Lectures tagged "Profiles"

Robert S. Lyons: A Life of Bert Bell
Robert S. Lyons
January 30, 2010
00:41:39
Editor and sports writer Robert S. Lyons discusses his new biography, On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell, joined by Bell's son Upton, himself a former football executive and currently a radio commentator.
The Colorful Politician, James Michael Curley
William Bulger
January 20, 2010
00:41:58
William Bulger, who served as president of both the Massachusetts Senate and the University of Massachusetts, author of James Michael Curley: a Short Biography, explains why the "rascal" politician James Michael Curley was such and inspiration to the generation that followed him.
Belinda Rathbone: Tea with Miss Rose
Belinda Rathbone
December 17, 2009
00:35:31
Belinda Rathbone, co-author of Tea with Miss Rose, talks about the life and times of Rose Nichols, the Bostonian spinster who gathered a regular crowd at her townhouse on Beacon Hill in the 1950s to discuss art, politics, and world affairs over a cup of Hu-Kwa.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Colored People
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
November 12, 2009
01:21:42
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research and the Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor at Harvard University, discusses his memoir Colored People. This lecture is co-presented by Cambridge READS.
"Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service"
Lynne Joiner
October 27, 2009
01:15:00
Emmy award-winning journalist Lynne Joiner tells the tale of Service, an idealistic U.S. Foreign Service officer in wartime China who had the misfortune of often being right although U.S. policy makers refused to heed his prescient reporting.
John Hodgman Interviewed by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta
October 24, 2009
00:52:45
Tom Perrotta grills (or perhaps roasts, as on a slow-burning fire) the man whose irresistible humor begat Hodgmania on topics ranging from the sublime to the downright silly.
The Obama Year
Michael Porter
October 24, 2009
00:43:20
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.
Tribute to Chris Van Allsburg
Chris Van Allsburg
October 24, 2009
00:44:01
New York Times bestselling children’s author Brian Lies hosts a celebration of the achievements of beloved author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg.