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History tv, every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Americasreated by Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Next on American History tv, Nancy Thorndike greenspan talks about her book atomics by the dark lives of klaus fuchs. The Leon Levy Center for biography hosted this event and provided the video. She explains how she discovered klaus fuchs while researching her previous book. Lets go at it. I was asking you why klaus fuchs. I was interested in him when i was working on my previous book. Papers. Lot of family diaries...

Newsday in the 19 sixties and the book was supposed to be done in nine months. It took seven years in the publisher gave in advance of 2500 he became consumed by his research and quit his job five years later he submitted the first 400,000 words and asked for a second payment of 2500. He was refused a so their home to support this work and then to remain his soul publisher and what a Remarkable Book it is with the sheer narrative power he is an astonishing writer and the powerbroker is a masterpiece one of the most important biographies of the 20h century bob caro has twice won the Pulitzer Pr...

You are watching book tv on cspan 2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. Book tv, television for serious readers. [applause] good morning. Im director of the center for learning, literacy and engagement at the library of congress. One of the major programs of this new center at the library is oversight of the National Book festival, whose overall theme this year is change makers. This is why im especially excited to introduce our new panel devoted to change makers. The focus of much of the programming at the library of congress this year. We are currently celebrating change mak...

Celebrate. Rachel swarns for the 72, the families who were enslaved and sold to the American Catholic church in 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic. Sold 272 enslaved people to their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking, professor swarns follows family through nearly two centuries of indentured and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of, the Catholic Church in the united states. Rachel swarns is a journalist author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and Race Relations as ...

Celebrate. Rachel swarns for the 72, the families who were enslaved and sold to the American Catholic church in 1838, a group of americas most prominent catholic. Sold 272 enslaved people to their largest mission project, which is now georgetown university. In this groundbreaking, professor swarns follows family through nearly two centuries of indentured and enslavement to uncover the harrowing origin story of, the Catholic Church in the united states. Rachel swarns is a journalist author and associate professor of journalism at new york university, who writes about race and Race Relations as ...