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John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Q-90.1 FM, Delta College Quality Public Radio.

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    Hiram Bingham - Cradle of Gold

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2023 4:00


    Machu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.

    Sir Thomas Browne - In Search of Thomas Browne

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2023 5:00


    Return with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man responsible for bringing many of these words into the English language.

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    Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 4:00


    There is a select group of people who have become prominent in history because of one brief moment in their lives. For abolitionist Congressman Charles Sumner, that moment was being assaulted with a cane by a furious Southern senator.

    Robert the Bruce: King of Scots

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2023 4:31


    King Edward of England's brutal execution of William Wallace was meant to intimidate the Scots, but instead it inflamed them and a new leader arose: Robert the Bruce.

    John Hay - All the Great Prizes by John Taliaferro

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 5:30


    John Hay would serve every Republican administration from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt even though he was never elected to office himself.

    Frida Kahlo by Jack Rummel

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2023 4:34


    There is a cliché that artists must struggle, but Frida Kahlo must hold the world record.

    Socrates - The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2023 5:30


    How could the famously enlightened city of Athens execute one of its most outstanding citizens? A reporter covers a trial held 2,400 years ago in this book.

    Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Pt. 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2023 4:30


    Today's review covers the second half of Walt Disney's career, following up on the success of Mickey Mouse and Snow White.

    Dr. Martin Couney - The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2022 4:30


    A century ago you could see many bizarre sideshows on the boardwalk at Coney Island. But one of these was not an act, but a system that saved thousands of premature babies.

    George Gershwin by Walter Rimler

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2022 4:30


    Years ago, I read a fine biography of Gershwin, but I decided to read a more recent one and, sure enough, I'm impressed by Gershwin all over again.

    Dylan Thomas - Dylan the Bard by Andrew Sinclair

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2022 4:30


    Dylan Thomas wasn't just a star. He was a supernova blazing before us before flaming out.

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    Dashiell Hammett by Diane Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2022 5:00


    The American detective story with its hardboiled protagonist walking the mean streets was invented by Dashiell Hammett.

    Johnny Appleseed by Howard Means

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2022 5:00


    Johnny Appleseed might be the best known figure from America's past that most people know almost nothing about (and one that many believe to be a myth).

    Walt Disney - The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler, Pt. 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 5:30


    There are many people with TV shows named after them, but only a few have entire networks, and only Walt Disney transformed American culture.

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    Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln at Gettysburg by Gary Wills

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2022 5:00


    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.

    Frank Lloyd Wright by Robert Twombly

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2022 5:30


    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.

    Milman Parry - Hearing Homer's Song by Robert Kanigel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2022 5:30


    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.

    Salka Viertel - The Sun and Her Stars by Donna Rifkind

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 5:30


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

    His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 5:30


    The second part of our review of His Excellency, George Washington.

    His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis, Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 5:30


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

    Robert Goddard

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2021 4:59


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

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    Hatshepsut: The Female Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2021 4:30


    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.

    Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2021 5:30


    Trial lawyers are popular protagonists in TV and movies, but few are celebrated in biographies, except for Clarence Darrow.

    Gen. Alexandre Dumas - The Black Count by Tom Reiss

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2021 4:30


    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.

    Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2021 5:00


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

    Julius Rosenwald by by Hasia R. Diner

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 5:00


    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.

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    Lionel Logue - The King's Speech by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 5:00


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

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    Raymond Chandler - The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank McShane

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 4:30


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

    Johann Sebastian Bach - Bach: Everyman's Library by Peter Washington

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2021 4:30


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

    James McNeill Whistler - Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake by Daniel E. Sutherland

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 5:00


    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.

    Ibn Battuta - The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Abridged and Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 4:31


    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.

    Thomas Jefferson - Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson by Hugh Howard

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2020 4:30


    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.

    Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel by Judith Morgan

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2019 5:00


    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.

    Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology by Constance McLaughlin Green

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2019 5:00


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

    Solomon Northup - Twelve Years a Slave

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2019 3:59


    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.

    Amelia Earhardt - 20 Hrs., 40 Min.

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2019 4:00


    Amelia Earhardt wrote only one book about herself and the flight that made her famous.

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    Voltaire by A.J. Ayer

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 4:30


    Voltaire was born on the brink of the Age of Enlightenment and became the star of that era.

    Alfred the Great - Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources (Penguin Classics)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 4:00


    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.

    Frank Oldfield - Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society by William Oldfield & Victoria Bruce

    Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2019 4:30


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

    Antonio Stradivari - Stradivari's Genius by Toby Faber

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2019 4:00


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

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    William Herschel - The Georgian Star by Michael Lemonick

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2019 4:00


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

    David Hosack - American Eden by Victoria Johnson

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2018 4:00


    We've featured doctors and gardeners before on Lifelines, but David Hosack was both.

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