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Past winners have included filmmaker Ken Burns as well as historian Doris Kearns Goodwin...
Orhan Pamuk: My lectures are focused on the art of the novel. They are from the point of view of the practitioner, not of the scholar or the historian...
...person who did not leave Chelsea alone was her father. In acclaimed historian Taylor Branch's new book The Clinton Tapes - woven from Branch's recorded conversations with the President from 1993 to 2001 - the portrait of the relationship between Bill Clinton, a man who never knew his own father, and his daughter reveals a side we rarely saw on the public stage. Bill Clinton, it turns out, raised a daughter and ran the free world, sometimes in that order...
During 79 sessions taped between 1993 and 2001, President Bill Clinton and Pulitzer Prize--winning historian Taylor Branch recorded a secret and "unique, verbatim record" of Clinton's presidency, meant to serve posterity. At the end of each conversation, Branch would hand over his cassettes to Clinton--and then record his observations and recollections after leaving the White House. This book is the fruit of that second set of tapes, and it's by turns intimate and dispassionately historical. With its chronological account of Clinton's then contemporaneous comments on the Middle East peace process, his Republican opponents and just...
...quarterly he co-edited, the Public Interest, subjected the bright new ideas of the Great Society to intense scrutiny--and opened the door for the conservative intellectual revolution of the 1970s that he both led and chronicled. Not least among his accomplishments was his marriage to the equally brilliant historian Gertrude Himmelfarb. A glimpse of the two was a picture of happiness...