Harvey Kaye talks with Steve Paulson about visionary founding father Thomas Paine.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Geraldine Brooks has written a novel which creates a fictional history for a real book – the remarkable, rare, illuminated Jewish manuscript known as the Sarajevo Haggadah.
In his book, City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, P.D. Smith writes that city living has shaped humanity's past and laid the foundation for our future.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez commanded Coalition Forces during the capture of Saddam Hussein, the revelation about Abu Ghraib and on April 6, 2004.
For his book "Evicted: Poverty And Profit In the American City," Harvard sociologist Matthew Desmond spent more than a year living in some of Milwaukee's poorest black and white neighborhoods. He says evictions lock entire families into an endless cycle of poverty, and are far more common than they used to be.
Harriet Brown had a smart, happy daughter who was stricken in adolescence by anorexia.
What's behind the popularity of historical fantasy? George R. R. Martin, father of "Game of Thrones" has a theory.
Gretchen Reynolds talks with Jim Fleming about the theories concerning running and the body.
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