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The Leonard Lopate Show / August 27, 2004

The Leonard Lopate Show

Friday, August 27, 2004
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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.

»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.

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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?”

Bill Richardson on Diplomacy

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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson will be joining Obama’s cabinet as Commerce Secretary. You can hear him talk about his experience in foreign policy and diplomacy on the Lopate Show in April 2007.

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Plaxico Burress on the Lopate Show

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NY Giants star Plaxico Burress is in the headlines this week for his self-inflicted gunshot wound. You can hear him on the Leonard Lopate Show in July 2008 talk about his life on and off the football field, and what it was like to win the 2007 Super Bowl.

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?