson talked about his biography of Benjamin Franklin and the Ken Burns documentary on Franklin for which he was a senior advisor.
437 viewsLee: A Life," a biography of the general who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
3,474 viewsHudson Institute senior fellow Melanie Kilpatrick talked about her biography of Godey's Lady's Book editor Sarah Josepha Hale, considered one of the most influential women in America during the 19th century.
539 viewsJournalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser looked at the life and career of former White House Chief of…
470 viewsAuthor and former NPR and ABC News correspondent Kati Marton discussed her biography of Angela Merkel, who served as chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
595 viewsJohn Allen talked about his book Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu, published by Free Press.
197 viewsTamara Payne recounted the life of Malcolm X in her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Dead Are Arising.
144 viewsMiriam Pawel talked about her book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, in which she chronicles the life and activism of United Farm Workers co-founder and president Cesar Chavez.
841 viewsTamara Payne recounted the life of Malcolm X from her National Book Award-winning biography, The Dead Are Arising.
787 viewsThis was a 10:00 a.m. program in the History and Biography Pavilion of the 9th annual National Book Festival, held on the National Mall.
1,224 viewsNeal Gabler offered the first of a two-volume biography of the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
578 viewsDebora MacKenzie (COVID-19) and Muhammad Zaman (Biography of Resistance) discussed past pandemics and COVID-19.
291 viewsKennedy's life in the first volume of a planned two-part biography of America's 35th President.
1,124 viewsHistorian David Reynolds provided a biography of Abraham Lincoln and looked at how societal influences impacted his life. This was a virtual event hosted by the Leon Levy Center for Biography in New York City.
City University of New York | Leon Levy Center for Biography829 viewsBrands provided a dual biography of abolitionist John Brown and Abraham Lincoln.
1,152 viewsHistorians Harold Holzer, The Presidency vs. the Press, and Ted Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge discussed…
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