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Friday, May 11, 2007

Email has grown so rapidly that no one has had time to set the rules. Determined to clear up this confusion, a New York Times editor and a book editor have come up with a guide for email etiquette and restraint: The dos and dont's in messages and when to write an email at all. Plus: presidential historian Michael Beschloss and the next installment of our transportation series, Anything But the Car: Biking.

Hail to the Chief

Michael Beschloss, presidential historian and author, 8Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 (Simon and Schuster) talks about what makes a president great.

Presidential Courage is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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You've Got Email Trouble!

David Shipley, deputy editorial page editor and Op-Ed page editor of the New York Times and Will Schwalbe, editor-in-chief of Hyperion Books, take your calls on embarrassing email disasters and talk about their new book, Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home .

Send: The ...

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Anything But The Car: Biking

Taliah Lempert, bike enthusiast and full-time bicycle artist, talks about her favorite mode of transportation as part of our series on alternatives to the car.

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David Shipley, Op-Ed page editor of the New York Times and co-author of the book SEND: in studio with Brian Lehrer.

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Will Schwalbe, editor in chief of Hyperion Books on the
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