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How important is storytelling in writing history? A selection of members from the book and publishing world weighed in on the question. The speakers included author and New Yorker staff writ…

Biographer Benjamin Moser talked about his book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, in which he recounted the life of the late public intellectual Susan Sontag.

Historian Brenda Wineapple talked about The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. In her book, she looked back at the impeachment of President Andrew Johnso…

Historians Rick Atkinson (The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777) and Brenda Wineapple, (The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of …

Authors discussed the impact of the Trump administration on government. They spoke at the 2019 Brooklyn Book Festival.

Brenda Wineapple talked about her book, Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877, in which she presents a history of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. In…

Biographer Robert Caro and historian Brenda Wineapple talked about writing history. They spoke at the 35th annual Key West Literary Seminar.

Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, and Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877, talked about their …

A panel examines the historical scholarship of David Reynolds, author of biographies of John Brown and Walt Whitman and histories of the mid-19th century. The panelists include Pulitzer Priz…

Book TV was live at the Miami Book Fair International, held on the campus of Miami Dade College on November 23-24, 2013.

From the 31st annual Key West Literary Seminar in Key West, Florida, authors Jay Parini, Brenda Wineapple, Edmund White and Phyllis Rose talked about biographies and the limits of objectivit…

Brenda Wineapple talked about her book, Hawthorne: A Life, published by Knopf. The book is a comprehensive biography of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of The Scarlet Letter, The Hous…

The National Book Foundation presented the 56th Annual National Book Awards for best book in each of the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature. Garrison Ke…

Guests talked about the history of the antebellum era, the transcendental movement, and national politics prior to the Civil War through the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne wrote …

Authors discussed the increasing popularity of biographies. They also focused on how they determine the line between the private and public lives of individuals, and how this effects their w…