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Monday, 11/09
Noon: How did a grassroots political movement forever change the way that presidential campaigns are run? We'll talk with David Plouffe, political strategist and author of the new book, "The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic Victory" (Viking, 2009).
1pm: What can we learn from children not yet old enough to graduate elementary school? We'll talk this hour with award-winning teacher Phillip Done, whose new book is "Close Encounters of the Third-Grade Kind" (Center Street, 2009).
Tuesday, 11/10
Noon: How does the Holocaust continue to affect us today? We'll spend this hour with Elliott Dlin, executive director of the Dallas Holocaust Museum, and Rick Halperin, director of SMU's Human Rights Education Program. They are part of a series of events on "Holocaust Legacies: Shoah as Turning Point" this fall at SMU.
1pm: When middle school students are taught only how to pass any given test, how will they develop critical and curious minds? We'll discuss the teenage brain with Dr. Sandra Chapman and Dr. Jacquelyn Gamino from UTD's Center for BrainHealth, and Jennifer Tecklenberg, a teacher in the Dallas Independent School District.
Wednesday, 11/11
Noon: Why is the Korean War often overlooked in the canon of American military history? We'll spend this hour with Bill Sloan, author of the new book "The Darkest Summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea – and the Marines – From Extinction" (Simon & Schuster, 2009).
1pm: As wife of the nation's second president and mother of the sixth, Abigail Adams influenced the founding days of the United States, but who was she really? We'll talk this hour with Woody Holton, author of "Abigail Adams" (Free Press, 2009), a new biography on America's second First Lady.
Thursday, 11/12
Noon: How did the collapse of the USSR's European empire happen so quickly and peacefully in the waning months of the 80s? We'll talk to Victor Sebestyen, author of "Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire" (Pantheon, 2009).
1pm: What challenges do security experts face when an individual terrorist can pose as much threat as a powerful rogue nation? This hour we'll discuss the law enforcement view of terrorism with Oliver "Buck" Revell, President of Revell Group International and former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI. He's in town to speak at the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth.
Friday, 11/13
Television
7:30pm: Episode 330
Developing.
In the Art&Seek segment, we'll talk with Miguel Harth Bedoya, Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
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