Oct 14 Watch In ‘Innovators,’ Isaacson tells story of digital revolutionaries By PBS News Hour After profiling visionary individuals like Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson has turned his attention to a whole group of creative minds, weaving the tale of the many inventive thinkers who launched the digital revolution. Judy Woodruff sits… Continue watching
Oct 14 Walter Isaacson on confronting morality, innovation and privacy in the digital age By Jordan Vesey In his new book “The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution,” Walter Isaacson outlines the most crucial inventions of the digital age. Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Walter Isaacson on confronting morality, innovation and privacy in the digital age By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 13 James Risen: Government crackdown on whistleblowers bad for democracy By Morgan Till Author and journalist James Risen bores into the many costs of the so-called “War on Terror” in his new book “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War." The toll is a heavy one in Risen’s telling -- he weaves… Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch We all die, so why don’t we die well? By PBS News Hour Modern medicine has a fundamental failure in its approach toward aging and dying, says Dr. Atul Gawande: “We don't recognize that people have priorities besides just living longer.” Gawande, a surgeon and the author of a new book, "Being Mortal:… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch 8:44 Panetta: Time of unprecedented threat calls for debate on leadership By PBS News Hour Leon Panetta was involved in the war on terror, the assassination of Osama bin Laden and the wind-down of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now the former CIA director and defense secretary is out with a memoir that has… Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch Stop expecting American presidents to be great and allow them to be good, says author By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 08 For readers young and old, YA is A-OK By Tracy Wholf Young adult fiction is one of the most successful categories of book sales for the publishing industry today, and authors who've traditionally wrote for an older crowd have begun to dip their pen in YA ink. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch Gillibrand calls for more women to raise their voices and get involved in public life By PBS News Hour As one of only 20 women currently serving in the Senate, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has focused on addressing sexual assault in the military and on college campuses. In her new book, "Off the Sidelines: Raise Your Voice, Change… Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch Lev Grossman’s ‘Magicians’ series casts spell on adult readers By PBS News Hour Lev Grossman’s bestselling series “The Magicians” proves that fantasy literature isn’t only for kids, having captured a new generation of readers with new worlds and mature, complicated characters. Grossman joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and why the genre… Continue watching