In this first episode, Sarah asks her father, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of 12 books, David Maraniss, about his motto: Go there, wherever there is.
In this first episode, Sarah asks her father, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author of 12 books, David Maraniss, about his motto: Go there, wherever there is. Searching for the truth as an author and The Washington Post journalist has taken David around the world, and what he finds in each place is as much about the people and sense of those locations as it is about the geography. David tells Sarah about moving to Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the winter to research his biography of Vince Lombardi. Finding “Billy” Clinton’s Great Aunt working at a Motel 6 near Hot Springs. Walking a battlefield in Vietnam with the American and Viet Cong commanders, four decades after their battle. And standing in a narrow street outside Jakarta, where the exotic sounds and smells once surrounded a young Barack Obama’s before his remarkable journey to the white house.
Go there is one of four legs David says make up his approach. The others are: get all the archival documents, interview as many people as you can find, and break through the mythology in the search of truth.