John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Delta College Public Radio.
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One of the great collaborators on the Great American Songbook was lyricist Yip Harbug.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Lady Constance Lytton was a British aristocrat and suffragette who shed her noble trappings to go on a hunger strike for women's right to vote.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Only one Native American chief won a negotiation with the U.S. government: the Apache leader, Cochise.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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How many great novels should a writer be expected to produce to qualify as a great novelist? Thomas Hardy wrote a half-dozen acknowledged classics still read for pleasure and taught in universities though he has been dead for 100 years.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Albert Barnes - The House of Barnes by Neil L. Rudenstine
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Early in the twentieth century, Albert Barnes created a fiefdom in suburban Philadelphia that embraced his grand house, his art museum, his school for fine arts appreciation, and his ego.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Born into slavery when it was still legal in New York, Sojourner Truth was a powerful orator on faith, women's rights, and the abolition of slavery.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Early sailors could navigate by latitude to sail east and west, but sailing north or south was much more difficult until John Harrison solved the longitude problem.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Twelve generals have been U.S. president. Among them are George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and today's subject, Dwight D. Eisenhower.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Many people contributed to the idea of a computer being a machine rather than an occupation, but the biggest leap forward came from Alan Turing.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Authors who spread the Protestant Reformation risked censorship, imprisonment, or even death, including Michael Servetus, who was burned alive along with most copies of his book.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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In the late 1950s, white author John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a Black man to experience the state of race relations in the segregated South from the other side.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
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While Kosciuszko's family was part of Poland's upper 10%, this military leader's sympathies were for the disenfranchised.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Machu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Return with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man responsible for bringing many of these words into the English language.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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There is a select group of people who have become prominent in history because of one brief moment in their lives. For abolitionist Congressman Charles Sumner, that moment was being assaulted with a cane by a furious Southern senator.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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King Edward of England's brutal execution of William Wallace was meant to intimidate the Scots, but instead it inflamed them and a new leader arose: Robert the Bruce.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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John Hay would serve every Republican administration from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt even though he was never elected to office himself.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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There is a cliché that artists must struggle, but Frida Kahlo must hold the world record.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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How could the famously enlightened city of Athens execute one of its most outstanding citizens? A reporter covers a trial held 2,400 years ago in this book.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Pt. 2
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Today's review covers the second half of Walt Disney's career, following up on the success of Mickey Mouse and Snow White.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Dr. Martin Couney - The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel
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A century ago you could see many bizarre sideshows on the boardwalk at Coney Island. But one of these was not an act, but a system that saved thousands of premature babies.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Years ago, I read a fine biography of Gershwin, but I decided to read a more recent one and, sure enough, I'm impressed by Gershwin all over again.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Dylan Thomas wasn't just a star. He was a supernova blazing before us before flaming out.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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The American detective story with its hardboiled protagonist walking the mean streets was invented by Dashiell Hammett.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Johnny Appleseed might be the best known figure from America's past that most people know almost nothing about (and one that many believe to be a myth).저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Pt. 1
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There are many people with TV shows named after them, but only a few have entire networks, and only Walt Disney transformed American culture.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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The story of Abraham Lincoln is best take in small doses and today's book focuses on the events leading up to and including the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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It seems wrong to call Frank Lloyd Wright a "modern" architect - he was born just two years after the end of the Civil War. But he lived a long life and some of his buildings still look something that landed from outer space.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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Is it possible that The Iliad and The Odyssey, with over 25,000 lines between them, originated in oral tradition rather than written texts? This is the story of a young Classics student who set out to prove it.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, who created a refuge for famous figures escaping World War ll.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, Part 2
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The second part of our review of His Excellency, George Washington.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, Part 1
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After 13 years of this program, we are finally getting around to the first and most important leader in American history.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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The first person to attain the grand status of rocket scientist was Robert Goddard, a pioneer who laid the groundwork for space travel.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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The name of Hatshepsut, a woman who declared herself king of Egypt, was scratched out of the hieroglyphics, but her story is told in this week's biography.저자 Delta College Public Radio
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