Today, Isaac Shapiro joins Leonard in conversation about living in Japan during World War II
Isaac Shapiro was in his early teenage years when he experienced the American fireboming of Japan firsthand in the early 1940s, as he describes in his autobiography “Edokko: Growing Up a Foreigner in Wartime Japan.” With World War II suddenly at their doorstep, Isaac’s family was forced to move from city to city in the war-torn nation. After US troops began their Japanese occupation, he was hired at the age of 14 to be an interpreter for a U.S. Marine Colonel from Arkansas, a job that led him on a circuitous path to America.
Today, Leonard is joined by James Beard Award-winning baker Jim Lahey . After noticing he couldn’t find bread in New York like the beautiful,...
Leonard’s guest today, Susannah Drake, talks about environmentally conscious design. Since founding DLANDstudio in 2005, Susannah Drake has worked on projects ranging in scale...
Today Leonard talks with Carter Strickland of The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that was founded in San Francisco in 1972, which...