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  • Self-Control in an Age of Excess

    How are those New Years resolutions coming? We’ll discuss why it’s so hard for us to resist overeating, drinking, smoking and more this hour with journalist and author Daniel Akst, whose new book is “We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess” (The Penguin Press, 2011).

  • The Man Who Recorded the World

    Where would we be today without Alan Lomax? Well take a look back this hour at the life of one of America’s greatest champions of music and folk culture with Columbia University professor of music and jazz studies, John Szwed. His new biography is “Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World” (Viking, 2011).