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(The Two Americas)
Pollster Stanley Greenberg breaks down the Democratic/Republican divide in the U.S. into identifiable factions - "F-You Boys," "Super-Educated Women," and "Privileged Men," to name a few – and shares his hopes for an end to the deadlock. Then, a look at how Funny Cide shocked the horseracing world by winning both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness in 2003. And linguistics professor Geoffrey Nunberg explains how words like "blog" and the mispronunciation "nucular" became common, and what they tell us about American culture.
Stanley Greenberg
Stanley Greenberg’s book is The Two Americas: Our Current Political Deadlock and How to Break It. Greenberg was part of Clinton’s 1992 re-election team.
Sally Jenkins, Dave Mahan and Eric Dattne
Sally Jenkins is the author of Funny Cide: How a Horse, a Trainer, a Jockey, and a Bunch of High School Buddies Took on the Sheiks and Blue Bloods...and Won. Dave Mahan and Eric Dattner are two of Funny Cide’s owners.
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Geoffrey Nunberg
Geoffrey Nunberg is a linguistics professor at Stanford and a regular language commentator on NPR. His recent book is Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times.
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» More about Geoffrey Nunberg
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