All posts in Historians

Gary Marlon Suson

By | 01/2012 | 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
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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 in which people had perished. Read more…

Michael Beschloss

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

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

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. DeFrank provides a glimpse of the executive office very few get to see, with a highly anecdotal and conversational look at presidential personalities. DeFrank reveals the human (and humorous) side of the office, as well as an assessment of Congress, the 2010 midterm elections and current Washington politics. In a presentation punctuated with amusing anecdotes, Tom DeFrank provides a penetrating look at current events and the Washington political scene. Read more…

Eric Foner

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

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…

Ken Burns

By | 01/2011 | BUSINESS, Celebrities / Media Personalities, Creativity, ENTERTAINMENT, Filmmakers, Historians, Journalists, MISCELLANEOUS, Patriotism | Comments Off
Ken Burns

One of the most recognizable and popular documentary filmmakers, Ken Burns chronicles those aspects of U.S. history that make us uniquely American. An iconic figure on PBS, Burns is the creator, director and producer of numerous award-winning documentaries, including Jazz, The Civil War, Baseball and most recently, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Burns has also focused his lens on a number of other topics, including The War, an intimate look at the years 1941-1945, Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, which tells the story of the two women who spearheaded the women’s rights movement in America; Frank Lloyd Wright, the story of America’s foremost architectural genius; and Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, which chronicles the first official expedition into the uncharted wilds of the United States. Burns was also co-producer of Mark Twain, a four-hour portrait of one of America’s funniest and most popular writers. A compelling storyteller, Burns speaks on these topics as well as the creative process. Read more…

Niall Ferguson

By | 01/2011 | Authors, Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Financial Markets, Global Economy/Trade, Globalization, Historians | Comments Off
Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of the world’s leading historians of the global economy and author of such internationally-acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power and The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, is an international bestseller and the basis for a multipart television documentary that won the International Emmy Award for best documentary. His most recent book High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg chronicles the life of one of the world’s most prominent merchant bankers. Controversial, expansive, and eloquent, Ferguson has been called “the most talented British historian of his generation.” But the ambitious themes he explores in his work have urgent relevance to the present as well as the past: the costs and benefits of economic globalization; the interface between finance and politics; the lessons to be learned from the British experience of empire; and most recently, the strengths and limitation of American global power. Read more…