Leonard Todd wrote "Carolina Clay: The Life and Legend of the Slave Potter Dave" to explore the history of two families - Potter Dave's and his own.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Reihan Salam critiqued the movie "Gandhi" for Slate Magazine in an article called "Meet the Hindustani Malcolm X."
Nicholas Basbanes tells Steve Paulson that people destroy books to annihilate the culture of their enemies and remembers some of the heroes who fought to save books from the Nazis and in Bosnia.
A New York Times film critic talks about the role of film criticism in contemporary society.
Lucy Jago tells Steve Paulson about the life and work of the Norwegian scientist who figured out what really causes the Northern Lights.
Meg Gaines is an attorney who was diagnosed in 1994 with terminal, inoperable ovarian cancer. She is now cancer free.
Norman Doidge is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher at the University of Toronto, and author of "The Brain that Changes Itself."
Jane Goodall revolutionized the study of primates and forced people to reconsider what it means to be human. She tells Steve Paulson about her decades of work with chimpanzees.
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