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Like No Other Time
South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle recalls the eventful 107th U.S. Congress. A few of the things they had to deal with: September 11th, the anthrax attacks, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords's switch from Republican to independent, and passing the first resolution supporting the planned war in Iraq. Then Neal Bascomb talks about the making of the New York City skyline. And Chris Stokes on being on Olympian; he’s president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation. Plus, Donovan Webster explains the importance of the China-Burma-India theater in World War II.
Tom Daschle
Senator Tom
Daschle gives us an insider’s view into the political
establishment in his new book, Like No Other Time: The
107th Congress and the Two Years that Changed America
Forever.
Neal Bascomb
In Higher: A Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of
a City, Neal Bascomb talks about two architects,
William Van Alen and Craig Severance, and the 1920s race to
build the world's tallest building.
Chris Stokes
Chris Stokes talks about the Jamaican Bobsleigh
Team, crashing at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, and
finding subsequent worldwide success. His new book is
Cool Runnings and Beyond.
Donovan Webster
Donovan Webster goes beyond the oft-discussed European and
Pacific theaters of World War II in his recent book. It’s
called The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II.
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