Booknotes: Life Stories : Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0812930819 ISBN 13: 9780812930818

Verlag: Times Books, 1999

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Interviews with some of the world's foremost biographers explore the lives and achievements of the people who have shaped the modern world, from Winston Churchill and Thomas Jefferson to Martin Luther King, jr., and FDR

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<b>Brian Lamb</b> is the founding CEO of C-SPAN. He has been the host of C-SPAN's Booknotes since its debut on March 5, 1989, an experiment that quickly become an oasis of literary programming on television. More than 500 interviews later, Brian Lamb is one of the most admired figures talking about books on television. He is shown here with (left to right) Susan Swain, executive vice-president of C-Span, and Lea Anne Long and Anne Bentzel, each of whom has helped edit the present volume.

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nts to generals, from civil rights activists to poets, from inventors to scientists, Brian Lamb explores the lives of our most fascinating Americans on Booknotes, his weekly C-Span interview program. He and his guests have examined the lives of Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, Robert McNamara, Adlai Stevenson, Albert Einstein, Will Rogers, Amelia Earhart, Martin Luther King, and Thurgood Marshall, to name just a dozen of the seminal figures now found in Booknotes: Life Stories. The biographers featured here are often no less legendary than their subjects: David Herbert Donald on Abraham Lincoln, Ron Chernow on John D. Rockefeller, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, David McCullough on Harry Truman, Norman Mailer on Lee Harvey Oswald, Robert Caro on Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Katharine Graham and Frank McCourt on their own lives.<br><br>In his first book, <i>Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of I

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• Verlag: Times Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0812930819
• ISBN 13: 9780812930818
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 471
• Herausgeber: Lamb Brian
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