Lifelines with John Augustine - Delta College Public Radio Podcast
1) Voltaire by A.J. Ayer
Voltaire was born on the brink of the Age of Enlightenment and became the star of that era.
2) George Gershwin
It's remarkable to realize that Gershwin, the favorite American modernist composer, was born when many Civil War veterans were still alive. Support Delta College Public Radio: https://www.deltabroadc...Show More
3) Edgar Allen Poe
There is a mystery around the death of Edgar Allen Poe and John Walsh is convinced he has solved the case.
4) Horatio Nelson Jackson
In 1903, on a $50 bet, Horatio Nelson Jackson set out on the first journey by car from San Francisco to New York.
5) Samuel Pepys
The most famous English diarist, Samuel Pepys, lived in the 1600s and the phrase "may you live in interesting times" certainly applies.
6) 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin
If there's a 20th century world champion subject for biography, it would have to be Winston Churchill. Fortunately, a small door has been opened by Gretchen Rubin and her book, "40 Ways to Look at Win...Show More
7) Sir Isaac Newton
For 2000 years, the great scientific authority in the West was Aristotle. But by the time the Pilgrims were landing at Plymouth Rock, a new age of science was in bud, and Newton would be an example of...Show More
8) The Travels of William Wells Brown
Today's book combines two autobiographical pieces: one a travelogue of Europe and an account of the first World's Fair, the other an account of growing up in and escaping from slavery.
9) Yip Harburg
One of the great collaborators on the Great American Songbook was lyricist Yip Harbug.
10) Lady Constance Lytton
Lady Constance Lytton was a British aristocrat and suffragette who shed her noble trappings to go on a hunger strike for women's right to vote.