Ron Chernow's recently published "George Washington: a life" logs in at 900 pages, one of the most acclaimed historical biographies of the past year.
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Writer and ecologist Terry Tempest Williams talks with Steve Paulson about prairie dogs and their language and her trip to a village for genocide survivors in Rwanda.
Saira Shah tells Jim Fleming how her father used stories to give her a sense of her ethnic cultural birthright and how those stories helped her when she worked in Afghanistan.
Nina Simone's powerful voice and turbulent life are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary, a new biography and a forthcoming Hollywood biopic. But it's her politics that speaks most forcefully to a new generation of African American activists. Biographer Alan Light talks about the incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon.
In 1935, a group of ornithologists from Cornell University set out on an expedition to find and record America's rarest bird: the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
The novelist and feminist critic talks about tackling her trolls and “writing to the point of uncomfortability.”
Tom Carson is a novelist, television critic and the author of “Gilligan’s Wake.” He talks about blending James Joyce’s classic “Finnegan’s Wake” with those seven wacky castaways from “Gilligan’s Island.”
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