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David Lubin examines contemporaneous painting, photography, and popular illustration to show how artists deployed visual imagery to support or oppose American involvement in the First World War.
Diane Ackerman reads from her poems “School Prayer,” “Climate Change,” “We Die,” “Beija-flor,” and “Ode to the Alien,” followed by an excerpt from her narrative The Zookeeper’s Wife (2007).
Robert Edsel discusses his recent book of photographic essays—the first comprehensive visual documentation of Hitler and the Nazis’ theft of Europe’s great art and its extraordinary rescue by the United States and its Allies. He also recounts his efforts to locate and honor the “Monuments Men,” the group of approximately four hundred men and women whose heroic actions saved much of Western culture.
Stanford University historian David Kennedy discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (1999).
Foreign policy experts Juan Cole, George Packer, Anthony Shadid, and Rory Stewart agree that the United States should leave Iraq. They hash out their differences, though, as to how and when we should leave.