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Congressman Barney Frank
On today’s show: guest host Julie Burstein talks to Congressman Barney Frank. Later on, we’ll ask how Wal-Mart is changing America’s economy. Plus, a new book that laments the destructive nature of progress. And we’ll find out why one man went on a quest to experience springtime in different parts of the country.
Chasing Spring
Bruce Stutz, former editor-in-chief of Natural History magazine, decided to travel all over America for three months chronicling spring. He found that climate change is making the season arrive early, and impacting ecosystems throughout the country. He shares his findings in Chasing Spring: An American Journey Through a Changing Season.
The Place You Love Is Gone
Melissa Holbrook Pierson criticizes the way big cities grow and develop at the cost of small towns. In The Place You Love Is Gone, she reveals how towns in the Catskills were flooded in order to provide water for New York City, and speaks out against the homogenization of American ...
The Wal-Mart Effect
70 percent of Americans live within a fifteen-minute drive of a Wal-Mart. Charles Fishman looks at how Wal-Mart got so big, and how it’s changing America’s economy, in The Wal-Mart Effect.
Events:
Charles Fishman talk and book signing
Monday, January 23 at 6:30PM
Coliseum Books
Events:
Charles Fishman talk and book signing
Monday, January 23 at 6:30PM
Coliseum Books
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