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David Walker - Comeback America

Guest: David Walker,former Comptroller General of the United States
Title:Comeback America

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Joan Waugh - U. S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (Civil War America)

From Publishers Weekly
How does national memory determine national heroes? Waugh, a UCLA
history professor, probes the subject in an engaging study of the
making of Ulysses S. Grant's reputation. At the time of his death in
1885, he was perceived as on a level with George Washington by former
Unionists and Confederates alike. His memoirs were a bestseller. His
image combined the honorable soldier and the generous victor: a heroic
war leader who believed in the ideal of national reconciliation in both

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Phil Pomper - "Lenins Brother"

Guest:Philip Pomper, Wesleyan University History Professor and Author.
Date; Sunday February 28

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Randy Lynch - Bennett Lane Winery

Randy and Lisa Lynch came to wine through their travels in Italy, where the fruit of the vine is typically a complement to a meal-not the centerpiece. When their growing passion for fine food and wine led them to plant acreage in Napa Valley, Randy and Lisa decided to create a red wine that would easily find a place at the dinner table. Maximus, named after the wine-loving, 2nd century Roman Emperor Magnus Maximus, became their initial bottling. That was the beginning of Bennett Lane Winery. Randy is also a huge jazz fan. 

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Gordon Wood - Historian Empire of Liberty

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University. His latest book "Empire Of Liberty" a volume in the Oxford History of the United States deals with the period of the early Republic, 1789-1815. My conversation with professor Wood centers on how the political structure of the early republic was the building block for our current form of government. Certainly there were many flaws as there is today. However, one thing is for sure.