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The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, April 11, 2005
  • In My Backyard

    "Desperate Housewives" is just the latest to offer up a depiction of the "seamy" side of suburban life. Writer D.J. Waldie takes issue with that view in his memoir of the California working class tract development where he grew up, and lives to this day.

Filibusting

Glenn Reynolds, Writes the blog, Instapundit and is a law professor at the University of Tennessee
- on the continuing senate fight over judicial nominations, progress in Iraq
» Instapundit
and
Dante Chinni, Political Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and senior associate at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, on the continuing senate fight over judicial nominations, progress in Iraq
» More on Dante Chinni

Open Phones

call in for Catholic listeners

In My Backyard

D. J. Waldie, writer, Public Information Officer of the city of Lakewood since 1978 and author of the soon-to-be reissued, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (W.W.Norton, April 18, 2005)
- on his memoir of his working class suburb
» More on D.J. Waldie
and
Rosalyn Baxandall Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of American Studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and co-author with Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (Basic Books, 2001)
- on Long Island suburban development
and
Robert Beuka, Assistant professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York and author, SuburbiaNation : Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
» More on SuburbiaNation
and
Tom Suozzi Nassau County Executive (D)
- on his vision for a "new suburbia"
» Tom Suozzi

Housing Crunch

Julia Vitullo-Martin Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Director of the Center for Rethinking Development at the Manhattan Insitute
- on budget cuts to HUD that will decrease day-to day operations of urban housing authorities
» Julia Vitullo-Martin
and
Alyssa Katz Editor of City Limits
- on budget cuts to HUD which will decrease day-to-day operations of urban housing authorities
» City Limits

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