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Simon Winchester

January 18, 2023

In a wide-ranging conversation, bestselling author Simon Winchester examines how humanity’s conquest to acquire territory and wield its power—including European imperialism and the dispossession of Native American populations—has so definitively shaped history.

History with David Rubenstein

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