Experts bring to life the Battle of Brooklyn and reveal how, thanks to the heroism of the “Immortal 400,” the Continental Army lived to fight another day.
Duration: 56:51
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October 2016
Audio
The Battle of Brooklyn
October 20th, 2016
Patrick K. O’Donnell, Richard Brookhiser (moderator)
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October 2016
Audio
Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet
October 19th, 2016
Jeffrey Rosen, Akhil Reed Amar (moderator)
Judicial experts discuss the pioneering Justice’s lasting impact on the right to privacy, corporate regulation, and freedom of speech.
Duration: 1:04:27
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October 2016
Audio & Video
History with David M. Rubenstein: A Conversation with Jeffrey Toobin
October 16th, 2016
Jeffrey Toobin, David M. Rubenstein (moderator)
Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst, in conversation with American philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, discusses the story of Patty Hearst, the young heiress to the Hearst family fortune who was kidnapped by renegade leftist revolutionaries and later prosecuted in one of the most ludicrous trials in American legal history.
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October 2016
Audio
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
October 8th, 2016
Joseph Lelyveld, David Nasaw (moderator)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld considers Roosevelt’s public and personal strife, redefining the enigmatic President’s legacy.
Duration: 01:31:25
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October 2016
Audio
John Quincy Adams Debate
October 5th, 2016
James Traub, Robert Kagan
Author James Traub and historian Robert Kagan debate the legacy of America’s sixth president, a leader with steadfast moral principles that led paradoxically to both his political collapse and widespread veneration.
Duration: 01:01:16
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