BIBFRAME Work

Title

Holding on

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Dreamers, visionaries, eccentrics and other American heroes

Type

• Monograph
• Non Music Audio

Contribution

• Stamberg, Susan, 1938-2025 (contributor)
• National Public Radio (U.S.) (contributor)
• Isay, David (contributor)

Subject

• United States (FAST)
• Manners and customs (FAST)
• United States (LCNAF)
• United States--Social life and customs (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Biographies (LCGFT)
• Biography (FAST)
• Interviews (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

• LCC: SDC 88940 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 791.447

Content

• spoken word

Summary

This disc contains 73 minutes of David Isay's NPR series profiling dreamers, eccentrics, and visionaries from across America.

Table of Contents

Introduction (2:02) -- World's longest diary (6:51) -- Pullman porter (5:26) -- Tossing away the keys (13:14) -- Brewer's bell museum (5:02) -- Castle builder (4:09) -- Mississippi Jews (13:19) -- Marriage broker (4:08) -- Dr. Hepcat (4:48) -- Joe Franklin (6:37) -- Fox hunters (7:43).

Authorized Access Point

Isay, David. Holding on

Capture

• capture
• Recorded between Feb. 1990 and Nov. 1993.

Geographic Coverage

• United States

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:15:34.455923+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 20040720

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc