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David Isay: Listening is an Act of Love
December 9, 2008
David Isay founder and president, StoryCorps Project
John Weatherford senior vice president, general manager, Public Broadcasting Atlanta
Doug Shipman executive director, Center for Civil and Human Rights
William (Lynn) Weaver member, AETC board of directors, Morehouse School of Medicine

David Isay talks about his new compilation in print, Listening is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project. StoryCorps, the most ambitious oral history project in American history, has collected the memories of more than 20,000 people from all 50 states and every imaginable walk of life, background, identity group, age, and state of mind.

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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
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Author: Milton Rogovin, Harvey Wang, David Miller, Dave Isay
Publisher: Quantuck Lane Press (2003)
Binding: Hardcover, 128 pages
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