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American Achievers

By: Keith Dunnavant
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  • Join us in July 2024 for Season 4! AMERICAN ACHIEVERS celebrates ambition, commitment to excellence, risk-taking and tenacity in pursuit of the American Dream. Hosted and produced by author, documentary filmmaker, and media trailblazer Keith Dunnavant, who has been interviewing newsmakers for more than four decades, including many years as an award-winning print journalist in New York and Atlanta. Widely acclaimed for his sports and general history books, including THE MISSING RING, THE FIFTY-YEAR SEDUCTION, SPY PILOT and MONTANA, and recognized as a leading college football historian, Dunnavant co-directed the ESPN Films documentary BART STARR. With each episode of AMERICAN ACHIEVERS, he explores the life of an accomplished individual who has relentlessly chased success and fulfillment, often battling through significant adversity and reflecting universal lessons that strike at the heart of the American experience. Featuring entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, astronauts, media figures and civic leaders. AmericanAchievers.us.
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Episodes
  • Season 3, Episode 14: Gabe Kallos

    Season 3, Episode 14: Gabe Kallos
    Oct 9 2023

    Gabe Kallos talks about the rise of antisemitism in his native Hungary and how it affected how he saw himself, somehow avoiding the gas chambers as a teenage slave laborer at the Auschwitz concentration camp, emigrating to the United States, and carving out a good life as a Southern California dentist.
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    50 mins
  • Season 3, Episode 13: Paul Coffman

    Season 3, Episode 13: Paul Coffman
    Oct 2 2023

    Paul Coffman talks about being shaped by the values of a small Kansas farming community, walking onto the football team at Kansas State, where he eventually earned a scholarship and a starting position, and negotiating the arduous road from undrafted free agent to Pro Bowl tight end for the Green Bay Packers.
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    56 mins
  • Season 3, Episode 12: Norman Gaddis

    Season 3, Episode 12: Norman Gaddis
    Sep 25 2023
    Part 2 of 2: Norman Gaddis talks about the day he was captured by the North Vietnamese, the torture he endured, how he survived 2,124 days at the infamous prison camp known as the Hanoi Hilton, and the joy he felt when he reunited with his family and resumed his Air Force career.
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    47 mins
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