Julie Nixon Eisenhower and David Eisenhower talk about the life and post-White-House years of David’s grandfather, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Also Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Powers discusses Crazy Horse and the controversy that still surrounds his death. Then, Lily Rabe and Oskar Eustis tell about moving the Public Theater’s production of “The Merchant of Venice” from Central Park, to Broadway! Plus, a look at how climate change is altering the Antarctic landscape through the lives of penguins.
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The Killing of Crazy Horse
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Intelligence Wars: American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York Review Books Collections)
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The man who kept the secrets: Richard Helms & the CIA
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Heisenberg's War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas Powers discusses Crazy Horse, the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century whose victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. In The Killing of Crazy Horse, Powers pieces together his death, which has remained a controversy for more than a century.
View the webpage for this particular episode and show, here. See also:
An Inside Passage (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
