Trent Lott and Tom Daschle on Partisan Politics, B.Smith on Living with Alzheimer's

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 29, 2016

Today's show is a rebroadcast from interviews that originally aired on January 20, 2016 and March 15, 2016. Former senators Trent Lott and Tom Daschle urge compromise and cooperation in order to fix our broken political system in Crisis Point. Celebrity chef and entrepreneur B. Smith and her husband Dan Gasby talk about their life together after B.'s Alzheimer's diagnosis. Hanya Yanagihara discusses her acclaimed novel "A Little Life," which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Thomas Frank's latest book takes a critical look at why the Democratic Party hasn’t done more to advance the causes of the middle class.   

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