Podcast John August

The story of Abraham Lincoln is best take in small doses and today's book focuses on the events leading up to and including the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

It seems wrong to call Frank Lloyd Wright a "modern" architect - he was born just two years after the end of the Civil War. But he lived a long life and some of his buildings still look something that landed from outer space.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Is it possible that The Iliad and The Odyssey, with over 25,000 lines between them, originated in oral tradition rather than written texts? This is the story of a young Classics student who set out to prove it.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, who created a refuge for famous figures escaping World War ll.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

The second part of our review of His Excellency, George Washington.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

After 13 years of this program, we are finally getting around to the first and most important leader in American history.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

The first person to attain the grand status of rocket scientist was Robert Goddard, a pioneer who laid the groundwork for space travel.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

The name of Hatshepsut, a woman who declared herself king of Egypt, was scratched out of the hieroglyphics, but her story is told in this week's biography.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Trial lawyers are popular protagonists in TV and movies, but few are celebrated in biographies, except for Clarence Darrow.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

You've likely never heard of General Alexandre Dumas, but his life served as inspiration for the swashbuckling adventure stories written by his famous son.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph is of a weather-beaten migrant mother whose face is burned into the American soul.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

An immigrant peddler's son, Julius Rosenwald headed to Chicago and eventually became the head of one of the most successful companies in the world.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Would you be interested in a biography of the world's most famous speech therapist, a man you may already be familiar with?Bởi Delta College Public Radio

America's take on the detective novel gave us hard-boiled figures like Raymond Chandler's gumshoe Philip Marlowe.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Bach is the grandmaster of German baroque, but so little is known about Bach's life that after his death, he almost disappeared!Bởi Delta College Public Radio

One of the world's most famous paintings is "Whistler's Mother" by James McNeill Whistler, except that it isn't, even though she is.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Shortly after the time of Marco Polo, another traveler from Morocco set out on the Hajj to Mecca and ended up traveling to many more places.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Some lives can't be squeezed into a single book, so it's nice to find a biography that focuses on an aspect of a life.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Most Americans get through the year without reading a single poem, even though millions of them were raised on the work of America's most successful poet.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Every American schoolchild could tell you that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, but he did so much more.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Solomon Northup was a free man in New York who was kidnapped, sold, and resold as a slave for 12 years in the plantations near New Orleans.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Amelia Earhardt wrote only one book about herself and the flight that made her famous.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Voltaire was born on the brink of the Age of Enlightenment and became the star of that era.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Over 1,000 years ago there lived an English king who was not supposed to be king, but he turned out to be perhaps the most important ruler in British history.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Before the FBI, the first organized crime syndicate in America was confronted by an inspector for the US Post Office.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Stradivari built some of the finest and most famous instruments ever made, including the violins that bear his name.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

William Herschel began as a talented musician and, through math, became a brilliant astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

We've featured doctors and gardeners before on Lifelines, but David Hosack was both.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Few creators were ever as consistent in their creation as America's greatest portraitist.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Everyone remembers Houdini, but in his day, Howard Thurston was considered the King of Magic.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

There is no shortage of biographies on Groucho Marx, but most are too worshipful or fail to separate him from his brothers.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Jim Thorpe was the only American athlete to play professional baseball and football as well as to win Olympic gold for track and field.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Thomas Jefferson was widely considered the most outstanding writer among the Founding Fathers, but they turned to another eloquent member to write the Preamble to the Constitution.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

He was the most successful world conqueror in history, but there's a good chance you've never heard of him.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

When a British scholar died with his work on the Oxford English Dictionary incomplete, the reins were picked up by an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

This week, we look at an ill-fated expedition former President Teddy Roosevelt took into the Amazon.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

If you $1 million, what would you buy with it? For Henry Folger, the answer was Shakespeare.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

Goya was a school of one with no rivals in his native Spain and few elsewhere.Bởi Delta College Public Radio

The 1600s were a time of religious intolerance and Anne Hutchinson was persecuted for challenging the exclusively male clergy.Bởi Delta College Public Radio