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Troublesome Young Men: Rebels Who Helped Save England

June 5, 2007

Lynne Olson writer, reporter

Former White House Correspondent Lynne Olson reads from her new, highly acclaimed book Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England.

Series:

Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work Series

Topics: History | Literature & Philosophy

Tags: British Parlaiment | European | Journalists | Non-Fiction | Prime Minister | Tory Rebels | Winston Churchill | World War II

Presented by PBA and Jimmy Carter Library and Museum:

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

Cynthia Lopez: WAM! 2009 Keynote

Cynthia Lopez, vice president of American Documentary's P.O.V., delivers the keynote address at the 2009 Women, Action & the Media conference.

Media’s Mixed Messages to Women

Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett discuss current research on women and work, which finds that the mass media proliferates messaging that is in extreme conflict with the reality of women's lives.

Media and Movements

Alice Kim, Barbara Becnel, Liliana Segura, and Cassandra West describe how media tools and technologies can be harnessed for social change. They also look at what can be learned from the recent US presidential campaign to reshape grassroots organizing.

Sebastian Junger: War in Afghanistan

Sebastian Junger

Journalist and best-selling author Sebastian Junger discusses his book, War, an account of his time with a US Army platoon on the battlefields of Afghanistan.

Thomas Ricks: General Petraeus and the American Military in Iraq

Thomas E. Ricks

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.

Ethnic and Community Media: Dealing with Difference

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan

Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Carolyn Ji Jong Goossen, and Shruti Swamy examine the history, purpose, and politics of ethnic and community media outlets.

Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970

Author: Lynne Olson

Publisher: Scribner (2002)

Binding: Paperback, 464 pages

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