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Lee Child’s 12th Jack Reacher Novel (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 July 2008)

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2 Jul 2008

Lee Child’s 12th Jack Reacher Novel (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 02 July 2008) 

Lee Child ’s Jack Reacher mystery books are enormously popular. The 12th novel in the series, Nothing to Lose , finds the ex-military policeman uncovering a plan that involves the war in Iraq and an apocalyptic sect bent on ushering in the end of the world. Event : Lee Child will be speaking and signing books Thursday, July 10 at 8 pm Borders Books 461 Park Avenue (at 57th Street)

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[16:12]..." of pitch some of the stories have been. Velocity DC involved FBI White House select kind of think some stories like this one are. Just dusting now account towns in the back of beyond and -- "...

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Open Phones: Obama on Guns and Death Penalty (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 30 June 2008)

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30 Jun 2008

Open Phones: Obama on Guns and Death Penalty (The Brian Lehrer Show: Monday, 30 June 2008) 

Listeners weigh in on presidential candidate Barack Obama's response to last week's Supreme Court decisions on gun control and the death penalty. Is he moving to the center?

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[16:35]..." now. It's more important that we get a democratic. Administration in the White House that we get democratic majority. In congress in both houses of congress that we can -- legitimate progressive agenda. And you know "...

[17:39]..." get in and and having the opportunity with the president in the White House to get a liberal agenda passed which Clinton. Largely failed on there's -- Paul Krugman column was at this morning or yesterday. "...

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WALL-E, Waterfalls, Batman (Studio 360: Friday, 27 June 2008)

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27 Jun 2008

WALL-E, Waterfalls, Batman (Studio 360: Friday, 27 June 2008) 

Studio 360 falls for summer blockbusters. Meet the genius behind sound effects in the new Pixar film "Wall-E." A victim of "viral marketing" explains how he got psyched for next month’s Batman movie. And we take a boat ride with an international art star, Olafur Eliasson, as he inspects his enormous art project in New York Harbor: four man-made waterfalls, ten stories high.

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[8:16]..." speaking part of it was actually the dumpster -- dumpster from the White House look on out of the subtraction one day and became a sort of sweet kneecap. It's no walkers before. "...

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Together At Last (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 27 June 2008)

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27 Jun 2008

Together At Last (The Brian Lehrer Show: Friday, 27 June 2008) 

After a long and sometimes bitter primary season, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are making their first joint campaign appearance in the general election today. Despite the symbolic choice of venue -- Unity, NH -- the party still has healing ahead. Joining us to review the campaign appearance are Josh Rogers , reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio, and Rebecca Traister , staff writer at Salon.

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[0:33]..." course you reckon we're battling the seven. Hopefully -- successful. In the White House she's going to be one of my key partners make sure we're moving forward on issues like health care that she cares "...

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WALL-E, Waterfalls, Batman (Studio 360)

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26 Jun 2008

WALL-E, Waterfalls, Batman (Studio 360) 

Studio 360 falls for summer blockbusters. Meet the genius behind sound effects in the new Pixar film "Wall-E." A victim of "viral marketing" explains how he got psyched for next month’s Batman movie. And take a boat ride with an international art star, Olafur Eliasson, as he inspects his enormous art project in New York Harbor: four man-made waterfalls, ten stories high.

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[8:16]..." speaking part of it was actually the dumpster -- dumpster from the White House look on out of the subtraction one day and became a sort of sweet kneecap. It's no walkers before. "...

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Jim's Word (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 26 June 2008)

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26 Jun 2008

Jim's Word (The Brian Lehrer Show: Thursday, 26 June 2008) 

Author, radio host and itinerant muckraker Jim Hightower shares his thoughts on the presidential campaign, the role of grassroots organizing, and all things politics.

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[17:28]..." of that legislation. And that he would push those through in the White House unwilling to giving the benefit of the product. "...

[23:03]..." of mead Washington but you know if you've put me in the White House I'll do. What's you know -- I'm promising. There's a lot of people believe that. "...

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A Nation Divided (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 25 June 2008)

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25 Jun 2008

A Nation Divided (The Leonard Lopate Show: Wednesday, 25 June 2008) 

Barbara Ehrenreich says that the U.S. is being scarred by a deepening divide between the rich and poor. When she traveled throughout the U.S. to get a feel for how Americans are doing, she found that the last few years have been the worst in recent memory, and the wealth gap is growing wide every day. Her new book is This Land is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation . Event : Barbara Ehrenreich will be speaking and signing books Wednesday, June 25 at 7 pm Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 East 17th Street

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[15:46]..." may have been may be was even during Truman's. Time in the White House there was talk about a single Payer system Alla. Great Britain Canada and most of the European countries. And it was called "...

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Grand New Party (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 25 June 2008)

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25 Jun 2008

Grand New Party (The Brian Lehrer Show: Wednesday, 25 June 2008) 

Ross Douthat , senior editor of The Atlantic and Reihan Salam , associate editor at The Atlantic and senior editor at New America , join us to talk about their new book Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream in which they argue that it's time for Republicans to finally get over Reagan.

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[23:19]..." way am going to vote to put the clintons back in the White House so when I said to them well what about Barack Obama. There was a sense of pause no I'm not ready to "...

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America in the Post-Cold War Era (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 24 June 2008)

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24 Jun 2008

America in the Post-Cold War Era (The Leonard Lopate Show: Tuesday, 24 June 2008) 

According to Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier , the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 fundamentally shaped the world we live in today. Their new book, America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11 , argues that the post-Cold War world we live in is chaotic and complex; filled with challenges posed by globalization, nonstate actors, weapons of mass destruction, and inefficient international institutions. Event : Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier will be speaking and signing books Tuesday, June 24 at 7 pm Barnes & Noble Upper West Side 2289 Broadway (at 82nd Street)

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[9:14]..." it was just a few years before Bill Clinton. Came into the White House. In terror actually how much after that did you want to serving in the State Department. I was in this -- towards "...

[15:09]..." again and again in the news -- in the end of the White House is consciousness -- that. "...

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Karl Rove: Man and Myth (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 23 June 2008)

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23 Jun 2008

Karl Rove: Man and Myth (The Leonard Lopate Show: Monday, 23 June 2008) 

Karl Rove has become a kind of mythic kingmaker in the public imagination. Paul Alexander ’s new book about the man behind the myth is The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove .

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[0:39]..." of George Bush's election campaigns resigned from his post as a senior White House adviser. During his time in Washington he was viewed as one of the most merciless scorch and burn political technicians in American "...

[2:28]..." of you know after the seven years that he's been in the White House what the public actually thinks about him and if you if you if he appears before an audience that's not that it. "...

[7:07]..." had tried to write this book while he was still in the White House nobody would have talked to have -- been much much harder in particular are afraid that would have been a friend but "...

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