In Depth with Stacy Schiff
Her latest book is a biography of Founding Father Samuel Adams.
3,044 viewsHer latest book is a biography of Founding Father Samuel Adams.
3,044 viewsJournalist Jonathan Eig examined the life of Martin Luther King Jr., including recently declassified FBI documents about the civil rights leader. This was part of the 2023 Gaithersburg Book …
450 viewsWalter Isaacson examined Elon Musk’s life and career in tech, including his takeover of Twitter, now called X. Held at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., this was hosted by Poli…
2,268 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.
992 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.
432 viewsThe 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored literary works in several categories including biography and current events.
259 viewsAwards for fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography and other categories were presented.
315 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.
411 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.
938 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.
379 viewsHistorian Walter Isaacson talked about his biography of Benjamin Franklin and the Ken Burns documentary on Franklin for which he was a senior advisor.
515 viewsLee: A Life," a biography of the general who commanded the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
3,975 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.
596 viewsJournalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser looked at the life and career of former White House Chief of St…
558 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.
707 viewsJohn Allen talked about his book Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu, published by Free Press.
231 viewsTamara Payne recounted the life of Malcolm X in her Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Dead Are Arising.
199 viewsTamara Payne recounted the life of Malcolm X from her National Book Award-winning biography, The Dead Are Arising.
825 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.
1,292 viewsNeal Gabler offered the first of a two-volume biography of the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
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