On Biography with Rachel Syme: Robert Dallek

Join former NPR books editor and contributing Time magazine culture critic Rachel Syme and prominent biographers to discuss the thrills and challenges of writing about a life.

Distinguished historian Robert Dallek has taught at Boston University, Columbia, UCLA, Oxford and Stanford. Specializing in American presidents, he has won the Bancroft Prize and numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching. He is the author of many books, including Nixon and Kissinger, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963; and Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd.

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