Retraces the story of when Poggio Bracciolini found Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things," during the Renaissance and how the recirculation of this poem changed history.
Thirty-something New Yorker, Jane Hayes, who is obsessed with Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," is gifted a vacation to an estate where fans are transported back in time and actors pretend to be characters from Austen novels; and things get confusing when she blurs the line between fiction and reality by becoming attracted to two of the actors.
Chronicles the 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, of Chicago teenager, Emmett Till, by local store owner Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, the trial and acquittal that followed, and how the incident impacted the civil rights movement.
Columbia University professor David Swift, having been called to his mentor's deathbed and given a string of numbers which he believes may hold the key to Albert Einstein's unified field theory, finds his life is at risk as he and his former girlfriend, physicist Monique Reynolds, try to outrun the FBI and a Russian mercenary and understand the consequences of solving the equation.
Chronicles Ronald Reagan's history of opposition to and activism against communism, arguing that his motivation for becoming involved in politics was to bring about an end to communist regimes, and looks at what Reagan did as president of the United States to bring down the Soviet Union.
Examines the American response to French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist thought, exploring the reasons why many American philosophers initially rejected Sartre's ideas, and discussing how they eventually began to attract positive attention.
