Rebuilding at Ground Zero; Peter von Ziegasar's Memoir; "Short Term 12"; "The Butler"

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 16, 2013

Urban anthropologist Elizabeth Greenspan talks about the tension between commerce and commemoration at Ground Zero. Peter von Ziegesar talks about growing up among Long Island’s Gilded Age families and becoming the keeper of his homeless, schizophrenic step-brother. Then, the director and the star of the film “Short Term 12,” about the employees of a facility for at-risk teens. And director Lee Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong discuss their new film, “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” about a black man who worked at the White House over the course of eight administrations, covering much of the civil rights era.

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