The Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series will celebrate its 10th season in 2013 with what promises to be its most interesting lineup ever. Experts will speak on historical and cultural icons from Cleopatra to Marilyn Monroe and Julius Caesar to Winston Churchill. Great Lives will again feature lectures by authors on biographies they have recently published. Among them are: • Cronkite by Douglas Brinkley, who accessed diaries and letters and interviewed hundreds of Walter Cronkite’s friends and colleagues to craft a personal portrait of the newsman. • Rasputin: The Untold Story by Joseph Fuhrmann, whose fluent Russian allowed him to interpret previously sealed documents in Moscow and Siberia. • Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson, who drew on primary resources and family interviews to explore the last decades of the life of Ernest Hemingway. The final 2013 lecture will explore the link between great achievement and mental aberration through the lives of a … [Read more...]