The Leonard Lopate Show
Life with the Shah
Friday, August 27, 2004
Farah Pahlavi is the widow of the Shah of Iran, whose campaign to modernize his country ended when he was overthrown in 1979 by Khomeini’s opposition. The Pahlavis have been in exile ever since. She’s here to look back on her eventful life and her memoir, An Enduring Love: My Life with the Shah. According to Laura Shapiro, the 1950s eating revolution in the United States was the result of a war-induced overcapacity for food production and preservation. The food industry had to figure out how to get American housewives to use more canned and frozen food. Shapiro is the author of Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America. And Nicholson Baker discusses his controversial new novella, Checkpoint, in which one main character is fixated on assassinating President Bush.
Farah Pahlavi
Farah Pahlavi gives a personal account of the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran in her new memoir: An Enduring Love: My Life With the Shah: A Memoir.
»Visit Farah Pahlavi’s website
Music: Marzieh "Tchar-Mezrab Dachti" "Overture"
Laura Shapiro
Laura Shapiro looks at food across the Atlantic and the reinvention of American eating habits after World War II in Something from the Oven.
» More on the book
Music: The Ice Storm Soundtrack (Velvel records)—track 1
Nicholson Baker
Nicholson Baker discuses the literary and political implications of writing about the assassination of a sitting president. His new book is titled Checkpoint.
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Music:Soundtrack to Primal Fear, music by James Newton Howard: “Courtroom Montage” / “Got an Aspirin?”
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