TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE
from Wisconsin Public Radio
November 3, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Immigration
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Science of Personality
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Reading
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Immigration
SEGMENT 1:
Stanford historian David Kennedy says the current tide of
Spanish-speaking immigrants into the American southwest
is unprecedented in American history. He tells Judith
Strasser that the country can and should assimilate the
newcomers, but that we might need to re-think our notions
of citizenship.
SEGMENT 2:
Edward Countryman teaches history at Southern Methodist
University. He tells Steve Paulson that American
identity is forged through the confrontations between
various groups in America and their common dedication to
the democratic ideals set out in the Declaration of
Independence. Also, Hounani Trask tells Steve Paulson
why some native Hawaiians want out of the United States.
Trask is director of the Center for Hawaiian Studies at
the University of Hawaii and spokesperson for Ka Lahui-
Hawaii, a Hawaiian sovereignty organization.
SEGMENT 3:
Lisa See traced the history of her family for her book
"On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My
Chinese-American Family." She tells Jim Fleming about
her ancestors and what it's like to have a Chinese soul
and red hair.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
11-10-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Science of Personality
SEGMENT 1:
Frank Sulloway is a research scholar at M.I.T. and the
author of "Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics
and Creative Lives," a book social scientists are hailing
as the most important work since Darwin and Freud.
Sulloway tells Jim Fleming that sibling rivalry not only
shapes personality, it molds the course of human history.
SEGMENT 2:
Science writer Winifred Gallagher tells Steve Paulson
that science may be about to resolve the nature/nurture
debate. Gallagher is the author of "I.D.: How Heredity
and Experience Make You Who You Are." Also, Peter Kramer
- clinical professor of psychiatry at Brown University
and the author of "Listening to Prozac," tells Judith
Strasser that personality can be affected by drugs and
that he's worried about the ethical implications.
SEGMENT 3:
Jungian analyst James Hillman thinks the scientists have
it all wrong. He tells Steve Paulson that our task in
life is to find our particular calling and gives examples
of several people who did. Hillman's latest book is "The
Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
11-10-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Reading
SEGMENT 1
Writer and film critic David Denby at the age of 48
returned to his alma mater, Columbia University, to re-
experience its required courses in the Western classics.
He tells Judith Strasser what he and his fellow students
made of it all. Denby's book about the experience is
"Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf
and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World."
SEGMENT 2:
Writer, editor and essayist Alberto Manguel tells Steve
Paulson about his personally annotated tour through
literature with Jorge Luis Borges, the blind Argentinian
author for whom he read as a young man. Manguel says the
history of writing is also the history of reading. His
new book is "A History of Reading." Also, Arthur Krystal
is a writer and was a professional book reviewer until he
decided to stop reading. He tells Jim Fleming why he
abandoned the literary life. Krystal's essay "Closing the
Books" appeared in the March '96 issue of Harpers.
SEGMENT 3:
Children's author Susan Cooper tells Steve Paulson what
reading does for children and that she writes what she
needs to write and lets the publisher worry about who the
book is for. Cooper has won several awards for her "Dark
Is Rising" series and has just published "Dreams and
Wishes," a collection of essays on writing for children.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
11-10-C.
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