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Douglas Brinkley
Season 9
Episode 19
Douglas Brinkley is a highly regarded and best-selling author, CNN Presidential Historian, the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. His most recent book, “American Moonshot,” is a chronicle of the turbulent 1960s and JFK’s audacious plan to put a man on the moon.
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