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  • Arts & Culture
    Hal Holbrook Remembered
    February 2, 2021
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM

    Actor Hal Holbrook died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95.  Bill talked with Holbrook in 2004 on NOW with Bill Moyers. They spoke about Holbrook's famed stage performance as Mark Twain.

  • The August Day Mark Twain Met Donald Trump
    September 10, 2015
    | Michael Winship
    The celebrated American author knew a thing or two about politics -- and The Donald.
  • History
    Why Have Americans Stopped Resisting Economic Privilege?
    December 19, 2014
    | Steve Fraser
    In this excerpt from Steve Fraser's new book, The Age of Acquiescence, the historian wonders why people in the second Gilded Age aren't fighting back the way they did the first time.
  • Comparing Gatsbys, Then & Now
    October 19, 2012
    | Theresa Riley and John Light
    See a breakdown of how the bank accounts, toys and titans of our first Gilded Age compare to this one.
  • Society
    Mark Twain, Then and Now, and the Invention of 'Hispanic'
    March 19, 2004 | NOW
    What Mark Twain can teach us about the challenges facing America today, and the Latinization of American culture.


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