John Hendricks was a university fundraiser when he first conceived the idea for a cable television channel devoted to documentaries and educational programming. Borrowing against his home, he gathered $25 million from 30 individual investors and unveiled the Discovery Channel in 1985. Today, Hendricks is the Chairman of Discovery Communications, the world's number one nonfiction media company. Hendricks has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award and with the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences highest honor, the Governors Award, for conceiving the TLC series, Great Books. The...