Dalton Conley grew up in the housing projects of New York's lower East Side. But he went to school in a wealthy white neighborhood.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Historian Donald Sassoon tells Jim Fleming that the Mona Lisa is a great painting, but that other factors conspired to make it an international icon.
Katha Pollitt's Dangerous Idea? Your child is not a special snowflake.
Edmund Morris says Theodore Roosevelt was a force of nature - man of towering intellect, boundless physical energy and firm convictions whose greatest achievement as President was his commitment to conservation.
Franz Lidz is the author of "Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders."
The documentary, "Examined Life," features eight prominent philosophers, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler.
Candace Pert's latest project is a CD of therapeutic words and music called “Psychosomatic Wellness.”
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