Day-After-Thanksgiving Dive into History

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 27, 2020

In this year like no other in history, enjoy this excursion through some of our best interviews with historians from our history:

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin on her book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon & Schuster, 2005);
  • Ron Chernow, on his biography Grant (Penguin Press, 2017);
  • the late Studs Terkel, oral historian extraordinaire, at the grand opening of the StoryCorps booth in Grand Central;
  • Kevin Young , poet, director of the NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and New Yorker poetry editor, on Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press, 2017);
  • Sarah Vowell's take on Lafayette in the Somewhat United States (Riverhead Books, 2015)
  • Ted Gioia, music critic and historian on Love Songs: The Hidden History (Oxford University Press, 2015).

These interviews were edited slightly for time, the original versions are available here:

Honest Abe - (10/25/05)
Heroes and Villains of History - (10/20/17)
Wild Turkel - (11/28/03)
The Interlaced History of Hoaxes and Race - (11/15/17)
A Teenaged French General in the American Revolution - (10/20/15)
There's Nothing 'Silly' About Love Songs - (3/4/2015)






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