Frustrated at the lack of stimulating and accurate American history textbooks for grade school students, grandmother Joy Hakim set out in to compile a comprehensive guide. In 1993 it was published by Oxford University Press. Now that 10 volume work has now been turned into a 16-episode PBS series, hosted by Katie Couric. The companion book is called Freedom
A Rather Good Get
Kelly McBride, a member of ethics faculty at the Poynter Institute, on whether journalists who've got the goods should pass it to the feds
Mark My Words
Mark Bowden, writer for the Atlantic Monthly and author of Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw (Penguin USA, 2002), says we should invade Iraq
Jumping For Joy
Joy Hakim, a former elementary school teacher and author of Freedom: A History of Us (Oxford, 2002) and Philip B. Kunhardt III, an Episcopal minister, writer, and producer of a PBS series based on Hakim's books
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