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Theodore Roosevelt, Post-Presidency
December 14, 2010

Why was Theodore Roosevelt so influential and famous overseas even after his presidency? We’ll discuss the last decade of his life this hour with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Edmund Morris, whose new book is “Colonel Roosevelt” (Random House, 2010).
English Until the Return of Babel
December 14, 2010

Is the English language losing ground globally? Our guest this hour thinks so. We’ll speak with Nicholas Ostler, chairman of the Foundation of Endangered Languages and author of the new book “The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel” (Walker & Company, 2010).