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![Featured Podcast: Biographer Robert Caro on Lyndon B. Johnson](caro/images/title.gif)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Caro discusses the political acumen of Lyndon B. Johnson. His latest bestseller, "The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson," is the fourth volume of the critically praised series about the 36th president.
![2012 National Book Festival](bookfest12/images/nbf2012_cover.jpg)
![Featured Series: 2012 National Book Festival](bookfest10/images/title.gif)
Listen to interviews with some of the award-winning authors participating in the 2012 National Book Festival. The 2012 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, was held on Saturday, September 22 and Sunday, September 23, 2012, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
![The Exquisite Corpse Adventure](exquisitecorpse/images/feature_photo.jpg)
![Featured Series: The Exquisite Corpse Adventure](exquisitecorpse/images/featured.gif)
A Very Unusual and Completely Amazing Story Pieced Together Out of So Many Parts That It Is Not Possible To Describe Them All Here So Go Ahead and Just Start Listening. This serialized adventure story features contributions from Jon Scieszka, Katherine Patterson, Lemony Snicket and more.
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![Featured Podcast: Bonnie Raitt on the John Raitt Collection](raitt/images/title.gif)
Renowned singer/songwriter Bonnie Raitt remembers her father, a legend of the Broadway stage, whose papers have joined the collections at the Library of Congress.
![Featured Series: Conversations about Digital Preservation. Copyright 2008. The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.](digitalpreservation/images/feature_photo.jpg)
![Featured Series: Digital Preservation](digitalpreservation/images/featured.gif)
The mission of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program is to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available digital content for current and future generations. Collaboration and shared ideas are essential to the success of NDIIPP and all digital preservation institutions. These podcasts are conversations with digital preservation leaders with whom the Library is collaborating.
![Slave Narratives](slavenarratives/images/feature_photo.gif)
![Featured Series: Slave Narratives](slavenarratives/images/featured-series.gif)
Oral histories and interviews with African Americans who endured the hardships of slavery. These recordings document the first-person accounts of several individuals whose life experiences spanned the period during and after slavery. The podcasts are drawn from several collections in the American Folklife Center Archives, one of the preeminent audio-visual repositories of national and international folklife, history and cultural expressions.
![Music and the Brain](musicandthebrain/images/music-brain_feature.gif)
![Featured Series: Music and the Brain](images/featured_series.gif)
The Library's Music and the Brain events offer lectures, conversations and symposia about the explosion of new research at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and music. Project chair Kay Redfield Jamison convenes scientists and scholars, composers, performers, theorists, physicians, psychologists, and other experts at the Library for a compelling 2-year series, with generous support from the Dana Foundation.