Robert Caro's been studying Lyndon Johnson for decades. The fourth volume of his "Years of Lyndon Johnson" is out, and when Caro stopped by the studio, Jim asked just what makes LBJ so interesting... Listen in on the UNCUT interview here!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Kim Isaac Eisler talks with Jim Fleming about Indian casinos, admitting to the same ambivalence society feels. Casinos are fun, but they’re making too much money off their patrons.
Historian Michael Kammen tells Anne Strainchamps that the social distinctions between high-brow and low-brow culture are not as important as they once were.
Lawrence Osborne tells Anne Strainchamps he set out to teach himself what a wine critic knows. He thinks he did, but isn’t sure we need critics at all.
The World Cup is on our minds this week so we revisit Steve Paulson's conversation with Franklin Foer re. his book, "How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization."
Henrietta Lacks was a poor, African American woman who died of cervical cancer at the age of 31...
Novelist John Colapinto reads from and tells Jim Fleming about his book “About the Author,” in which a writer steals a manuscript from his room-mate and claims it as his own.
Storyteller Lorraine Johnson Coleman tells Anne Strainchamps about the various cultural traditions behind the breads found in Southern kitchens, and in her book.
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