Jean Edward Smith is the author of "FDR," and tells Jim Fleming about Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court-packing scandal of 1937.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nick Flynn is the author of a memoir of his complex relationship with his father, who showed up as a client at the homeless shelter where Nick was working.
In her latest book, "This Changes Everything," journalist Naomi Klein takes a critical view of our current approaches to climate change. She sees the solution resting in the hands of an emerging global movement.
Novelist Jane Hamilton reads her favorite novel endings.
Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez served as Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004. His new memoir, "Wiser in Battle," is a scathing critique of the Bush administration's planning and execution of the war in Iraq.
For several days, Robert Olen Butler had a video camera trained on his desk and invited people to watch him write on-line. Butler says the Internet will create new art forms.
Anne Carson doesn't call her work poetry. She says the best description is poesis, Greek for "making." A classics scholar, Carson is a translator, essayist and prolific forger of new literary forms.
Joe Keenan is a novelist. He reads from his latest - "My Lucky Star" - and talks about the story with Steve Paulson.
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