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Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness
Loung Ung
May 4, 2012
01:03:02
Loung Ung discusses her memoir, Lulu in the Sky: A Daughter of Cambodia Finds Love, Healing, and Double Happiness.
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Kenneth Mack
May 4, 2012
00:50:34
Kenneth Mack discusses his book Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.
Creativity and Stress
Creativity and Stress
Debra Wise
April 22, 2012
01:20:30
In Terezin, the concentration camp in which Jewish artists, writers, and musicians were imprisoned, the opportunity to practice art—to draw, to write, to perform—provided a kind of spiritual or emotional sustenance for the prisoners.
Deng Xiaoping and the Opening of China
Ezra Vogel
April 10, 2012
01:29:03
Perhaps no person in the 20th century affected more people or had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping.
The Rise of China and American Power
The Rise of China and American Power
Joseph Nye Jr.
April 10, 2012
01:19:40
Joseph Nye of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government draws upon the insights of his recent meetings with China's future leaders to examine the future of American relations with China. As China has become a more powerful player in the Pacific, how has it projected its strength?
Hanne Blank - Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
Hanne Blank - Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
Hanne Blank
April 5, 2012
00:58:43
Author and historian Hanne Blank discusses her book Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality. Like the typewriter and the light bulb, Blank argues that the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture.
Rachel Maddow - Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow - Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow
April 1, 2012
00:57:52
Rachel Maddow discusses her first book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. Drift argues that the U.S. has drifted away from its original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails.
The Presidency of LBJ
The Presidency of LBJ
Mark Updegrove
March 26, 2012
01:18:17
Mark Updegrove, director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum, discusses his new book, Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency with Daily Beast writer, John Avlon.