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  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.
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  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.
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  Ron Chernow.

  Ron Chernow stands next to a bust of John D. Rockefeller at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
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  Nadine Cohodas.

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

  Representative John Lewis in his congressional office on Capitol Hill.
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  John Lewis.

  Representative John Lewis in his congressional office on Capitol Hill.
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  Jon Katz.

  Jon Katz in front of Thomas Paine's cottage in New Rochelle, New York. The house is run by the Huguenot Historical Society and is the site of Paine's original grave. In his book Virtuous Reality, Jon Katz tells us how some of Paine's bones were dug from this grave and carted off to Europe.
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  Jon Katz.

  Jon Katz in front of Thomas Paine's cottage in New Rochelle, New York. The house is run by the Huguenot Historical Society and is the site of Paine's original grave. In his book Virtuous Reality, Jon Katz tells us how some of Paine's bones were dug from this grave and carted off to Europe.
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  Charles Fecher.

  Charles Fecher in the Mencken room at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. A portrait of journalist H.L. Mencken hangs on the wall behind him.
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  Robert Caro.

  Robert Caro in his office on West 57th Street in Manhattan. On his desk is a Smith Corona typewriter that is no longer manufactured. He has seventeen of them which he uses for spare parts.
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  Leon Dash.

  Leon Dash stands in front of a McDonald's restaurant in Northeast D.C., where the author met with Rosa Lee Cunningham after her methadone treatments from a nearby clinic.
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  Leon Dash.

  Leon Dash stands in the median of a Washington, D.C. street with the U.S. Capitol in the background.
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  Former President George H.W. Bush, Carol Hellwig, and Brent Scowcroft.

  President George Bush, C-SPAN staffer Carol Hellwig, and Brent Scowcroft in C-SPAN's Booknotes studio.
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  John S.D. Eisenhower.

  John S.D. Eisenhower stands next to a bust of General Winfield Scott on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
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  Frank McCourt.

  Frank McCourt in a classroom at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan. He spent thirty-two years there teaching English.
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  Frank McCourt.

  Frank McCourt in a classroom at Stuyvesant High School in lower Manhattan. He spent thirty-two years there teaching English.
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  C-SPAN "Book Team".

  C-SPAN's "book team" - front: Lea Anne Long; second row: Susan Swain & Robin Scullin; third row: Carol Hellwig & Anne Bentzel.
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  Robert Merry.

  Robert Merry at Joseph Alsop's former Georgetown house. Here the Alsops entertained journalists, presidents, and many other Washington notables.
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  Robert McNamara.

  Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in his I Street office in downtown Washington, D.C.
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  Katharine Graham.

  Katharine Graham at her desk in her Georgetown home where she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Personal History.
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  Sylvia Morris.

  Sylvia Jukes Morris did her writing and research for 'Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce' in her home on Capitol Hill. Here she is at her desk in her Capitol Hill townhouse.
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  Edmund Morris.

  Edmund Morris poses with the Ronald Reagan research cards he keeps in his desk at home on Capitol Hill. He used these cards when writing his book "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan."
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  Joseph McCarthy - dust jacket
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  Booknotes cover image
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  Sundays at Eight cover image