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A. Scott Berg: Chronicler of The American Century
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer began writing his first book when he was still in college (it earned the National Book Award), and he has devoted each of the last five decades to telling the life story of one 20th Century American giant: Charles Lindbergh, Woodrow Wilson, Katharine Hepburn, Samuel Goldwyn and Maxwell Perkins. Scott Berg tells some of the most fascinating stories from his subjects' lives here, and he describes the joys of his own life - as a researcher, a writer, and a detective of history.
Released:
May 6, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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