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(mtlp/flickr)The China Price
Find out how many Chinese workers are paying a high price for China's mass industrialization, from long hours and low pay to health problems. Also: hear about the anti-comic book crusade of the 1950s. A look at how the hamburger became an American icon. Plus, the influence of presidential speechwriters! Guest host Jonathan Capehart sits in for Leonard today.
The High Price of Chinese Industrialization
China’s mass industrialization is coming at a high cost for many Chinese workers, from long hours and low wages to nearly unbreathable air. Financial Times editor Alexandra Harney’s new book is The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage.
Events: Alexandra Harney will be speaking and signing books
Tuesday, April 22 at 6:30 pm
China Institute
125 East 65th Street (between Park and Lexington Avenues)
Alexandra Harney will be speaking and signing books
Monday, April 28 at 6:30 pm
Asia Society
725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)
The Comic Book Plague
In the 1950s, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham concluded that almost all comic books would cause antisocial behavior in their young readers. David Hajdu’s new book about the crusade against comic books is The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America.
Weigh in: How did reading comic books when you were a kid affect your learning and development?
American Hamburger
From German “hamburg steak,” to McDonalds and White Castle, to grass-fed patties on brioche buns – the history of the hamburger has been intertwined with the history of the U.S. Josh Ozersky explains how the hamburger became an American icon. His new book is The Hamburger.
Weigh in: Tell us about your personal history with hamburgers. Do you like them? What's the best hamburger you've ever eaten?
Speechwriters: White House Ghosts
Presidential speechwriters can frame an era, define a presidency, and even shape world history. Robert Schlesinger is author of the new book White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.
Weigh in: Do you have a favorite presidential speech of all time? If so, why? And do you know anything about the people who helped write it?
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Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Frank McCourt
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Science and Faith
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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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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.
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