George Crile tells Jim Fleming how Charlie Wilson almost singlehandedly persuaded the U.S. government to fund the Afghan Mujahadeen in their war against the invading Soviets.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Gordon Grice talks with Anne Strainchamps about the wilder side of nature and why we overlook the ferocity of wild animals at our peril.
Garret Keizer talks about his book, "The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise."
Greil Marcus tells Steve Paulson that self-invention has been a part of American nationhood since Puritan times.
Brian Turner was an average young American who volunteered for military service in Iraq. At night he wrote poetry by flashlight. When his tour ended, he collected his poems into a book called "Here, Bullet." This one is called "A Night in Blue."
Medievalist Bruce Holsinger writes historical fiction starring some names familiar to English majors -- Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. They were poets but in Holsinger's novels they also deal in secrets.
Glenn Kay talks to Jim Fleming about some of the 300 zombie films he has seen, rated, and reviewed.
Historian Harold Schechter tells Anne Strainchamps that violence has always been an important part of popular entertainment and our ancestors enjoyed truly grisly spectacles.
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