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The man who shaped FDR's public image
The story of the first real presidential press secretary, Stephen T. Early, who came to the White House with Franklin Roosevelt in 1933.
Author and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Russian writer and dissident, whose works delivered a damning indictment of the Communist system, spent years years in labor camps before being denied denounced as a traitor, and exiled....
Summer reading picks
Thoughtful book suggestions from world-class authors Salman Rushdie, Sasa Stanisic and Tahmima Anam....
Bill Murray, poetry champion
While well known for his tenures with SCTV and Saturday Night Live, and for his numerous film appearances, Murray is less well-known for his support of poetry....
Richard Bausch talks about Peace
Bausch's "Peace" is the story of a company of American soldiers sent to confirm the retreat of the Germans at the end of WWII. ...
Salman Rushdie talks about The Enchantress of Florence
Rushdie's new book, "The Enchantress of Florence," is a feast of storytelling, alternately set in 16th-century Italy and India....
The American Story
Novelist Russell Banks ponders race, religion, capitalism and nationalism, and how these elements are essential to the American story....
Reading the World
An annual collaboration between publishers and independent booksellers spreads the word about international literature. ...
Elie Wiesel on 'Bob Edwards Weekend'
Bob spends an hour with Nobel Peace Prize winner, author, activist and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel....
Author! Author! Modern Classics
On "To the Best of Our Knowledge," authors Khaled Hosseini, Mikael Niemi, Jane Hamilton and others talk about, and read from their modern classics....
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