Power Plays

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
In War and the American Presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger offers historical perspective on the Bush administration’s foreign policy strategies, and situates the doctrine of pre-emptive war within the context of presidential power throughout American history. Next, Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine, discusses The Truth About the Drug Companies, her indictment of the pharmaceutical industry’s practices. Then, we’ll speak to Susanna Clarke, whose 800-page fantasy novel Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, has been drawing comparisons to the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and Jane Austen. And biographer Deborah Jowitt uncovers the personal and professional life of legendary choreographer Jerome Robbins.

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