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Summary:

A series of lectures and cultural showcases presented by the White House in 1998 and 1999 to highlight American creativity and inventiveness through ideas, art, and scientific discoveries.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The living past: commitments for the future (64 min.) / Bernard Bailyn
• 2. Imagination and change: science in the next millennium (71 min.) / Stephen Hawking
• 3. A celebration of poetry in American life (87 min.)
• 4. Jazz, an expression of democracy (88 min.)
• 5. The meaning of the millennium (102 min.) / Natalie Zemon Davis and Martin E. Marty
• 6. Women as citizens: vital voices through the century (118 min.)
• 7. The perils of indifference: lessons from a violent century (113 min.) / Elie Wiesel.

Contributors:

White House Millennium Council (U.S.)

National Endowment for the Humanities

Sun Microsystems

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Civilization

United States — Civilization

United States — Intellectual life

Millennium celebrations (Year 2000) — United States

Millennium celebrations (2000)

2000

Intellectual life

United States

System Details:

VHS format.

General Notes:

"Poets laureate: the American voice in poetry"--Cassette label, tape 3.
Shipping list no.: 2000-0004-E.

Physical Description:

7 videocassettes : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

Physical Characteristics:

polyester; 1/2 in.; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

analog; magnetic

Video Characteristics:

VHS

Call Numbers:

PREX 1.21:M 61/PKG./

SuDocs Numbers:

PREX 1.21:M 61/PKG.

Other Standard Numbers:

Government Printing Office Item Number: 0851-J-10

OCLC Numbers:

42904841