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You have so many books. A lot of people think of you mostly as a political conservative but in your book, radical son where you talk but your life story, you reveal the side of yourself i as a writer would say i would call a good writer. Youre not just somebody with great ideas but you write well, and in this book, im probably not the first one to call it it has beautiful tone to it, resume nations, obviously on mortality and faith. Thats the title. When you decided to write this book well, let ...

The tenth time in the last 11 seasons. University of iowa beat the pants off of western michigan. And the pants were off of one of the cheerleaders. His drawers dropping down while doing flips. But he still sticks the landing. Pulling his pants up as quickly as they fell down. His teammates absolutely loving it. That was the favorite of the day, pants down. Thats my favorite. Kour, thacoy, thank you so m. Hello everyone, given, thank you for joining me, im fredricka whitfield. Theres a new round...

Women, like the yellow wallpaper and it went on to create some of the first texts of women and gender studies movement in universities and now that every publisher publishs some feminist books at least we publish the most cutting edge, issues other publishers are not touching because they dont know to or too controversial so all our books have an urgency to them but also might have kind of new and cutting edge. Host what is your background . How did you get into this . Guest i am a journalist. I...

Guest a ghost writer is an author who writes in the first person of another person. Host howd you get into that business . Guest its a long story. The short end of the story is i was an advertising guy after college and after graduate school, and i made up my mind i was going to go meet ray charles and talk him into letting me do an authorized biography of him, because i wanted to win the Pulitzer Prize and the nobel prize, and i didnt know anything about ghost writing. So i had a hard time intr...

Attacked you. So there is that aspect of it. There is concern about catalytic for silly of a crisis between two countries and also all of a sudden one is being hit hard by cyber attack and this assumes is the other country, its rival it could be a third party. You have that kind of issue, another issue of the ability to get Nuclear Weapons and overtime they build up an arsenal at the North Koreans are doing missile flight times between israel and iran are five or six minutes. Early warning is th...

Attacked you. So there is that aspect of it. There is concern about catalytic for silly of a crisis between two countries and also all of a sudden one is being hit hard by cyber attack and this assumes is the other country, its rival it could be a third party. You have that kind of issue, another issue of the ability to get Nuclear Weapons and overtime they build up an arsenal at the North Koreans are doing missile flight times between israel and iran are five or six minutes. Early warning is th...

What is the proudest moment of your career so far . Guest wow. I dont mean to sound snarky or snippy here, but i hope it is yet to come. I feel very fortunate in just a few days well start our 12th season on pbs. Im now on 15 years in public radio. I feel very blessed at start of this year to do all weve done so far. I hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to i hope the proudest moment is yet to come. If i had to pick something it would be that i am still in here and so many people t...

Peter, tomplaint came pouring into npr wn i first started i talked too loud. My favorite one was my laugh was too boisterous. He laughs too bows tmendously. Laugh was too much. My cence was wrong. I spo too fast. Everything about me isoo big for public radio. You know how npr is. This is National Public radio. My style is so different when i first started at npthe betting i wouldnt make it. Pb the betting wasnt as high. People didnt think it would rk on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years ...

Running away. The officer then handcuff scott as he was lessft face down, and the officer then shows the officer planting a taser. Then to ferguson missouri, which hold its first municipal election since the shooting of michael brown. For the first time in fergusons 20year history, the sixmember city council will have three africanamericans. And to chicago where mayor rahm emanuel has survived a runoff against progressive challenger chuy garcia. Mayor emanuel to all the people of chicago who hav...

People didnt think it would work on pbs. Charlie rose had done well for years and nobody expected for me to make it on pbs. Long story short it would be im still here. Host 25 years or so youve been doing this. 17 books or so you ever written and edited. Your different shows that youve done, what do you think youve accomplished . Guest i hope that what we do every day through our public radio and Public Television work is the same three things that say all the time. I hope, number one to challen...