CHARLIE ROSE: President Obama will face increasing pressure from the left on a range
of issues, including immigration, healthcare reform, and nominating a
Supreme Court justice. The president’s centrist course on reviving the
U.S. economy has already frustrated many progressives.
Joining me now, two journalists who have written critically and
eloquently about the need for a more activist left. Naomi Klein is a
columnist for “The Nation” magazine and a British paper, the “Guardian.”
She’s also the author of the best-selling book, “The Shock Doctrine: The
Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” And William Greider is the national affairs
correspondent for “The Nation.” His new book is called “Come Home America:
The Rise and Fall and Redeeming Promise of Our Country.”
I am pleased to have both of them back on this program. Welcome.
NAOMI KLEIN: Thank you.
WILLIAM GREIDER: Thank you. Thank you, Charlie.
CHARLIE ROSE: Nice to see you, my friend. Tell me first about
“Coming Home America: The Rise and Fall and Redeeming Promise of Our
Country.”
Read from the transcript in its entirety here, or you can view the interview from the CharlieRose.com website here. See also:
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country
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One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
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Who Will Tell The People
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Charlie Rose - Elizabeth Warren / Naomi Klein & William Greider(May 11, 2009)
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Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy
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No Logo: 10th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by the Author
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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
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People-First Economics: Making a Clean Start for Jobs, Justice and Climate
In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize.
Listen to the TED Conference talk here.
Jim Lehrer is here. As the executive editor and anchor of “The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, he’s been a keen observer of Washington
politics for more than 30 years. He’s also a seasoned author. He has
written two memoirs, three plays, and his latest book, “Oh, Johnny,” is his
19th novel. And he’s already -- get this -- written his 20th novel, and
that will be out sometime in the future.
I’m pleased to have Jim Lehrer back at this table. Welcome.
JIM LEHRER: Thank you, Charlie.
CHARLIE ROSE: All right, here’s the -- I want to talk briefly about
this book, and then we’re going to get on to other issues. Not more
important, just other.
JIM LEHRER: Oh, OK.
CHARLIE ROSE: All right. This is the story of a young man who’s
going to become a flame thrower in the Marines on Okinawa. Before he goes,
he’d wanted to be a baseball player. Stops in Wichita, meets a girl.
See the full interview here. See also:
Super: A Novel
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Flying Crows: A Novel
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Oh, Johnny: A Novel
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Eureka: A Novel
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Crown Oklahoma (One-eyed Mack Mystery)
In her memoir, My Life So Far (Random House, 2005), Jane Fonda reveals how it wasn't until age 60, after many life lessons in what she calls her "third act," that she felt she discovered her voice. Now that she has it, she is determined to find meaningful ways to use it, through the many channels that she finds opening up to her. Ironically, Fonda was in the process of writing her next book on aging for Random House, when playwright Moises Kaufman sent her the script for a play called 33 Variations. Fonda had just been writing about how many renowned artists like Matisse and Beethoven did some of their best work later in life, and the part Kaufman was offering to her was an American musicologist who becomes obsessed with why Beethoven, in his later years, was driven to write 33 variations on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. Fonda, who loved the script, took it as a sign, and returned to Broadway after 46 years to star in the play, currently performing to rave reviews and standing ovations.
Read the full HuffPo post here.
A conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund and author of "The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World"
Jacqueline Novogratz is here. “New York Times” columnist Nick Kristoff has
called her “one of the most interesting innovators in aid and development."
“Innovators” is the key word. She is in the Acumen Fund which invests
philanthropic money in enterprises that help the poor. The fund has helped
set up businesses in South Asia and Africa for everything from mosquito
nets to clean water. She writes about her experiences. It is in a book
called “The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor in an
Interconnected World.”
I am pleased to have her here at this table for the first time, welcome.
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ: Thank you.
CHARLIE ROSE: “The Blue Sweater.” Tell me the story because it’s a fun
story.
JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ: Thank you. I’m really glad to be here. I was given
a sweater by my Uncle Ed when I was 10 years old. It was blue and it had
zebras running around the front and mountains across the chest. Wore it
all of the time and wore it all the way through high school until my
adolescent curves were changing the contours of the sweater itself and I
think there is a humiliating moment in every adolescent girl’s life.
Mine was when my high school nemesis yelled across the hall that the boys
no longer had to go to the mound tons to ski, they could use my sweater.
And feeling completely mortified, I marched home
See the full interview here.
On the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Lewis Black exercises his quick wit and ability to highlight inconsistencies in politics and culture. In a new collection of essays, Me of Little Faith, Black has turned his critical eye towards religion. He talks in a way most of the rest of us can't -- about violence committed in the name of God and about his smart rants on Comedy Central. Bob talks to Keith Bellows, editor-in-chief of National Geographic Traveler magazine. Bellows and his fellow writers have traveled the globe to compile a list of the 500 greatest trips the world has to offer. The book is called âJourneys of a Lifetimeâ and encompasses every continent and every possible mode of transportation, including the world's top 10 elevator rides.
Download the podcast here. See also:
I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas
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Lewis Black: Stark Raving Black
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Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black
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