Fleshing Out the Details

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
On today’s Underreported feature, we’ll learn about the controversy surrounding US slaughterhouses that ship horse meat to Europe and Japan for human consumption. Then, Maile Meloy shares her latest novel. And we’ll preview a new movie that imagines an America where the South won the Civil War. Plus, we’ll look back on the cultural and political significance of the 1936 and 1938 boxing matches between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.

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