William Shakespeare

• How Romeo and Juliet could have escaped their deaths
• Why the misconception about Shylock
• The advantage of reading Sonnets 1-126 in backward order
• How Shakespeare revised and improved his Tragedy of Hamlet
• The explosion at the start of King Lear
• Learning to think well of Lady Macbeth

Henry Adams

• Why every intelligent person should read Adams's writings
• What he accomplished as an anonymous young newspaper correspondent
• His learning the inside story of the New York Gold Conspiracy
• The things that make his novel Democracy so interesting
• Why is his History of the United States America's epic?
• How he became the historian of Tahiti
• His seven years of secret work as unofficial Co-Secretary of State
• The tragic history of his greatest book, The Education of Henry Adams