Glens Falls (NY) Online Book Discussion Group discussion

Tom Lewis is professor of English at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.
He is the author of award-winning documentaries. Among his books are:

The Hudson: A History (2005)

Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (1997)

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)

The following material is from online:
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"Thomas S. W. Lewis -- Tom Lewis is Quadracci Professor of Social Responsibility and a professor of English at Skidmore College. He has edited The Letters of Hart Crane and his Family and a collection of essays on Virginia Woolf, and has written a number of essays on modern writers and culture. His books on modern culture include Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio; and Divided Highways: The Interstates and the Transformation of American Life. He earned his BA from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and his MA and Ph.D. from Columbia where he was both a Faculty and Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Lewis has also written and co-produced documentary films with Ken Burns and Lawrence Hott. His documentary work has won an Emmy and a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting."
FROM: http://www.themodernword.com/literary...
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[Two of Lewis':] "books were made into acclaimed PBS documentaries. Lewis codirected the film version of "Divided Highways," which received a 1997 Peabody Award. Ken Burns directed "Empire of the Air" (1991)*, which earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Special."
FROM: http://readme.readmedia.com/Novelist-...
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See photo and profile at:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/we...

See the YouTube video: "Tom Lewis at the NYS Writers Institute in 2009":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ2d-r...

*NOTE: Netflix offers the following as both DVD and streaming:
"Ken Burns' America: Empire of the Air" (1991):
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Ken_Burn...
Also see the IMDb page at:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0238199/