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    Strong at the Broken Places

    Senator Max Cleland talked about his autobiography Strong at the Broken Places, published by Longstreet Press. This is a new, updated edition of a memoir he wrote in 1980, describing his exp…

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    King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

    Wil Haygood talked about the paperback reissue of his book King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., first published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Company. In the book,…

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    Dreams From My Father

    Senator-elect Obama talked about his memoir Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, published by Three Rivers Press. It was his account of growing up in a racially mixed fam…

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    Wild Rose: Rose O'Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy

    Ms. Blackman talked about her book Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy, published by Random House. A Maryland native, Rose O’Neale Greenhow (1817-1864) grew up in Washington, D.…

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    The Worlds Banker

    Mr. Mallaby talked about his book The Worlds Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, published by Penguin Books. He spoke about the tenure …

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    Ronnie and Nancy Book Party

    Mr. Colacello talked about his book Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980, published by Warner Books, the first of a two-volume authorized dual biography of Nancy and…

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    Living It Up with National Review: A Memoir

    Priscilla Buckley talked about her book Living It Up with National Review: A Memoir, published by Spence Publishing Company. She described her forty-three years of working as an editor at Na…

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    Blacklisted by History

    M. Stanton Evans talked about his book, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies, published by Crown Forum. The author argued …

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    Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

    Catherine Clinton talked about her book, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, published by Little Brown and Company. In the book, the author writes about Harriet Tubman’s escape from slavery…

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    William Clark and the Shaping of the West

    Landon Jones talked about his book William Clark and the Shaping of the West, published by Hill and Wang. The biography follows Clark’s career after his expedition with Meriwether Lewis. Fol…

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    W.E.B. DuBois

    Professor David Levering Lewis talked about his book W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963, published by Henry Holt and Co. The book is the second volume…

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    The Autobiography of Medgar Evers

    Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable talked about the book they edited, The Autobiography Of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches,…

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    Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century

    John Farrell talked about his book, Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century, published by Little, Brown & Company. The book is the first full-scale biography of the late speaker of the House.…

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    Rating the First Ladies

    John Roberts talked about his book Rating the First Ladies: The Women Who Influenced the Presidency, published by Citadel Press. In the book, he analyzes the first ladies as political partne…

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    Thomas Jefferson: Author of America

    Christopher Hitchens talked about his book Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, published by HarperCollins in the Eminent Lives series. The author described both the public and private lives…

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    Bound for the Promised Land

    Kate Larson talked about her book Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an Ameican Hero, published by Ballantine Books. In it the author chronicled the life of one of the …

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    Martha Washington: An American Life

    Patricia Brady talked about her biography, Martha Washington: An American Life, published by Viking. She described Martha Washington as a decisive woman who contributed greatly to the charac…

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    Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee

    Ms. Pryor talked about her book, Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee, published by Penguin. She described being allowed by Lee’s family to use many letters written by Robert E. Lee …

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    Reagan: A Life in Letters

    Kiron Skinner and Martin and Annelise Anderson were fellows at the Hoover Institution and co-editors of Reagan: A Life in Letters. In the book, the editors compiled more than one thousand of…

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    John Adams

    Mr. McCullough, author of the book John Adams published by Simon and Schuster, delivered a speech entitled “The Enduring Examples of John and Abigail Adams” at the 201st anniversary of the L…

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