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• John Lewis.

  Representative John Lewis in his congressional office on Capitol Hill.
• Nadine Cohodas.

  Nadine Cohodas in C-SPAN's studio control room. On screen is Senator Strom Thurmond presiding over the Senate.
• Ron Chernow.

  Ron Chernow stands next to a bust of John D. Rockefeller at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
• David Levering Lewis.

  David Levering Lewis in his New York City apartment. On the desk is a miniature of Winged Victory - a favorite sculpture of W.E.B. Du Bois.
• Carol Reardon.

  Carol Reardon, a Civil War author and professor at Penn State, sits on the wall that Confederate soldiers unsuccessfully attempted to take in Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• James Tobin.

  James Tobin at the Ernie Pyle exhibit at the Newseum in Rosslyn, Virginia.
• Robert Merry.

  Robert Merry stands in the living room of Joseph Alsop's former Georgetown house. Here the Alsops entertained journalists, presidents, and many other Washington notables.
• Blanche Wiesen Cook.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook with the statue of Eleanor Roosevelt which stands in Riverside Park in New York City. The sculpture was crafted by Penelope Jencks and was dedicated by Hillary Clinton on October 5, 1996.
• Katharine Graham.

  Katharine Graham in her Georgetown home where she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Personal History.
• Lloyd Kramer.

  Lloyd Kramer at a monument dedicated to the American Revolution in Lafayette Square Park in Washington, D.C.
• Lloyd Kramer.

  Lloyd Kramer, with the White House behind him, sits in the park named for the Marquis de Lafayette.
• Anita Hill.

  Anita Hill and her nephew Eric Fennell inside the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
• Anita Hill.

  Anita Hill signs an autograph in Kansas City, Missouri, as her nephew Eric Fennell looks on.
• Sam Tanenhaus.

  Sam Tanenhaus holds a rusty hatchet found in the yard of Whittaker Chambers's childhood home in Lynbrook, Long Island.
• Sam Tanenhaus.

  Sam Tanenhaus is pictured in front of Whittaker Chambers's childhood home in Lynbrook, Long Island.
• Monica Crowley.

  Monica Crowley at the former Nixon home in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. President Nixon lived here for ten years. Ms. Crowley's second book on Nixon was published in 1998.
• Neil Baldwin.

  Neil Baldwin standing at Edison's grave at Glenmont, the West Orange, New Jersey estate of Thomas Edison.
• Neil Baldwin.

  Neil Baldwin in Thomas Edison's laboratory. The national historic site is located in West Orange, New Jersey, and is open to visitors.
• Edward Epstein.

  Edward Epstein in his Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan. Behind him is a portrait of Mr. Epstein painted in 1977 by Byron Dobell. Mr. Epstein is holding tapes of Armand Hammer's phone conversations.
• Robert Richardson.

  Robert Richardson at Ralph Waldo Emerson's home in Concord, Massachusetts.
• David Reynolds.

  David Reynolds stands in front of the brown-shingled house in Old Westbury, New York, where Walt Whitman was born.
• Betty Friedan.

  Feminist activist Betty Friedan in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Behind her is a 26,000-pound sculpture of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, all three leaders in the woman's movement. Following an act of Congress, the statue was moved from the Capitol's Crypt to the Rotunda in May 1997.
• Juan Williams.

  Juan Williams in the Supreme Court of the United States. A portrait of Thurgood Marshall hangs behind him.
• Robert Bartley.

  Robert Bartley, author of Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again, in his Wall Street Journal office on Liberty Street in New York's financial district. He was the editorial page editor of the paper from 1972 to 2002.
• Edmund Morris.

  Edmund Morris stands in front of a painted profile of President Ronald Reagan which hangs on the wall of his Capitol Hill townhouse. The painting is by Tom Bostelle. Morris wrote Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.