In 1984, Garry Kasparov became the talk of serious chess aficionados around the world when he unexpectedly defeated grand master Anatoly Karpov to win the game's world championship, and he was still the leading player in chess when, in 1996, he was invited to participate in a series of matches with Deep Blue, a supercomputer developed by IBM and ...
Chip away at the myth to reveal a man whose personal tragedies drove him to achieve feats many only dream about as Academy-Award-winning producer Vikram Jayanti explores the life of American President Abraham Lincoln - the self-proclaimed "loneliest man in the world." By utilizing detailed interviews with such widely-acclaimed Lincoln biographers ...
A crime writer best-known for his novel L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy is one of the more eccentric and intense figures on the American literary scene. After numerous articles and E! documentaries, his personal story is well-known. When he was ten years old, his mother was murdered by an unknown assailant. This event became an obsession for him, ...
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