The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
By Madeleine Albright, Ken Burns, Jon Meacham, David M. Rubenstein, Douglas Brinkley, Drew Galpin Faust, Walter Isaacson, Sonia Sotomayor, Henry Louis Gates, and others
Read by Madeleine Albright, Rita Moreno, Wynton Marsalis, Ken Burns, Jon Meacham, David M. Rubenstein, Billie Jean King, and a full cast
The American Experiment Series: Book 3
Unabridged
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$49.99
ISBN: 9781797130255
| Runtime: | 15.05 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A Wall Street Journal bestseller
Bestselling author and cofounder of the Carlyle Group David M. Rubenstein explores the story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas through captivating conversations with celebrated American icons.
Hailed as “the right book at the right time” by Tom Brokaw and “a stirring reminder” by Katie Couric, The American Experiment features inspiring and informative interviews with:
- KEN BURNS
- HENRY LOUIS GATES JR
- JON MEACHAM
- WALTER ISAACSON
- DAVID McCULLOUGH
- WYNTON MARSALIS
- BILLIE JEAN KING
- RITA MORENO
The American Experiment reveals the setbacks, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937-2022) served as America’s sixty-fourth secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, the first woman to hold that position. Her distinguished career also includes positions on Capitol Hill, on the National Security Council, and as US ambassador to the United Nations. She also wrote several New York Times bestselling books.
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Author Bio: Ken Burns
Ken Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs. His documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards, and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Author Bio: Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including three that have made their #1 bestsellers list. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor of Time magazine, and he holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University
Author Bio: David M. Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is the New York Times bestselling author, host of The David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg TV and PBS, an original signer of The Giving Pledge, and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award. He is chairman of the boards of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is cofounder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms.
Author Bio: Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley is an acclaimed historian and award-winning author of many books, including six New York Times bestsellers. The Chicago Tribune dubbed him “America’s New Past Master.” His book The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was awarded a Grammy for Presidential Suite and his two-volume, annotated Nixon Tapes recently won the Arthur S. Link–Warren F. Kuehl Prize. Other awards he has won include the Frances K. Hutchison Medal, Robin W. Winks Award for Enhancing Public Understanding of National Parks, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Lifetime Heritage Award. He is the recipient of seven honorary doctorates in American studies.
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Author Bio: Drew Galpin Faust
Drew Gilpin Faust is the author of several books, including the New York Times bestselling This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize. A former dean and university president, she is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
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Author Bio: Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is the author of highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including several biographies that have made the #1 spot on the New York Times bestsellers list. A professor of history at Tulane University, he has been CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair of CNN, and editor of Time. Visit him at Isaacson.Tulane.edu.
Author Bio: Sonia Sotomayor
Sonja Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 1976, and from Yale Law School in 1979. She worked as assistant district attorney in New York and then at the law firm of Pavia & Harcourt. From 1992 to 2009, she served as a judge on the US District Court, Southern District of New York, and from 1998, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In May 2009, President Barack Obama nominated her as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; she assumed this role on August 8, 2009.
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Author Bio: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder. He has authored or coauthored more than twenty books, including Stony the Road, The Black Church, and The Black Box, and created more than twenty documentary films, including his groundbreaking genealogy series Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and an NAACP Image Award. This series and his PBS documentary series Reconstruction: America after the Civil War were both honored with the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award. His most recent PBS documentary is Gospel. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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| Available Formats : | Retail CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/History |
| Runtime: | 15.05 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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