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WAMC’s Alan Charotock In Conversation with Jon Alter, an award-winning author, reporter, columnist, television producer and analyst, about the speech and its implications. is the author of three New York Times bestsellers: The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies (2013), The Promise: President Obama, Year One (2010) and The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (2006).

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In honor of The Martin Luther King holiday Monday, WAMC presents A Special Encore Power of Words: Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream Speech. Former State Comptroller H. Carl McCall will deliver the speech to an audience at WAMC’s Linda Norris Auditorium.

WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Elizabeth Sobol the new President and CEO of Saratoga Performing Arts Center or SPAC.

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An encore 2011 Power of Words. On this program, WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Christopher Breiseth discuss FDR’s Four Freedoms Speech. In addition, listeners will have an opportunity to  hear the speech as it was delivered on January 6th, 1941.

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On this program, WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Historian Harold Holzer discuss President Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural – delivered by Academy Award Winning Actor F. Murray Abraham.

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WAMC and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust New York Archives Partnership Trust present The Power of Words — a year-long series of programs that follows American History through some of the most memorable political speeches of our time. On this program, WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Professor and Historian Dr. Allida Black discuss First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Women’s Rights are Human Rights speech in Beijing, China on September 5th 1995.

WAMC and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust present an encore of The Power of Words. On this program, WAMC’s Alan Chartock and Best Selling Author and Biographer Joseph Persico set the scene and provide context and analysis of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Day of Infamy Speech. In addition, listeners will have an opportunity to actually hear the speech as it was delivered on December 8th, 1941.

WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation With Jonathan Gradess, Executive Director of the New York State Defenders Association (NYSDA).

A special encore airing of Alan Chartock’s 2004 interview with Loet Velmans — a Sheffield, Massachusetts resident who did hard time in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Loet went on to become Chief Executive Officer of the Hill & Knowlton public relations firm. Alan speaks with Loet about his book Long Way Back To The River Kwai: A Harrowing True Story Of Survival In World War II.

This week, Dr. Alan Chartock talks to Dr. Ivan Steen about the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor.