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Life with the Shah
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.
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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.
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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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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.
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