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Sketch from Woody Guthrie Artworks (Knopf)
Guest host Philip Gourevitch talks to Ambassador Paul Bremer about his 14 months in charge of Iraq. Then, Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora will be here with a look at the first-ever collection of her father’s artwork. And Andrew Delbanco shares his new biography of Herman Melville.
My Year in Iraq
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III was put in charge of supervising Iraq’s transition to democracy. He’s here today to talk about the challenges he faced, and to respond to critics who blame him for much of what went wrong in Iraq…from the strengthening insurgency to the increase in casualties. His ...
Bound for Glory
Woody Guthrie was one of the best-known and most prolific American songwriters. And while nearly everyone has heard his songs (especially “This Land is Your Land”), not many people are familiar with his art. His daughter Nora Guthrie joins us today with a new collection of over 300 works by ...
Melville: His World and Work
Herman Melville wrote one of the most important American novels of all time: Moby-Dick. But he wasn't recognized as a towering literary figure until 40 years after his death. Andrew Delbanco, the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, studies Melville's life and works in a new ...
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