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Conversations with History: Michael B. Oren




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Host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian and novelist Michael Oren for a discussion of the search for truth in his historical studies and in his novels. He reflects on the skills and temperament required to do history and fiction focusing on his study of the six day war in the Middle East and his novel Reunion. Series: Conversations with History [3/2006] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 11353]

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