Carl Sewell, Sewell Automotive Companies
Host Lee Cullum talks with Carl Sewell about the family’s 100-year-old Dallas dealership.
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The Attorney General, Embattled
February 25, 2010How does Attorney General Eric Holder’s legal philosophy differ from his predecessors in the office? We’ll talk this hour with Dayo Olopade, Washington correspondent for The Root and Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. Her article “Eric Holder’s War” appears in the March issue of The American Prospect.
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One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America
February 25, 2010What do you spend on your daily bread and what is reality like for the 35 million Americans with limited food options? We’ll spend the hour with Christopher Greenslate, co-author of the new book “On a Dollar a Day: One Couple’s Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America” (Hyperion, Paperback, 2010).
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An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine
February 24, 2010What does your choice of beverage say about you? We’ll explore the arcane world of personal distilling, legal and otherwise with journalist and Guggenheim recipient Max Watman. His new book is “Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine” (Simon & Schuster, 2010).
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Dealing with Child Maltreatment & Violence
February 24, 2010What can be done to end family violence and child maltreatment? We’ll spend this hour with SMU professors Dr. Renee McDonald, Dr. Ernie Jouriles and Dr. George Holden who will all participate in this week’s American Psychological Association National Summit on Interpersonal Violence and Abuse.
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Pluto's 80th Anniversary
February 23, 2010Which planet celebrates its 80th anniversary this month? We’ll talk about the February, 1930 discovery of Pluto and learn lots of Pluto facts this hour with one of our favorite astronomers Ken Croswell, author of “Ten Worlds: Everything that Orbits the Sun” (Boyds Mill Press, 2007)
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Children and Parents in the Age of Medication
February 23, 2010What’s the best strategy for parents facing a highly-advanced yet confusing and expensive landscape of adolescent medical care? We’ll talk this hour with bestselling author and journalist Judith Warner, whose new book is “We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication” (Riverhead Books, 2010).
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On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist
February 22, 2010What ethical, legal, moral and medical issues are faced by emergency psychiatric caregivers and how do they cope with the stress? We’ll talk with Dr. Paul R. Linde who reflects on his professional experiences in the new book “Danger to Self: On the Front Line with an ER Psychiatrist” (University of California Press, 2010).
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A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
February 22, 2010What can you learn from driving 7,436 miles across northern China? We’ll spend this hour with New Yorker staff writer Peter Hessler, whose new book is “Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory” (Harper, 2010).
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The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations
February 19, 2010How will the relationship between the United States and Japan evolve in the coming decade? We’ll talk with Japan’s Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki, about strengthening ties between the two countries in the near future, and the issues that will inevitably influence that bond: the climate change initiative, trade policy, Toyota, […]
