American Dreams

The Reith Lectures: Archive 1976-2012 by BBC

Jun 17, 200843:05Society & Culture

Chinese Vistas: Jonathan Spence lectures about China. Recorded at The Asia Society in New York. Spence explores the two centuries in which the United States gradually moved from its position as a dominant beacon of freed...

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