Known as the greatest "record man" who ever lived, Ahmet Ertegun's life comprised the history of 20th Century popular music in America.
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Ahmet Ertegun: Atlantic Records
Frank Gehry: Sketches of Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry loves to sketch. It is the beginning of his architectural process.
Albert Einstein: How I See the World
Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time.
Bob Dylan: About the Film
This film focuses on Dylan’s life and music from the 60s, includes never-seen performance footage, interviews with artists whose lives intertwined with his.
Aretha Franklin: About Aretha Franklin
American Masters tributes “The Queen of Soul” Ms. Aretha Franklin.
John Ford and John Wayne: Pappy and the Duke
Ford and Wayne, a friendship and professional collaboration that spanned 50 years, changed each others' lives, the movies, and the way America saw itself.
Ernest Hemingway: Reflections on Ernest Hemingway
When Joseph Conrad died, Ernest Hemingway, by way of an obituary notice, wrote a little piece in the TRANSATLANTIC REVIEW, in October 1924, and what he said was that if it could be shown that by grinding T. S. Eliot down to a fine powder, and by sprinkling the powder upon Conrad's grave, then Conrad would immediately jump out of his grave and commence to write, then he, Hemingway, would leave for London immediately with a sausage grinder in his luggage.
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Essay: The Crack-Up
The following is an excerpt from the essay "The Crack-Up," reprinted from The Crack-Up, a compilation of articles written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in one book by New Directions Publishing.
Ralph Ellison: An American Journey
In writing INVISIBLE MAN in the late 1940s, Ralph Ellison brought onto the scene a new kind of black protagonist, one at odds with the characters of the leading black novelist at the time, Richard Wright.




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