Name: Carl Sandburg - Edward Steichen - Meet The Press Interview - Soviet Union Trip
Uploaded: 2021-01-24T15:37:42+00:00
Duration: 28 min 30 s
Description: Unrehearsed interview with poet Carl Sandburg and photographer Edward Steichen by top reporters after their trip to the Soviet Union. Carl August Sandburg was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, jour

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Unrehearsed interview with poet Carl Sandburg and photographer Edward Steichen by top reporters after their trip to the Soviet Union.

Carl August Sandburg was a Swedish-American poet, biographer, journalist, and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as "a major figure in contemporary literature", especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920). He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day, perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him with so many strands of American life", and at his death in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson observed that "Carl Sandburg was more than the voice of America, more than the poet of its strength and genius. He was America."

Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, who is widely renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography.

Credited with transforming photography into an art form, Steichen's photographs were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917, with Stieglitz hailing him as "the greatest photographer that ever lived"

Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program in television history, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. Meet the Press specializes in interviews with leaders in Washington, D.C., across the country and even the world on issues of politics, economics, foreign policy and other public affairs, along with panel discussions that provide opinions and analysis. (Wikipedia)

Originally Broadcast 9/13/1959

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