Featuring interviews with eminent historians, journalists, and writers, Speaking of America brings together nineteen wide-ranging conversations from philanthropist and financier David M. Rubenstein's long-running Congressional Dialogues series of interviews at the Library of Congress. Highlights include Ken Burns on documenting American history, Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams, Manisha Sinha on Reconstruction, and David McCullough on the American frontier.
Published in association with the Library of Congress
Featuring interviews with eminent historians, journalists, and writers, Speaking of America brings together nineteen wide-ranging conversations from philanthropist and financier David M. Rubenstein's long-running Congressional Dialogues series of interviews at the Library of Congress. Rubenstein and his guests bring to life notable figures, events, and trends drawn from American history and culture and beyond.
Highlights include Ken Burns on bringing American history to life, Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams, Manisha Sinha on Reconstruction, David McCullough on the American frontier, Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover, Chris Wallace on the presidential election of 1960, Evan Thomas on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Eric Schmidt on artificial intelligence, Arthur Brooks on happiness, and David Grann on The Wager, his best-selling story of shipwreck and mutiny. Taken together, the conversations in Speaking of America all build toward the same shared message of dialogue, cooperation, and the importance of knowledge and reflection, highlighting how the study of history can enrich our understanding of current-day challenges in politics and policy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword by Robert R. Newlen, Acting Librarian of Congress
- Introduction by David M. Rubenstein
- 1. Ken Burns on Bringing History to Life
- 2. Stacy Schiff on Samuel Adams
- 3. Allen C. Guelzo on Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
- 4. Manisha Sinha on Lincoln, Johnson, and Reconstruction
- 5. Michael Beschloss on Wartime Presidents
- 6. Chris Wallace on the Presidential Election of 1960
- 7. Mark K. Updegrove on John F. Kennedy
- 8. Max Boot on Ronald Reagan
- 9. David Maraniss on Jim Thorpe
- 10. Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover
- 11. Evan Thomas on Sandra Day O’Connor
- 12. Admiral William H. McRaven on the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
- 13. Walter Isaacson on Leonardo da Vinci
- 14. David McCullough on Writing American History and The Pioneers
- 15. Siddhartha Mukherjee on Cancer, Cell Biology, and Mapping the Human Genome
- 16. Eric Schmidt on Artificial Intelligence
- 17. Graham Allison on the Cuban Missile Crisis and Thucydides’s Trap
- 18. Arthur C. Brooks on Happiness
- 19. David Grann on The Wager
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index
- About the Author
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