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The Leonard Lopate Show / September 09, 2004

The Leonard Lopate Show

Thursday, September 09, 2004
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    Guest host Chris Bannon fills in today for Leonard. This week our “Underreported” segment focuses on Georgia’s internal struggles, and its efforts to regain some of its lost territories. We’ll hear from Andrew Meier, author of Black Earth: A Journey through Russia after the Fall, and Sebastian Smith, journalist and author of Allah's Mountains: Politics and War in the Russian Caucasus. Then Joshua Goldstein argues that war is (and should be) expensive—he estimates that the average American household currently pays $500 each month in taxes to finance war. And these costs only increase the longer war lasts. In The Real Price of War, he argues that increasing war spending now will actually save money later. Bruce Schoenfeld has won two Emmy Awards for his coverage of the Olympics. In his latest book, The Match, he uncovers the historic significance of the friendship between tennis doubles partners Althea Gibson (the first black person to compete in the US Championships) and Angela Buxton (who, as the granddaughter of Russian Jews growing up in England, felt like an outsider herself) in the 1950s. We’ll talk with both Bruce Schoenfeld and Angela Buxton about this important partnership. Finally, director Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon discuss their current work, Decasia. The project—currently showing at St. Ann’s Warehouse—combines Morrison’s assemblage of deteriorated, damaged film clips with Gordon’s original score in order to examine the nature of decay.

Andrew Meier and Sebastian Smith

Andrew Meier and Sebastian Smith on the current challenges—from territorial disputes to economic struggles—faced by Georgia.

» More on our Underreported series

Music: Alilo: Ancient Georgian Chorales, Rustavi Choir: "Shen khar venakhi" / "Alilo" / "Da vitarza meupisa"

Joshua Goldstein

Joshua Goldstein explains how much war actually costs average Americans in The Real Price of War.

» Read an excerpt of The Real Price of War in the Reading Room
» More on the book
» Go to the book's website

Music: "Escalator," Bang on a Can All-Stars
"Betty’s Lament," Isan

Angela Buxton and Bruce Schoenfeld

Tennis player Angela Buxton and author Bruce Schoenfeld on The Match--the story of Buxton’s historic friendship with her doubles partner, Althea Gibson, in the 1950s.

» Read an excerpt of The Match in the Reading Room
» More on the book
» More on Bruce Schoenfeld

Music: Soundtrack for Talk Radio, music by Stewart Copeland: “Kent: Unpredictable” / “Trend: he Has Heart”

Bill Morrison and Michael Gordon

Bill Morrison and Michael Gordon explore the art of decay with their current project, Decasia, at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

» More on the show

Music: Decasia, Michael Gordon

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.

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedkerwin/">tedkerwin</a>/flickr)

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?