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March 10, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Conservatives
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Wilderness/Mountains
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Feminism
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Conservatives
SEGMENT 1:
David Brooks, senior editor of "The Weekly Standard" and editor
of an anthology called "Backward and Upward: The New
Conservative Writing," talks with Steve Paulson about what it
means to be a conservative in American politics today.
SEGMENT 2:
Sociologist Sara Diamond talks with Judith Strasser about the
rise of the right in recent American politics. Diamond is the
author of "Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Poltical
Power in the United States." Also, left-wing rabble rouser (and
proud of it!) Alexander Cockburn tells Steve Paulson that
right-wingers who fear domination by a secret world government
have a point. Cockburn is a columnist for "The Nation."
SEGMENT 3:
Robert Goldberg teaches history at the University of Utah and
is the author of a ne3w biography of Barry Goldwater. Goldberg
tells Jim Fleming how Goldwater paved the way for today's
conservatives. Goldberg's book is called "Barry Goldwater."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
03-10-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Wilderness/Mountains
SEGMENT 1:
John Krakauer, contributing editor to "Outside" magazine, tells
Steve Paulson the story of Chris McCandless - an experienced
outdoorsman who perished in the Alaskan wilderness while on a
spiritual quest. Krakauer tells the full story in his book
"Into the Wild."
SEGMENT 2:
Historian Stephen Ambrose tells Jim Fleming stories about the
Lewis and Clark expedition. They went in search of the
Northwest Passage and found the Garden of Eden, and grizzly
bears. Ambrose's new biography of Meriwether Lewis is called
"Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the
Opening of the American West."
SEGMENT 3:
Historian Simon Schama makes the case in his book "Landscape
and Memory" that "nature" is a product of the human
imagination. He tells Judith Strasser the various things that
mountains have meant to mankind and finds the source and
inspiration for Mount Rushmore (well-oiled and wearing a lion
skin) at the court of Alexander the Great.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
03-10-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Feminism
SEGMENT 1
Gloria Steinem tells Judith Strasser that young women take
feminism's victories for granted and that she doesn't mind.
Steinem is an icon of the women's movement - the author of
several books and the founder of "Ms" Magazine. Also, Carolyn
Heilbrun tells Judith Strasser that Steinem is a problem for
biographers because she is exactly what she appears to be - a
woman committed to social justice who has worked tirelessly for
forty years on behalf of women and other dispossessed people.
Heilbrun's biography of Steinem is called "The Education of A
Woman."
SEGMENT 2:
Rebecca Walker (daughter of Alice Walker) is a contributing
editor for "Ms" Magazine and the editor of a new collection of
essays called "To Be Real." Walker tells Steve Paulson that
she has an inclusive definition of feminism and thinks young
women are more concerned with being good human beings than
empowered women. Also, historian Elizabeth Fox-Genovese calls
herself a feminist but is critical of the traditional feminist
elite. She tells Steve Paulson why. Fox-Genovese teaches at
Emory University and is the author of "Feminism Is Not the
Story of My Life."
SEGMENT 3:
Anthropologist Maria Lepowsky tells Jim Fleming about the
sexually egalitarian society on Vanatinai, a small island
southeast of New Guinea where men's and women's roles are
equally valued. Lepowsky teaches at the University of
Wisconsin and is the author of "Fruit of the Motherland:
Gender in an Egalitarian Society."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
03-10-C.
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