Daniel J. Sharfstein, in conversation with Brent Staples, unravels the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are.
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April 2012
Audio
The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
April 12th, 2012
56 minutes 23 seconds
Daniel J. Sharfstein
Brent Staples (moderator)
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April 2012
Audio
The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food
April 3rd, 2012
51 minutes 30 seconds
Adam Gopnik
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Adam Gopnik takes the audience on a beguiling journey that begins in eighteenth-century France — the birthplace of our modern tastes and, by no coincidence, the restaurant — telling the story of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.
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March 2012
Audio
Conquered into Liberty
March 29th, 2012
1 hour 48 seconds
Eliot A. Cohen
Josiah Bunting III (moderator)
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Eliot A. Cohen and Josiah Bunting III tell the story of how woodland skirmishes and massacres, frontal assaults, and shadowy covert actions shaped America’s approach to geopolitics and war.
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March 2012
Audio
The Draft Riots, Part II
March 15th, 2012
1 hour 9 minutes
Edna Greene Medford
Carla Peterson
Barnet Schecter
Harold Holzer (moderator)
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Four experts examine the causes of the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863, its sickening violence, and the enduring legacy it left on New York.
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March 2012
Audio
Steve Jobs
March 6th, 2012
1 hour, 4 minutes
Walter Isaacson
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Walter Isaacson tells the story of the roller-coaster life and searing personality of Steve Jobs, a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six technological industries.
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