That Could Be Us Again

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 7, 2011

Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist, and Michael Mandelbaum, director of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins University, discuss their new book: That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. Plus: introducing SchoolBook, a new education project from WNYC and the Times; On The Media’s Brooke Gladstone and her husband Fred Kaplan of Slate discuss how their family experienced 9/11; and the push for wine without additives.  

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