Politicians Who Stray from the Script, Anthony Weiner's Failed Comeback, a Guide to City Gardening

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 13, 2016

The photo ops, the spectacle, the stage craft... Former "advance man" Josh King gives us an inside look into cultivated political personas and more in, Off Script: An Advance Man's Guide to White House Stagecraft, Campaign Spectacle, and Political Suicide. The new documentary “Weiner” by directors Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg looks at the failed mayoral campaign of former congressman Anthony Weiner. We're talking about rooftop farms, city gardens and urban agriculture on today's Please Explain with Annie Novak and Gerard Lordahl. 

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