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In this portrait of Planet Earth, biologist Stanley A. Rice discusses the evolution of the global network of life and the crucial role played by humans in determining the future of our world.
The author of "In the Basement of the Ivory Tower" talks to the Independent about what he learned as an adjunct professor teaching introductory literature and composition.
Given unprecedented access, thousands of pages of once secret documents, and hundreds of interviews, Garrett M. Graff takes us inside the FBI and its attempt to protect America.
Debby Applegate won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday). She’s at work now on Madam: The Notorious Life and Times of Polly Adler, forthcoming from Knopf. Charles Shields spoke with her about making history and biography vivid.
The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Independent's David Stewart talks with the noted biographer of, among others, Joseph Pulitzer
Ward Just discusses the story and characters of his emotionally potent new novel.
Nigel Hamilton, biographer of presidents and others, talks with Charles J. Shields about the revolutions in the Arab world through the perspective of American history.
