In this interview by Gerald Howard for CUNY's Leon Levy Center for Biography, biographer Debby Applegate discusses her just-released boo...

Update: Release postponed again Oct. 22, 2021: U.S. President Joe Biden has postponed until at least December of 2022 the legally required ...

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