EP #62: The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream with NYT Best Selling Author David Rubenstein

Lisa is solo today.  She is joined by David Rubenstein the
New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American
Story. He is cofounder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle
Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private
equity firms. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the
Council on Foreign Relations. He is an original signer of The
Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of
Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award. The host of
The David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg TV and PBS, he lives in
the Washington, DC area.

Lisa asks about his interviews with Henry Louis Gated on
Reconstruction, David. W. Blight on Frederick Douglas, Jia Lynn
Yang - on the history of immigration, Billie Jean King on
activism, and more. 

Book description:  The American Experiment: Dialogues on a
Dream


The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times
bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host
of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show—American icons and
historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring
Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King,
Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more.



In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series
from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore
the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in
democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas.

-Jill Lepore on the promise of America
-Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant
-Ken Burns on war
-Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction
-Elaine Weiss on suffrage
-John Meacham on civil rights
-Walter Isaacson on innovation
-David McCullough on the Wright Brothers
-John Barry on pandemics and public health
-Wynton Marsalis on music
-Billie Jean King on sports
-Rita Moreno on film

Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through
interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, diplomats,
music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment
captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in
real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American
spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention,
ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision
of what America is—and what it can be.