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The Leonard Lopate Show

Monday, June 25, 2007
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  • European Sculpture Gallery at the Met (john w/flickr)
    European Sculpture Gallery at the Met (john w/flickr)

    Great Art

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art attracts 4 million visitors each year. On today's show, meet some of the people who make the Met one of the world's greatest museums. Also: why Abraham Lincoln is still controversial in America more than 140 years after his death. We'll also hear some interviews with Palestinian inmates in Israeli prisons. Plus, Simon Schama explains why he says that "great art has dreadful manners."

Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art attracts four million visitors each year. We'll hear about the people who work behind the scenes at the Met to make it one of the world's greatest museums. Danny Danziger is the author of Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. J. Kenneth Moore is curator in charge of musical instruments, and Donna Williams Sutton is with the Met's Office of External Affairs.

Museum is available for purchase at amazon.com

Event: Danny Danziger will be speaking and signing books
Monday, June 25 at 7 pm
Upper West Side Barnes & Noble
2289 Broadway, at 82nd Street

Land of Lincoln

More than 140 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln in still a controversial figure in the U.S. Andrew Ferguson looks into how Americans remember (or don't remember) Honest Abe. Ferguson's new book is Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America.

Land of Lincolna is available for purchase at amazon.com

Event: Andrew Ferguson will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, June 26 at 8pm
The Book Revue
313 New York Avenue
Huntington, New York

Hot House: Interviews With Palestinian Inmates

Shimon Dotan's film Hot House features intense interviews with Palestinian men and women inmates from Fatah and Hamas in prisons in Israel. It airs as part the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival on Mon. June 25 at 6:30, and Tues. June 26 at 1:30 and 9:00 at the Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center.

Power of Art

"Great art has dreadful manners," according to Simon Schama. He says that his PBS Series, Power of Art, "is not a series about...decor or prettiness. It is a series about the force, the need, the passion of art...the power of art."

Sarah Palin

Gov. Sarah Palin and Alaska Politics

The Leonard Lopate Show

August 08, 2008
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is Sen. John McCain’s VP running mate. To find out more about Gov. Palin and Alaska politics, check out our States of the Union: Alaska segment from Aug. 8, 2008.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to 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.

John McCain

John McCain in 2000

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Sen. John McCain spoke with Leonard in September 2000 about his memoir, Faith of My Fathers. He discussed his family's naval background, his time in POW camps, as well as his own presidential ambitions for the 2000 election.

States of the Union

States of the Union

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Why is New York a blue state, Wyoming a red, and Ohio a shade of purple? Looking ahead to Election Day 2008, Leonard talks to journalists, scholars, and activists from each of the 50 states to find out what motivates voters from Maine to California.

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?

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