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The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 2, 2012

MIT economist Simon Johnson talks about the national debt. Pulitzer Prize-winner Marilynne Robinson joins us to talk about her celebrated novel Housekeeping for the latest installment of our Book Club. The BBC’s A History of the World in 100 Objects continues with a carved life-like Ife Head from medieval Africa. Plus, Matt Taibbi joins us for this week’s Backstory segment about the rocky situation at Bank of America.

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