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The Leonard Lopate Show

Tuesday, September 19, 2006
  • Helene Grimaud (Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves)
    Helene Grimaud (Wild Harmonies: A Life of Music and Wolves)

    Learning from the Past

    We begin today with a look at our public health infrastructure, and whether it’s prepared to handle a terrorist attack. Then, the celebrated pianist Helene Grimaud talks about her other life as an activist for wolves. And we hear about one man’s search to find his troubled twin brother--who disappeared when they were 28 years old. Plus, Nicholas Lemann exposes the campaign of political terrorism he says white Southerners waged to keep blacks from voting after the Civil War.

Public Health Since 9/11

In Are We Ready?, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz examine the state of our public health infrastructure, and ask whether--five years after 9/11--we’re prepared to handle biological, chemical, or radiological terrorist attacks.

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Wild Harmonies

Helene Grimaud is a celebrated pianist and the founder of a wolf conservation center in upstate New York. She tells us about balancing these two passions in Wild Harmonies.

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Events: Hélène Grimaud will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, September 20 at 7 pm
Borders Books and Music
10 Columbus Circle

Hélène Grimaud will be performing
Monday, October 23
Carnegie Hall
For more information, visit the Carnegie Hall website

Hélène Grimaud will be performing
Wednesday, November 8
Carnegie Hall
For more information, visit the Carnegie Hall website

A Brother's Search

When Kim Powers was 28, his troubled twin brother disappeared. In The History of Swimming, he talks about his search for his brother, and his attempts to make peace with childhood traumas.

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Events: Kim Powers will be reading and signing books
Wednesday, September 20 at 7 pm
Chelsea Barnes & Noble
675 6th Avenue, between 21st and 22nd Streets

The Last Battle of the Civil War?

Nicholas Lemann, Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism and a New Yorker staff writer, exposes a campaign of political terrorism that took place on American soil nearly 150 years ago. In Redemption, he brings to life the battle white Southerners waged after the Civil War to keep blacks from voting.

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Events: Nicholas Lemann will be speaking to Eric Foner about his book
Tuesday, September 19 at 7:30 pm
The Altschul Auditorium
The School of Internatonal and Public Affairs, Columbia University
420 West 128th Street

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