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by Eric Fettmann, Steven Lomazow
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945 sent shock waves around the world. His lifelong physician swore that the president had always been a picture of health. Later, in 1970, Roosevelt's cardiologist admitted he had been suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and that his death-from a cerebral...
Destiny Disrupted
A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
The Western narrative of world history largely omits a whole civilization. Destiny Disrupted tells the history of the world from the Islamic point of view, and restores the centrality of the Muslim perspective, ignored for a thousand years.
In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich...
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Texas may well be America's most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state's politics and attitude. And yet, according to...
The Courage of Strangers
Coming of Age With the Human Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2005
After Jeri Laber earned a Master's degree in Russian studies at Columbia University, she became a part-time writer and editor and a full-time wife and mother. Then one day in 1973 she read an article about torture that altered her life and subsequently the lives of countless others around the world.
The...
Icefall
Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
John All has survived encounters with black mamba snakes, run-ins with wild jungle animals, and a brush with death in an icy tomb. No one knows the outer limits of our changing planet quite like him.
In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientist John All plunged into a crevasse in the Himalayas,...
Lincoln
A President for the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
The First American. Frontiersman and backwoods attorney. Teller of bawdy tales and a spellbinding orator. A champion of liberty some called a would-be tyrant. Savior of the Union and the Great Emancipator. All these are Abraham Lincoln-in his time America's most admired and reviled leader, and still...
First Ladies
Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
C-SPAN's year-long history series, "First Ladies: Influence and Image," aired in 2013 and 2014 and was devoted to revealing the private lives and public actions of 43 iconic American women.
First Ladies captures the spirit of this special series by assembling its impressive collection...
Sundays at Eight
25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN'S Q&A and Booknotes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains...
All The Stops
The Glorious Pipe Organ And Its American Masters
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2004
For centuries, pipe organs stood at the summit of musical and technological achievement, admired as the most complex and intricate mechanisms the human race had yet devised. In All The Stops, New York Times journalist Craig Whitney journeys through the history of the American pipe organ and brings...
The Other Great Depression
How I'm overcoming, on a daily basis, at least a million addictions and disfunctions and finding a s
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
At the age of 44, renowned comedian Richard Lewis found himself on a gurney in the ER, toxic with alcohol, and hallucinating from excess cocaine use. The same neuroses and dysfunctions that had been the basis for his successful stage persona and inspired his best material had, it seemed, turned on...
The Birth of a Movement
How Birth of a Nation Ignited the Battle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
In 1915, two men-one a journalist agitator, the other a technically brilliant filmmaker-incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against civil rights.
Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film...
A Kind of Genius
Herb Sturz and Society's Toughest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
In A Kind of Genius, Sam Roberts offers a window onto Herb Sturz's extraordinary life's work. Sturz began his long career in social entrepreneurship by reforming the bail system and founding the Vera Institute of Justice. He served as New York City's Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice under Ed Koch...
A Question Of Intent
A Great American Battle With A Deadly Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2002
Tobacco companies had been protecting their turf for decades. They had congressmen in their pocket. They had corrupt scientists who made excuses about nicotine, cancer and addiction. They had hordes of lawyers to threaten anyone-inside the industry or out-who posed a problem. They had a whole lot...
Running the World
The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Never before in the history of mankind have so few people had so much power over so many. The people at the top of the American national security establishment, the President and his principal advisors, the core team at the helm of the National Security Council, are without question the most powerful...