Unlocking the Past

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Attorney and author Brandt Goldstein looks back at a group of Yale Law students that waged a battle against the US government in the early 1990s. Ray Brescia, one of the students involved, joins him to discuss the case. Then, Zadie Smith tells us about her new novel, On Beauty. Next, John Berendt (author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) turns his attention to Venice with The City of Falling Angels. Finally, Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon’s first wife, tells us what it was like being married to a Beatle from 1962 to 1969.

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