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Lillian Ross on Ernest Hemingway
Lillian Ross
June 9, 2009
01:03:52
New Yorker writer Lillian Ross reflects on her famous 1950 profile of Ernest Hemingway. In celebration of the 110th anniversary of the Hemingway’s birth, Ross shares what she has learned about writing and writers throughout her career.
Tribute to John Updike
Tribute to John Updike
Nicholson Baker
June 1, 2009
01:01:50
Authors Nicholson Baker, Samuel Shem (pen-name of Dr. Stephen Bergman), and Anne Bernays; editor and journalist Charles McGrath; critic and scholar William Pritchard; and family members paid tribute to author John Updike, who passed away on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76.
Presidency of Gerald Ford
Steven Ford
May 3, 2009
01:31:59
Steven Ford, son of President Gerald Ford; Carla Hills, who served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Ford administration; Benton Becker, advisor to President Ford; and historian Richard Norton Smith discuss his legacy.
Future of Islam
Ali A. Allawi
April 27, 2009
01:22:59
Ali Allawi, former Minister of Defense and Minister of Finance in the Iraqi Transitional Government, discusses his new book, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization, with National Public Radio correspondent Corey Flintoff.
The First 100 Days
Jonathan Alter
April 13, 2009
01:27:09
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek and author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, and Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, offer observations regarding the early days of
Town Hall Meeting with Governor Deval Patrick
Deval Patrick
March 23, 2009
00:54:56
Governor Deval Patrick discusses current issues facing Massachusetts citizens in a televised Town Meeting format moderated by NECN Anchor R.D. Sahl.
Poverty and Social Justice Challenges Facing the Nation: Part I
Marian Wright Edelman
February 8, 2009
00:44:48
Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, discuss the social, economic, and educational challenges facing this country. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert moderates.
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part II
Paul Farmer
January 27, 2009
00:51:40
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democr