THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV's The David Rubenstein Show--American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more. In this lively collection of conversations--the third in a series from David Rubenstein--some of our nations' greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas.
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Jill Lepore on the promise of America
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Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant
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Ken Burns on war
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction
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Elaine Weiss on suffrage
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John Meacham on civil rights
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Walter Isaacson on innovation
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David McCullough on the Wright Brothers
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John Barry on pandemics and public health
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Wynton Marsalis on music
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Billie Jean King on sports
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Rita Moreno on film
Exploring the diverse make-up of our country's DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants,
The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is--and what it can be.