Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard’s guest is Miriam Pawel, author of “The Browns Of California.”
Pawel, the author of ‘The Crusades of Cesar Chavez,’ bills her family saga as a ‘lens through which to tell a unique history of the 31st state,’ but it does much more. Her engaging narrative of the politics, ideas and policies of the two Edmund Browns illuminates the sea change in the nation’s politics in the last half of the 20th century.” – Lisa McGirr, New York Times Book Review
The topic today is the complex and often troubled history of the Environmental Protection Agency with Robert Hargrove, former director of the agency’s National...
Prize-winning concert pianist and exceptional raconteur James Irsay makes music exciting! On today’s show Leonard interviews WBAI show host James Irsay! James specializes in...
Today, Leonard’s guest is Andrew Cockburn, of Harpers On The Policing Of America Andrew Cockburn writes the Letters From Washington column for Harper’s magazine....