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  • The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    What made Texas the national leader and template for criminal incarceration? We’ll talk this hour with Robert Perkinson, professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire” (Picador, 2010).

  • Why Some People Excel Under Pressure & Others Don't

    How do top performers train themselves to succeed under extreme pressure and what can the rest of us learn from them? We’ll talk this hour with Paul Sullivan, “Wealth Matters” columnist for The New York Times and author of the new book “Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don’t” (Portfolio Penguin, 2010).