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The Obama Year
October 24, 2009
Michael Porter professor, Harvard Business School
David Gergen professor, public service, Harvard
Tom Ashbrook host, On Point
Lani Guinier professor, Harvard Law School
Jack Beatty senior editor, Atlantic Monthly

Harvard economist and business guru Michael E. Porter, pundit and advisor to presidents past David Gergen, Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier, and Atlantic Monthly senior editor Jack Beatty mix it up with a frank assessment of the President Obama's progress on his new agenda. Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR and WBUR's On Point moderates.

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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
James Orbinski
00:59:29
Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century.
Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Nation: Part I
R. Nicholas Burns
00:51:05
Ambassador R.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Cynthia Lopez: WAM! 2009 Keynote
Cynthia Lopez
01:00:49
Cynthia Lopez, vice president of American Documentary's P.O.V., delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference.
Thomas Ricks: General Petraeus and the American Military in Iraq
Thomas E. Ricks
00:45:21
Washington Post correspondent Thomas E. Ricks discusses his newly in paperback exploration of the Iraq war, The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq.
Image of Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Author: Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Free Press (1998)
Binding: Hardcover, 592 pages
Image of Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
Author: Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Free Press (1998)
Binding: Hardcover, 397 pages
Image of On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition
Author: Michael E. Porter
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 576 pages
Image of Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton
Author: David Gergen
Publisher: (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages
Image of The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush
Author: Tom Ashbrook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2000)
Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages
Image of Tyranny of the Majority : Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
Author: Lani Guinier
Publisher: Free Press (1995)
Binding: Paperback, 352 pages
Image of The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (Nathan I.Huggins Lectures)
Author: Gerald Torres, Lani Guinier
Publisher: Harvard University Press (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 400 pages
Image of Who's Qualified? (New Democracy Forum)
Author: Susan Sturm, Lani Guinier
Publisher: Beacon Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 124 pages
Image of Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice
Author: Lani Guinier
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 336 pages
Image of Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change
Author: Jane Balin, Michelle Fine, Lani Guinier
Publisher: Beacon Press (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 192 pages
Image of POLS: Great Writers on American Politicians from Bryan to Reagan
Author: Jack Beatty
Publisher: (2004)
Binding: Hardcover, 463 pages
Image of The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley (1874-1958)
Author: Jack Beatty
Publisher: Da Capo Press (2000)
Binding: Paperback, 592 pages
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