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Gary Marlon Suson

By admin | 10/2011 | 9/11, Courage, Creativity, Historians, Inspiration, Inspiring Lives, Journalists, MISCELLANEOUS, Miscellaneous, Motivation, Overcomers / Adversity, Patriotism, Personal Development, Photographers, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Spouse Programs, Terrorism, The Arts, Vision | Comments Off

9/11 photographer Gary Marlon Suson lives in New York City. On September 11, 2001, his life, just as all American’s lives, was turned upside down by the attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. Initially, after photographing the Towers’ collapse from his rooftop, Suson returned to his studio, deciding he wasn’t going to shoot anything else having to do with this tragedy. He didn’t want the stress of being in the midst of the chaos taking pictures, and especially didn’t wish to be wrongly viewed as someone trying to exploit a situation. Read more…

Garrett Oliver

By admin | 08/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, CELEBRITIES, Creativity, Culinary, Emcees / Hosts, Historians, Innovation | Comments Off

Best-Selling Author Garrett Oliver is the brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery, the Editor-in-Chief of “The Oxford Companion to Beer“, and the author of the award-winning book “The Brewmaster’s Table.” He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on beer and brewing and has spoken at more than 800 events in 14 countries.

After years of amateur brewing inspired by beers he had encountered during a year in England, Garrett began brewing professionally at Manhattan Brewing Company in 1989 as an apprentice. Read more…

Gordon Wood

By admin | 03/2011 | BUSINESS, Education, Historians, Humanities, Pulitzer Prize Winners | Comments Off

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize, and in 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 2011, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama and the Churchill Bell by Colonial Williamsburg. Read more…

Michael Beschloss

By admin | 02/2011 | BUSINESS, CELEBRITIES, Courage, Election Analysis, Historians, HUMAN RESOURCES, Journalists, Leadership, POLITICS / WORLD AFFAIRS | Comments Off

Informative and revealing presidential anecdotes set against the backdrop of history, Michael Beschloss illuminates the leadership skills necessary for both political and business success, as he weaves colorful anecdotes and brilliant inside analysis of U.S. presidents with an informed, detailed understanding of their leadership styles. He provides a perspective on today’s leadership from the vantage-point of history; trained in leadership at the Harvard Business School, Beschloss demonstrates how the qualities of political leadership lend themselves to more effective leadership in business as well. Read more…

Tom DeFrank

By admin | 01/2011 | American Affairs, Authors, Celebrities / Media Personalities, Election Analysis, Historians, Journalists, Political Analysis, Political Media, POLITICS / WORLD AFFAIRS | Comments Off

An award-winning journalist who has covered the White House since 1970 and reported on the activities of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama, Tom DeFrank is the co-author of Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, the memoir of political consultant Ed Rollins and The Politics of Diplomacy, the memoirs of former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III. DeFrank’s latest book, The New York Times best-seller Write it When I’m Gone, is based on his 16 years of private interviews with President Ford. Read more…

Eric Foner

By admin | 01/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Historians, Leadership, Patriotism, Pulitzer Prize Winners | Comments Off

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of this country’s most prominent historians. He received his doctoral degree at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. He is one of only two persons to serve as president of the three major professional organizations: the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians, and one of a handful to have won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes in the same year. Read more…